Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Back in 2009 and 2010, I experienced a few Dell business execution issues. I wrote the article on a Friday afternoon and pushed the article to Fast Company that evening to be published the following week. The article wasn’t mean-spirited or ranting—it simply pointed out areas where Dell had stumbled and could improve.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I seized this opportunity to try an experiment in both client service and employee retention, by focusing on senior level staff first, and combining that with a flexible and healthy working environment that is not a mainstay in the public relations world. None of us though that on Sept 1, 2010, our lives would be changed forever.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Back in 2009 and 2010, I experienced a few Dell business execution issues. I wrote the article on a Friday afternoon and pushed the article to Fast Company that evening to be published the following week. The article wasn’t mean-spirited or ranting—it simply pointed out areas where Dell had stumbled and could improve.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. Marketing develops a complete marketing communications plan, provides Sales with a full complement of support material, and starts the public relations bandwagon rolling.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

It was started by American Express in 2010 to encourage people to shop at small businesses. All snark aside, Air BnB is a great company that really is helping relations around the world in its own way. Have you heard about these Uber awkward PR blunders? You can check out a list of deals here. billion was grossed in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. Yet our customers said they got their company and product information from only three publications: MacWorld, MacUser and MacWeek. What did they think the leaders most important attributes were?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Cut Your Words: 5 Articles on Concise Writing – [link]. PR for Startups – [link]. Great article on focus – [link]. Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Great article on focus – [link]. PSFK list of most relevant brands of 2010. Writer 2.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Cut Your Words: 5 Articles on Concise Writing – [link]. PR for Startups – [link]. Great article on focus – [link]. Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Great article on focus – [link]. PSFK list of most relevant brands of 2010. Writer 2.0

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The only difference between us and the Internet bubble that would follow was that we did branding on the cheap by creating our image with public relations, whilethe dot-bomb era was to do it by spending enormous sums on advertising (those large venture rounds had to get spent somewhere.) Hindsight is wonderful. Order Here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

The State of Web Development 2010 – [link]. Logo Design Trends 2010 – [link]. 190+ Useful Fresh Articles for Web Designers – [link]. The connection between a logo and the brand behind the logo – [link]. Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers – [link]. 25+ Free Vector World Maps (.ai,eps

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

2010 Fortune 500: The top 10 most valuable corporate logo properties – [link]. 4 reasons why PR firms are taking over social media – [link]. Nice article about crowdSPRING – in Japanese (I roughly translated). How To Create Outstanding Modern Infographics – [link]. Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You now have a public relations nightmare on your hand. However, given that it is a well-understood norm, it gives you a bit of an edge in the PR battle should someone decide to just drop a 0-day on you.). Waaaaay back in 2010, Mongrel and Rails had a bit of a compatibility issue , and I solved it via a monkeypatch.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. There are multiple ways of doing things and as your article suggests, passion is vital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Lessons Learned From StartupBootcamp 2010 – [link]. False Memories: great article to help next time wife says “but honey, I already told you!&# – [link]. Being pompous and learning from mistakes – [link]. Why You’re Going to Hire the Wrong Designer – [link]. So how massive is Google anyway? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Great article about what you can learn from a pizza business’s company culture – [link]. Good advice from @ryangraves about need to be bold to chase startup dreams – [link]. How Virtual Teams Rock – [link]. Good read: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? – [link]. Positive or negative motivation?

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