Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

So do advisory boards really add value? in total and you’re determined to get value out of the group. If your valuation is already too high then seek approval to let them invest at a price lower than the current value. And if you decide to have one how do you best implement it? Too much effort.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself. What keeps you up at night? Getting new projects is tough. I can see that.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Since I have two blogs, here are a few from both: Events Should Be Money Well Spent Seems to echo some of my concerns about the value of events. And while I'm on the subject of your blog, you've got great stuff, but what are some of your best posts that I should go look at?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 16, 2009

I'm a big fan of LinkedIn and think that there's incredible value in the site. By convention, tags can be used to look like folders in that all things tagged with the same value can be shown under that "folder" And by convention you can make them hierarchical, but most often you don't.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I really enjoy his blog and I can't wait to mix it up with him some more on the value of Hollywood money / connections. And by making it open, then it provides value to other people and hopefully to the broader network. There were some suggestions in the LinkedIn group, but nothing that made me think … wow, that would be great.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Twitter is just too sound bite-ish to get a deep window into what someone values and how he/she thinks and writes (while a blog gives you exactly that). In fact when we job candidates I’m way more interested in seeing their blog than I am their resume because a resume can be faked.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2009

And if the person is truly adding value then you can always extend it later. In these cases I recommend that you make the position time bound, as in the person can be a board observer for 12 months or 18 months at which point the observer rights automatically cease. I know other people seem to have less angst on this topic than I do.

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