Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Interviewing is art, and perhaps the most important thing you could do for your company. My post with tips on hiring web analysts ( Hiring? What Works: Fresh blood or old hands? Experience or Novicity? ) generated lots of comments [25!] and emails. The most common request was for tips on how to pick the right employer, I think that's a reflection that this is a buyers market [I promise to write that post just as soon as I can].

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I've been remiss in posting to this blog. Very busy on a couple interesting start-ups. More on them in a couple months. In any case, I went by Lunch 2.0 in Santa Monica last Friday. It was way too crowded (250 people in a tiny space). But saw a few folks I hadn't seen in a while and connected with a couple of new people. I saw that Ben Kuo wrote about it: More networking events His comment that the turn-out suggested that there likely would be more of these is probably true.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

I am definitely the first one to understand that there is no free lunch on the web. At the end of the day, someone has to pay for all of the great services and content out there. To boot, I am a big believer in the ad-driven model of content. To this point, there is a battle being fought at every web content company on a daily basis between product manangement, engineering, and ad sales.

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Six Apart have released an iPhone friendly version for their blogging platform, TypePad. If you don’t have an iPhone yet (or live in unsupported regions such as Europe), you can give it a whirl here.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Sep 11, 2007. CenterNetworks NYC Event 9/27. Allen Stern of CenterNetworks is hosting an event, a "mixer" on September 27 th. CenterNetworks , like AlleyInsider , seem to be a new breed of content related sites and communities that, aside from a particular focus on the New York area (excellent!

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Over three years ago, I wrote a lengthy post on how to run a great board meeting. And after having been at a few board meetings in the past couple of weeks, I was reminded again of one of the most important rules of running a great board meeting – be prepared and make sure there are no surprises for you and for the board members. Here is an excerpt from that post: 1.

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