Category: Media & Technology
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2022 Predictions
2022 Predictions I’m joining in on the predictions fun, and offering some of my predictions for 2022. I find predictions are most interesting if they have some objective measure associated with them to avoid the “this kind of happened” moment when looking back. I tried to provide predictions with some type of observable, measurable outcome…
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Electronic Objects and the future of the web
Sometimes the device is dumb glass, driven by the cloud. And sometime the cloud is dumb storage, driven by the device. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) May 27, 2014 I’ve been having the ‘dumb glass or smart device’ conversation with a number of friends lately, and everyone seems to have a really strong opinion on this…
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This Week – 01.13.13
– CES was this past week and everyone already wrote about it, streamed it and talked about it. I liked Tomasz Tunguz’s summary – it’s short but insightful. Read it if you’re looking for a quick recap of what happened and what to look out for in the next year. Link – Someone hacked Snapchat…
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Managing Startups: Objective-Key-Results (OKRs)
Having spent the past year working with and incredible team on a product I love, I thought I’d share a management tool that we adopted from Google called Objective-Key-Results (OKRs). OKRs are a quarterly panning tool that help you and your team focus priorities and align around a common set of objectives. Before I lay…
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Google Glass Comes Close
After a week with Google Glass, I’m reminded of that Bob Uecker line from Major League “Juuust a bit outside!” (here’s a clip with the line if that was too esoteric.) I’m generally excited about Glass, and I loved a few things about it. But I struggled to find opportunities to use it. Currently, Glass feels like a…
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Analytics Won’t Get You To Product Market Fit
In the new world of big data, everyone in the startup community seems obsessed with collecting data and making data-driven decisions. For the most part, this is a healthy obsession. New analytics platforms like KISS, Mixpanel and Localytics are providing great tools for product managers and marketers to better understand what’s happening inside their apps…
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Get An MBA, But Not Until You’re Useful
As an MBA working in early stage tech, I’m ambivalent about the current conversation in the community about the value of these degrees. On one hand, I’ve met enough MBA founding teams to understand where the vitriol comes from, but I also believe that my graduate business education has been the most rewarding investment I’ve…
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Content Is King Again
The never-ending power struggle between content and distribution seems to be writing a new chapter around the film and tv worlds. Some very big things have already happened in the first quarter of this year in the media business. These are just a few happenings that have rocked the media biz recently: – Comcast speeds the…
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Mobile Advertising Sucks and That Needs to Change
I was not surprised to see a recent report from Trademob finding that 40% of mobile ad clicks are either accidental or fraudulent. When I interned for Jerry Neumann, he had me take a look at the mobile vs. display ecosystem, which I did. Back then I was interested in the differences between mobile and desktop traffic…
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Signal In the Social Noise
Eric Schmidt famously said in 2010 that every two days we generate more data that we have up to 2003. To clarify: dawn of civilization -> 2003 = X amount of data this past weekend = X amount of data That’s mind numbing to think about. It’s also a huge problem, because most this data…
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