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