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Balancing the Scales

October 17, 2006 – 7:22 am

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. [...]

By Tara Hunt | Comments (8)

Awesome Postcard

October 13, 2006 – 3:27 am

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 [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Events | Comments (1)

Fear: a hat tip to 37 Signals

October 9, 2006 – 9:00 am

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 “boringâ€? 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 [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Startup 101 | Comments Off

Developer Networks: Just how sweaty are you getting?

September 23, 2006 – 11:57 pm

“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 [...]

By Ben Metcalfe | Also posted in Bidness | Comments (3)

Make something worth talking about

September 19, 2006 – 6:22 am

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 what they [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Clients | Comments Off