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I have never seen a board of advisors work after the initial few meetings. I’m sure there are cases where they are managed well and it works out, but for the most part, my experience is that any initial engagement and excitement wanes and the value diminishes fairly quickly. I think that the reason this [...] In its second year, the Amgen Tour of California, the first big race of the professional cycling season, attracted some of the the best teams and riders from around the world. The ToC is an 8-day, 650+ mile race through California from north to south. The US-based Discovery team (Lance Armstrong’s old team) led the pack, [...] Moving from its everyday world of lusting after and reporting on shiny new technology to taking a stand on what is good and evil, one of my favorite gadget sites, Gizmodo, has declared March as Boycott the RIAA month. This isn’t the first time that Gizmodo has railed against the RIAA. As they stated before [...] I haven’t done a book review in a while, but having just finished You Suck: A Love Story, I had to write a few sentences about it. While I don’t think it’s nearly as good as A Dirty Job, or Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Moore’s irreverent writing is still [...] Brad Feld has a great post this week titled, Don’t Be Casual, in which he talks about a company in his portfolio that did a “casual” presentation to a VC firm, only to realize that the company’s idea of casual didn’t match the VC firm’s. In the end, “the meeting was a disaster.” Brad [...] One of the greatest challenges in direct sales is having your customer commit time to listening to your pitch. Good direct sales people work hard to eliminate any and all barriers to such a commitment because even the most compelling pitch won’t get you anywhere if it’s not heard. One tool for getting [...] The first time I was presented with an opportunity to join a board, I was so flattered that I agreed to join without really considering whether it was right for me to do so. That is, right for the company and right for me. Luckily, it was a strong board and while I don’t feel [...] One of the big challenges that young companies face is how to let the world know about their great product or service. When the company is well funded and the founding team has the wisdom to plan for their big marketing push, there are generally funds available to run all sorts of marketing programs. Most often, though, the [...] A few days ago, I wrote a post titled, Caught in a Geek’s Gravitational Field. The truly unimportant post just outlined the geeky stuff that I have been working on and the fact that the mess I have been making has gotten me into an infinite loop of debugging, fixing and re-breaking many things [...] Yesterday’s Guardian Unlimited had a very funny article by Charlie Brooker titled, “I Hate Macs.” In the article, Mr. Brooker pokes fun at the latest ad campaign by Apple in which two actors portray the human incarnations of a PC and Mac. From the article: “I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I [...] |
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