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Books I Read On My Q214 Vacation

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On day three, when I’m not looking at email, anything on the web, or checking my phone, I just breathe deeply and say “wow I needed this vacation.” Amy reminds me that I say that on day three of each of our quarterly weeks off the grid. ” Oh – and I decided to get over my fear of horses.

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Dear VCs: What Happens When Your Words And Your Actions Don’t Match

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This morning I ended up on an email thread about this. It could be PR, it could be speeches, or writing, or systematic campaigns over a period of time about themselves and their businesses. And, as our email exchange demonstrates, it lingers. I’m going to anonymize it, but you’ll get the point.

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Is LinkedIn Intro Good, Bad, or Impossible?

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By this point I had sent emails to several of my friends who were experts in the email / SMTP / IMAP / security ecosystem and was already getting feedback that generally trended negative. Scott co-founded Postini and a bunch of email stuff at Google after Google acquired Postini in 2007. Details on their approach here ([link].

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Why A New Startup Shouldn’t Have a Marketing Budget

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However, it’s wired into the DNA of the business, not an extra thing that is attached on, like it used to be in the 1980′s and 1990′s as “marketing&# , “PR&# , “marcomm&# , etc. I hate traditional marketing and have always resisted it early in the life of a new company.

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