eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 24 2006 | business, blogs, Seth Godin, marketing
Some pretty funny development cliches which are appropos to software startups. My favorites are:
Quoted: Let's do a focus group, they'll decide. A focus group is supposed to focus you, not them. It's supposed to lay out ideas and issues that mean little to the group and plenty to you. If you're not prepared to focus, better to not go.
Quoted: We need a bigger marketing department. Probably, you need everyone in the organization to do the marketing... from scratch. More brochures aren't the answer.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2008 | blogs, Carlos Segura, Chicago, design, business
Quoted: I went to the Seed 3 Conference in Chicago. This is the first in a series of posts about the presentations I saw there. Carlos Segura is the founder of Chicago-based Segura Inc and runs a whole host of websites and commercial interests centering around his design expertise and passions. At Seed 3, Carlos took the crowd through a history of his businesses
ShareViewed: 2 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | Peter Drucker, business, books, blogs, thepugetnews
A website and blog in support of a new book on the well known manager, Peter Drucker.
Quoted: Delivers keen insights into business in the twenty-first century, while distilling Drucker's advice to management into interrogative guidance on how to strategize and triumph in this new environment
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | blogs, business, books, thepugetnews
A great collection of "top 5 business books" lists from noted authors and business leaders.
Quoted: Hundreds of business books are published each year. Chances are at least one has the answers you're looking for. But how to find it? U.S. News spoke with 14 leaders from all walks of business life—from academics to entrepreneurs to corporate execs—about the five books they consider indispensable reading for managers.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 03 2007 | business, blogs, Seth Godin, startup, marketing
Seth Godin. Clear. Smart,
Quoted: A lot of organizations decide to skip the rice and beans and studio apartment step. They decide to "go big or stay home." More often than not, they end up going home.
ShareViewed: 13 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 26 2007 | business, blogs, Amazon.com, thepugetnews, search, citation
Seth Godin found one of the niftier new Amazon features - a pagerank for non-virtual pages!
Quoted: You can see which books cite a book you like.
Quoted: Try doing that at the local library...
ShareViewed: 3 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 01 2007 | software, business, product manager, funny, blogs
The cranky product manager is a pretty funny blog where a product manager gets to unleash her alter-ego upon her foes.
ShareViewed: 29 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 29 2007 | business, art, blogs, PIcasso, Pablo Picasso
I love this little story about Pablo Picasso in Seth Godin's blog.
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eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2006 | business, blogs, marketingA great post from Seth Godin which is quite appropos to our cuurent dialogs.
ShareViewed: 8 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 19 2006 | business, marketing, blogs, Seth Godin
More on the value of tweaking from Seth Godin. This is a good post. As with most things, the ideal he speaks about is right on but the reality of these tweaks (and measuring them) CAN be much more complex. At Amazon, sometimes things that were "obviously" better would take months to come out because to instrument all of the metrics that needed to be captured to provie it was way more work than the actual code being altered.
Quoted: The opportunity, as the web becomes more sophisiticated and CSS gets implemented more often, is to figure out how to tweak a page while it's running and get 2% better response from that page. 2% isn't a lot--until you multiply it by a million page views.
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