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: ... Norway, where a media company's classifieds are thriving
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012...
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Best Tweetdeck feature, next to scheduling: "Block and report for spam". Makes 'em instantly disappear. Hootsuite needs this.
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.@harkador "Advisor is going to put in 1-3 hours per month, board members 5-6 hours per month."
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.@harkador "Be careful about who you put on the board. It's hard to get people off the board."
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.@harkador "Advisors have a really short half life. Board members stay around much longer."
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.@harkador "There's TAM, total addressable market, and SAM, serviceable addressable market."
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.@harkador "Startups are really fun. There is more oxygen in the air."
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.@harkador "If people are just there for the weekly paycheck, you are not going to get the right culture going."
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.@harkador Citing "A players hire A people", "If you are 4 guys in a basement, you are not going to hire the VP of sales for Google"
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.@harkador "One reason we didn't know who the consumers were is because we didn't have a physical manifestation of the product."
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.@harkador adds that Priceline and Netflix may be exceptions.
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.@Harkador "First to market is not enough … most of the successful companies are 4th, 5th, 6th to market"
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.@Harkador "Focus on the business, everything else will fall in line."
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.@harkador: It's really hard to figure out what your business is [but] it makes it easier to talk to your stakeholders/employees/customers
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.@harkador "Your company will survive 1 or 2 direct hits. ... If you have 5 or 6 direct hits, you are probably going to die."
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.@harkador "When you send someone an NDA, they give it to their legal department. … In the meantime, discussions could have been happening"
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.@harkador "There are times when NDAs are important, but most of the time they are just slowing things down, add friction"
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.@harkador "Competitors are good. They make you real. Don't assume you are the only one in the market"
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.@harkador "If you move too slowly, someone is going to go faster than you."
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.@harkador "As your business matures, it's going to take longer to develop things"
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.@harkador "planning doesn't move your business forward at all, unless you have some physical manifestation of your product"
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.@harkador "Go fast for the long haul, and focus … ultimately if you focus, you're going to succeed"
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Brad Harkavy (@harkador) giving CIC presentation, "Management Basics for Emerging Company CEOs"
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RT @
HNTweets
: Tetris Game in 140 Bytes of JavaScript:
https://t.co/ZV1kLx6C
Comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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RT @
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: “#UX is a role that should…find a home within the design of any new media strategy”
http://www.fastcompany.com/1815756...
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RT @
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path
, Ke$ha's "Your love is my drug" is a *terrible* music suggestion for me.
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Great
#Beanpot
at the Gahden tonight. BC pulled off a nice win, 6 secs left in OT.
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Beanpot! 2-2 (at @
tdgarden
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https://path.com/p/3dofXX
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"UX, UI, and MVP ... oh my!"
http://www.ilamont.com/2012...
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At the CIC for @
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