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by jdp23 16y ago
Facebook's got over 500,000,000 users. None of Google's social efforts so far have been particularly successful and some have been disastrous. So even though I agree Facebook's over-hyped and the valuations are optimistic, I still think G
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by jdp23 16y ago
Here's the full indictment: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/schein...
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by jdp23 16y ago
agreed. there's a lot you can learn from "business as war" analogies -- when I was doing competitive strategy at Microsoft I worked a lot with Robert Greene, who sent me an early copy of a chapter from his "33 strategies of war" about how
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by jdp23 16y ago
Totally agreed with the similarities between MS' situation in 2006 and Google's situation now.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Agreed that Google's facing a serious threat and that a CEO approaches things differently in that situation than when everything's booming. I'm not sure about the peacetime/wartime stuff though. First of all if you want to use military an
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by jdp23 16y ago
Great initiative. Agree on crawl before you sprint -- that said, please put Seattle on the list as well!
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Guide Analytics Wins Spring 2011 NWEN First Look Forum(nwen.org)
2 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
Also, "experience" is (a) inherently age-biased and (b) often somewhat subjective, so prone to assessor's bias. An example where experience is subjective is how to count something in an adjacent field -- businesspeople going into politics
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by jdp23 16y ago
The key here is "You need a mix of people with differing perspectives but shared values." to which I would also add differing demographic backgrounds. As the article says, you need at team that is cohesive because of its differences.
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by jdp23 16y ago
The article's title "The VC Presentation Grader" is more accurate; the elevator pitch is just the first of 16 items on the list ending with "is this greed-inducing". It's a good list of the kinds of questions most investors will have in alt
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Tech's Top Women Under 30(it-jobs.fins.com)
2 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
looking forward to the post ... seems like a great direction for LaunchRock to go.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Excellent point. Competitive intelligence goes both ways. The skills and attitudes I had learned in the computer security field were very useful doing competitive strategy as well.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Good article, and great to see Qworky used as an example! In general though I think competitive intelligence is often overrated. Certainly there are times that it matters -- Mikal's example in the article about whether or not a company cou
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by jdp23 16y ago
Indeed. Even when people bring it up :-)
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by jdp23 16y ago
ooops, yes, that's what I meant to link to. Thanks -- and thanks for mentioning it!
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by jdp23 16y ago
> Someone quoted a highlight from a linked article because it was humorous, and you could have missed it.... I may well the guy you're talking about who was berated and then downvoted -- even though two others besides you had posted tha
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San Francisco to require ID scans, photos of everyone who goes to a venue(boingboing.net)
6 points by jdp23 16y ago|2 comments
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Equal Pay Day: Pay Equity and Startups(talesfromthe.net)
2 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
I got several downvotes for responding here. Another response pointing out why my comment was useful got a bunch of downvotes and has since been deleted. Both of these posts futhered the conversation and were within site guidelines. To m
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by jdp23 16y ago
Personally I'm usually interested when others extract key quotes from the article. So I do the same.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Here's yesterday's thread on "The US Government Keeps Harassing a UW Researcher Who Speaks for WikiLeaks" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430090
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by jdp23 16y ago
"Let me guess. UnXis doesn't want Groklaw to retire?"
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by jdp23 16y ago
TL;DR summary: after Microsoft got a big government contract, Google sued. In their filing, they claimed that Google Apps for Government has FISMA certification. DOJ says no: Google Apps Premier has FISMA certification, but Google Apps fo
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by jdp23 16y ago
Fair enough. But from a positioning perspective, Diaspora's got a lot more visibility than Appleseed; so it's important for Michael to highlight the differentiation.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Great approach, and kudos to you for going this route! It's a very clean look, and a great base to build on.
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by jdp23 16y ago
agreed, definitely try to lead with one that has less facebook-y and diaspora-y colors
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by jdp23 16y ago
There's an art to knowing when to move on. Congrats to PJ and kudos to groklaw!
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by jdp23 16y ago
great example. and the net result is they know have an ex-Microsoft person running social.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Agreed. If Google's incredibly talented and distributed employee base can pull their networks in to whatever their new social initiatives are, it's a huge aset to them in the battle with Facebook and everybody else for "who owns social".

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