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Comment on How to Run a Startup Board Meeting by Chip Correra

Chip Correra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:33:02 +0000

Great write up Andy.

It is super important to provide the last minute data update to catch the BOD up on any late breaking details that make their way into the mix during the time that you send out the preliminary package and the meeting. Especially if portfolio companies, or the VC themselves, are in your customer list - because if that data is obviously not accurate, it shatters their confidence in all your data.

Comment on Dropping Friends by Amy

Amy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:09:59 +0000

I agree. Sometimes you just have to eliminate some dead weight. I am doing the same on my Twitter and unfortunately you are one who is not following back, so I have to cut you. Nothing personal. Best of luck.

Comment on Dropping Friends by Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:26:40 +0000

I’ve found the ‘friend lists’ to be a great solution. Create a list for ‘acquaintances’ and give no permissions to it. Put all the trimmed people there.

Comment on Dropping Friends by bijan sabet

bijan sabet — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:18:43 +0000

I don’t have any regrets about trimming back my facebook “friends”

but it did create a number of awkward situations

Comment on Managing the Household by Rich Shea

Rich Shea — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:33:09 +0000

From yesterday’s news, seems maybe next year you could do that all on Google Wave, except the actual shredding (and once everyone’s on smart phones…)

Comment on Private Wikis as the collective family note file by Managing the Household at blog.payne.org

Managing the Household at blog.payne.org — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:50:18 +0000

[...] wiki (access controlled). The family note card file I’ve written about before — not well formatted or organized, but all the info is in there and searchable: [...]

Comment on Inflexible Process meets Immovable Software by Ed Marshall

Ed Marshall — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:34:00 +0000

Great conversation.

The real challenge we’ve found as a SaaS - how do you say “no” to an enterprise client willing to write a big check for some “must-have” features.

We’ve found the real product management challenge to be here - how do you satisfy the 800 pound gorilla requirement in a way that more generically enhances your product for most other customers.

Ideally the customers will migrate towards standard business practices, but most vendors don’t have the stature to mandate such process changes. Thankfully, over time, most companies do migrate towards the standard best-practices, making software development manageable.

Comment on URL Shorteners, WTF? by Chip Correra

Chip Correra — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:53:22 +0000

Because betaworks believes that real time streaming is disruptive, and bit.ly is important infrastructure to social distribution

Here is the un-shortening explaination:
http://www.borthwick.com/weblog/2009/04/19/699/

Having said this, seems like most could build a URL shortener for themselve in a few hours, including all the click analytics.

Comment on Inflexible Process meets Immovable Software by Chip Correra

Chip Correra — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:28:17 +0000

Agreed. And there is an even worse version of this, the let’s build a completely custom solution for which there are plenty of great, already available, free solutions for 95% of what I need. While I talk with new hire candidates, I hear countless tails of building custom content management system to drive web site, application. No good answers yet to my standard, “Why?” question.

Comment on iPod Touch: Finally Getting Some Respect by sam liss

sam liss — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:41:32 +0000

coincidentally, i was in the apple store the other day dealing with an ipod issue. i happened to ask the guy helping me which ipod was most popular, he said the touch, by a wide margin. when i told him i was shocked, he said it provides everything kids want: a great game platform, wireless messaging, and - - of course - - music.