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Ken Berger
San Franhattan
tech entrepreneur and product evangelist
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For my use case and work/lifestyle, the native Google Voice app totally makes this phone (and the 3 other Androids I've had). Apple are total shmucks for not yet approving GV on the iPhone-- that 1 app is enough to lose a user like me.
The Google Phone
In mid December as holiday gifts and cards were arriving daily in our office, I received a gift from Google. It was a Nexus One. I have been using it since that day as my primary phone. In the box was a note from Google asking me to keep quiet about the phone until Jan 5th. Well today is Jan 5th ...
Hey, keep Springsteen out of this! I'd rave about him any day. And I am a hip dude. Dig it?
Don't call me "Dude", dude
A month or two ago, I tweeted about going to an English Beat concert. Instantly I got two responses back: one from @theenglishbeat saying on twitter to me publicly that they look forward to seeing me. The second was an equally public twitter from my 39 year old brother: "You are old, dude". Me.....
This essay, verbatim, would get you admitted to Harvard Business School! Not that you'd necessarily find that useful at this point.
Lifeline: "People are just as happy as they make their minds up to be"
Who said 'people are just as happy as they make their minds up to be?' Abraham Lincoln! Its the single most important sentence and 'lifeline' that anyone has said that has changed my life significantly for the better. Here's a little story around this lifeline. I moved to the USA as soon as ...
Spot on, as usual, DMC.
An issue here is most entreps can't separate themselves enough from their offering to take such constructive criticism, at least not in real time and in public. It's like saying their kid is ugly.
But as long as you were rudely interjecting, and telling them to try again, what about instead taking at least one and with their permission, say, "here's how *I* would do it..."?
In fact, such a before and after example as an adjunct to this post might help, eg: "how they said it" vs "the Pitch the Problem way to say it", etc.
Your SOLUTION is Not My PROBLEM
QUICK !!! i'm a VC. you're an entrepreneur. we're in an elevator, and you've got 30 seconds. GO. ok, if your pitch began with "we're building an X for Y", then guess what YOU FAIL. yeah, i know in an earlier presentation i said "we're X for Y" works well for short-hand notation. but...
I've seen you ride and can attest it's 1 of your many skills !
Test Ride
Trying out my schoolfriend Neil Bunn's chopper. He's customized this 30 year old air cooled in-line 550cc four banger.
On the structural elements of this post:
The post is remarkable because you can the gist of the message from reading *only* the headings. The second sentence/subtitle in italics could actually be all you need to see (so really the whole article could have been Twittered!)
Then, the headings communicate the story if you don't have time to read, don't know Auren (altho probably no one is in that category), etc.
More writings should be like this.
tip: offer the MacBook Air to the biz types, but not to the super-developers-- they will all want a MacBook instead. I'm finding this out myself.
Why hiring is paradoxically harder in a downturn
Noise goes up but the quality stays the same Hiring is always hard. The hardest thing to do at a company is the recruiting and hiring. It was really hard when the economy was doing well. Paradoxically, for certain industries (especially those reliant on innovation such as those in the tech sp...
what a tease! the pic is not closeup enough so we can read the legend (should we assume + = positive??)
It makes me almost as sad as the fact that you got a Kindle1 instead of Kindle2! (used one today, it's fantastic)
Guess What
Sasha is gorgeous. We did good. But she could do with a companion.
oh *that* Woz, almost forgot about him-- har har.
I better get to sleep now.
The Other Wozniak, Supermemo and Pimsleur
You all know Woz, but do you know Piotr Wozniak, the Polish memory whizz? Piotr Wozniak created the program Supermemo which is a handy little piece of software that helps people remember things. i.e. new languages. Its not very user friendly, but I'm buying a copy anyway. He has discove...
That English charm always wins 'em over !
The Morning Show With Mike And Juliet
FOX NEWS -- Feb 3 -- There a plenty of fish in the sea, and nearly as many online dating sites. M&J investigate which services will help you find that perfect catch. M&J spoke to Dr. Gian Gonzaga from eHarmony, CEO of Lavalife Marina Glogovac and Mark Brooks from PlentyofFish.com. Juliet: Dr ...
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