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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Madoff would make bad pavement material.
He's a bad guy. I think he should spend all that time working out the accounting to get the money back. Since it won't work, it's like Tantalus pushing the rock up hill. That would be justice, if he had to do it forever.
Death to Madoff!
I know he's committed the financial crime of the young century, but I still find some of vengeance porn around the Bernie Madoff sentencing a bit off-putting. There's a bloodthirsty quality to the digital mob, as if Madoff were the American economic equivalent of Guy Fawkes, planting explosives ...
Craig: http://twitter.com/DavidSaranga/statuses/2193462009
This person works with the Israeli Consulate. Just met him at the 140 Characters conference. He can be useful on this topic.
--Howard
Need your advice re microfinance recipients in Palestine West Bank
Hey, I'm working with the folks at LendForPeace.org, they're a microfinance group working exclusively with small business on the West Bank, in conjunction with a Clinton Global Initiative commitment. The deal is that we all can contribute small amounts of cash to help people run businesses and...
HJÖRTUR, I look forward to meeting you at the 140 Characters Conference! Thanks for mentioning me.
Who's Going to the 140 Character Conference?
Jeff Pulver has organized a very interesting conference in New York which he calls the 140 Character Conference. As you may have guessed, it's all about Twitter. There will be a lot of great speakers like Jeff him self, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Brogan, Liz Strauss, Howard Greenstein, myself and loads...
Damon could easily stand in for Katie Couric anytime.
Damon Weaver is my homeboy....
Five things I learned from the intrepid fifth-grade reporter Damon Weaver: 1. Self-promote with confidence and purpose. 2. Seek out a mentor figure if you have questions or need advice. 3. Keep your questions clear and to.the.point. 4. When in doubt, embarrass your crew. Impromptu dance moves ...
Seriously, the strengths of the Alley are that we have exposure to top content creators in publishing, music, financial markets, and TV/Radio. We get our programmers out of Wall St trading firms, so many of them are biased towards real-time and high reliability.
NYC is concentrated, and yet even with all the events, it is sometimes tough for developers, entrepreneurs and resources to get connected.
In NYC it is *very* tough to find firms that are willing to take equity in new ventures in exchange for services - much more likely to happen in the valley.
Also in the Valley, it seems somehow easier to assemble a team and start a company, though I don't think there's any barrier in NY - just cultural. More thoughts as I have them.
Alley vs Valley - the time has come
I gave in. I caved. Brady, Jen and I were chatting at a recent dinner in SF, and the SF vs NYC conversation came up as it so often does in my life - and, well - after a few drinks my resolve was weakened. Finally after four years of various ad-hoc conversations among friends from both coast...
Why does it have to be "Versus?" Can't we all just get along?
Just tell them shut up about content and that they aren't the only ones who know how to program Ruby on Rails. :-)
And in NYC we lose more money on mortgage-backed securities in a week than they raise in all the C rounds of a year.
Alley vs Valley - the time has come
I gave in. I caved. Brady, Jen and I were chatting at a recent dinner in SF, and the SF vs NYC conversation came up as it so often does in my life - and, well - after a few drinks my resolve was weakened. Finally after four years of various ad-hoc conversations among friends from both coast...
Steve,
Thanks for starting a blog. Great to see your ideas out here.
So, where's the listening? Similar to what Michael Harad says above, what part of your marketing strategy is the channel for customers to tell you what they think? This speaks to fleshing out your statement above "what do they want?"
Any company today going out without a social media component, even something as simple as 'tell us what you think' in a form on the website, is missing out on knowledge that can influence their product/service for the better.
Stop Coding, Start Marketing! Getting Your Positioning Right.
After encouragement from many people, and in particular from Josh Kopelman (whom I have the utmost of respect for and who writes an awesome blog), I am finally blogging. In my blog, I will express my “point of view” on starting and growing companies, technology, venture capital investing, and o...
Well, Deb, how do you really feel about it?
Facebook SocialAds - the missing feature
Nuf said.
Let me know how Social Media Club can help and what I can do personally. I live about 1 hour south of Woodstock and love the town.
I've done my share of un-conference work at this point, and can potentially help you avoid some of the pitfalls while benefiting from the energy.
Woodstock 2.0 Expo
After spending a week with family in up-state New York and with the BlogHer Business conference fresh on the brain...I had an idea. One that I'm excited about and that I hope resonates with others in the Internet community. Woodstock is a town in upstate New York and is best known for what DI...
How about TIVO? I have a broken, 2.5 year old Tivo. I can send it back and for $149 get a reconditioning on it.
OR, the rep told me softly, I can look on their site and get a new reconditioned one for $179 - 150 rebate when I activate it.
Now, should they just send me one for 29 and not make me do the rebate? - YES. But, they did save me 130 dollars for calling. That respects me.
Will you respect me in the morning - take 2
OK - Mark Petrovic rightly points out that I should bring some examples of Companies that respect me....will post some in a few days as I am slammed today. But would love to gather some examples here. So - anyone have some examples to share?
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