YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 5, 2016
We begin our journey back to Albuquerque. At the same time, she also insured that she did not over-deliver or waste product or services. Kathy has taken things that I have been preaching for years and demonstrates the power of having a good product, surrounded by attention and attentive service. Very touristy. Pretty smooth.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 5, 2015
What I learned was that Chamath''s career path was the product of three things: First, being really good at what you do, obviously. Oh, and in between those two jobs I was a product manager for a year for a product that didn''t really go anywhere. Second, was taking risks. He didn''t aim to become the head of AIM.
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Up and Running
APRIL 29, 2013
Ask any marketer to explain his trade and he will say that it is all about placing the right product in the right place, at the right price and at the right time. Do you really understand you products and services? Is your product or service market-ready? Is your product or service market-ready? Simple, eh? Direct sales?
Up and Running
OCTOBER 22, 2019
How should you launch your product or services? . For instance, instead of building a brand that appeals to women age 24 to 48 in the southwest United States, you’re building a brand for Liz Applewood, age 32, a manager at a retail clothing store in Albuquerque. . What should your business name be? .
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 10, 2014
Your client in Albuquerque is always moody. Your communication — productive or unproductive, healthy or dysfunctional — is a major factor in how successful you will be in any job. That’s not what will endear you to your new colleagues. Let difficult people win. Your coworker Jane loves to argue. It’s really all you can do.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 3, 2017
The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. I believe we had as much firepower as any of our peers, but we were in the hinterlands working on products not very exciting but indeed very useful. Deals were getting done there.
paulgraham.com
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
Microsoft cant have seemed very impressive when it was just a couple guys in Albuquerque writing Basic interpreters for a market of a few thousand hobbyists (as they were then called), but in retrospect that was the optimal path to dominating microcomputer software. Its just a more extreme version of designing a robust and elegant product.
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