This is why we think it’s our job to 100% of the time put community interests ahead of corporate interests.
We feel that there are enough people in the world that are concerned about that corporate stuff. It seems that everyone we talk to these days asks about ‘the enterprise’ or ‘the bottom line’. Yep. Last [...]
We enjoyed meeting you, too, James! James is an awesome guy who is working on a health site from Scotland who I first had the pleasure meeting at a Founders SIG. He spent some time in the Bay area meeting people around here. I’m really glad he made it to BarCampSanFrancisco.
Not enough people send postcards, [...]
Another brilliant post at Signal vs. Noise…this one on fear and scaling…
The flip-side is that you need to recognize genuine threats — even if they’re “boring� issues. Things like these are a lot more likely to actually cripple your chances of success:Taking forever to launch
Running out of money
Not solving a real problem
Designing a confusing UI
Obsessing [...]
“Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…”
That’s what a passionate (and somewhat sweaty) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously chanted (video) some years ago at a conference - proclaiming Microsoft’s love and respect of it’s developer base.
As an operating system vendor, Microsoft has always been keen to support the [...]
Kate* writes:
So, our real job as marketers is to ensure that we’ve made something worth talking about. And so begins the dance between product management and product marketing (steps I’m learning to do). Marketers need to understand our products more than ever, but more importantly, we need to understand our customer and [...]