Should I Hire A Growth Hacker For My Startup?
The tectonic plates in mobile and web application development are shifting faster than ever these days. Development used to be a about smart idea turned into project timeline with quality gates, and an eventual due date for the project being finished or turned on. That just isn’t the case any longer. Ok, maybe in old [...]
Maps Are The New Social Network
While I am sure most people are going to think that the title of this post is cliche, I want to point out that that is not the case at all. A few years ago people started talking about mobile social networks and I thought that was a really interesting, but way off in time [...]
Is Design Going To Rival Development?
Since the beginning of the Social Matchbox event series I have heard a lot of stories from founders and hiring teams. Finding funding is always a good bet, but that is a problem that is usually self inflicted (e.g. founders looking to raise money with little more than a company concept as opposed to anything [...]
What Social Networks And Traffic Calming Devices Have In Common
For many years I have had one of those love and hate relationships with LinkedIn. The company introduced some novel ideas many years ago and then proceeded to kill them as time went on. One such feature is the LinkedIn Introduction Request. LinkedIn recently made it really hard to use the feature. This compounded a [...]
Digg Sells Humans In Deal With Elite Media!!!
Yeah, sounds like a headline straight out of the Onion. Digg.com, a company that was built by Owen Byrne, a past Social Matchbox panelist, who was hired via Elance.com and scaled up by him and others including Eli White who is a Washington area guy as well, has literally sold humans to the elite media. [...]
My Garage Or Yours
When the startup exit climate starts to heat up it isn’t a stretch to say that Monopoly rules are in effect. Everyone wants to cash in, founders, founders seeking to be landlords while being founders, VC’s starting startups that compete with the startups they are soliciting pitches from, VC’s starting job boards, bloggers starting VC [...]
When Industries Collide
There was a time in my life when things were changing really fast in the technology space. Things like Photo and Laser Tag were popping up at the same time as next generation gaming consoles like the Atari 600, 800, 9600 and 1040 ST were popping out alongside of the Commodore 64 and other various [...]
