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Re: The five best ways to use a mentor

Michael Kotowski — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:37:36 -0000

Thanks for the simple and concise summary of these basic steps. #Mentoring is good - if both/all sides do their part!

Re: 10 articles all ‘intrapreneurs’ should read

Ronnie Rocket — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:12:29 -0000

I have been advocating many of the themes in this article - including the value of experimentation & protyping, the power of the blogs (you are here!) and the combination of Bitcoin(/Flattr) micropayments & creative crowdfunding - for quite a while so this blog post by Marc Andreessen is the most important one out there right now in my book. http://a16z.com/2014/02/25/...

Re: 10 articles all ‘intrapreneurs’ should read

Sune Engsig — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:26:43 -0000

Can't wait to read all of these! I am in an intrapreneurial position today, and this company have just gone through an epic fail. Looking forward to see, how many a-ha's these articles will provide me with.

Re: 3 myths about corporate innovation – how Verizon is acting like a startup where it makes sense for them.

Ilana Rabinowitz — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:02:02 -0000

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Re: Three reasons why email still rules the Internet

Dave Linabury — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:27:14 -0000

107 trillion emails… of which an estimated 97% were unwanted spam* (BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...

Re: The five best ways to use a mentor

Friissandra — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:15:09 -0000

Great reading Henrik!

Re: Research project: Making a social ‘pagerank’ for physical locations

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Re: Creativity is just connecting things

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Re: How to deal with the excitement and anxiety of releasing a lean startup

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Re: Most mobile apps never get used – and why we made Allify

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Re: 3 myths about corporate innovation – how Verizon is acting like a startup where it makes sense for them.

Paul Golding — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:45:44 -0000

An insightful blog post. I have specialised for years in helping big corps, esp. in mobile/telco world, to adopt the patterns of start-ups. I documented some of the techniques in my latest book "Connected Services." It has also led me to write a new book specifically about how to be more innovative as an individual in spite of all the obstacles (the word I use is "F*ckers") that will get in the way.

Re: The five best ways to use a mentor

Alma — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:15:07 -0000

Do you know if there are mentors to advice writers?

Re: Usability and experience is not the same; 3 things Google can learn from Apple

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Re: Research project: Making a social ‘pagerank’ for physical locations

werdelin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:32:21 -0000

Think we moved it around a bit. Try the dev server: http://174.143.212.119/

Re: Research project: Making a social ‘pagerank’ for physical locations

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when I click the link, I get
Oops! Google Chrome could not find coffeememe.com

Re: Three reasons why email still rules the Internet

Michael Gronager — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:34:25 -0000

Totally agree! The reason is that email is the only federated asynchronous communication technology around, and companies are extremely dependent of federated technologies - i.e. phone, fax, snail mail and... email. Rest is essentially not communication or social media but just entertainment ;)

Re: Three reasons why email still rules the Internet

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Re: Three reasons why email still rules the Internet

RONNIEROCKET.COM — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:25:15 -0000

I actually started my business on a telex machine (ordering import records for my record shop). The fax machine made my life much easier (even though I was practically the only one in Denmark owning one at first), and as an early e-mail adopter (so early that I actually faxed copies of the e-mail in the beginning just to make sure the recipient got it!) I know all about spending a lot of time in the inbox. However, for me at least, sending and receiving e-mails are like sending a letter with a tongue-licked stamp on it these days. The e-mail inbox is a 'one dimensional' communication space, where you don't want to spend to much time. 80% of my communications have moved to the social space. With the arrival of Google+, I expect my Gmails to be 'socialsed' in some form any time soon. Sending and receiving e-mail is the most boring part of the internet. It is so slow. Why not IM or text? I think e-mail, IM and SMS will merge. Like on a Japanese mobile phone. The e-mail as we know it is an old fashioned letter. Slow and romantic. And hopefully not a FINAL NOTICE.

Re: How to deal with the excitement and anxiety of releasing a lean startup

Glen Carlson — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:22:56 -0000

Prehype looks very interesting... hope whitespace rocks!

Re: The Product Developer’s Dilemma; Morality vs. Virality

werdelin — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:56:46 -0000

Reminds me of the original plaxo concept. I guess, I would feel it would be inappropriate for me at this time to ping all my contacts with a request to an update. Especially, as that need is increasingly becoming redundant due to contant list integrations with facebook/linkedin. I feel that you would need to be very focused in the usecase. e.g. something like: 'I am sending snail mail letters out and want to make sure I have the correct details, please update yours..'. At this point my contact lists includes too many contacts where I think they would feel it was inappropriate to get a email like that.

Re: The Product Developer’s Dilemma; Morality vs. Virality

jclamp — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:47:36 -0000

If you liked rainmaker it would be neat to hear what you think of contactgorilla.com. Don't have to sign up but just the concept of it. Invitations to your contacts to have them update your address book for you - is that too invasive?

Re: How to deal with the excitement and anxiety of releasing a lean startup

vicky123445 — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:00:32 -0000

Well written article, nice helping one post.

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Re: How to deal with the excitement and anxiety of releasing a lean startup

werdelin — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:27:56 -0000

Thanks for this.. Totally agree with the form entry!! I entered the password wrong the second time when testing last night.. Its high on the todo list to fix that.. Hope you come back :)

Re: How to deal with the excitement and anxiety of releasing a lean startup

Andrew J Scott — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:25:00 -0000

Not hugely; other than make sure you have a clear plan for measurement in place - what are the key metrics which will tell you if your product is working?

Focus on what is critical and have a set plan to iterate.

How are you going to capture user feedback easily?

And finally, do you have the basics right - i.e. signup (if there is one)? If you fall at the first hurdle your product is doomed.

On that note, I noticed that Whitespaces deletes all your form entry info when it returns a validation error - really annoying. I was in a rush and so much so it did that I closed the window. Didn't have time. To get me back (as an ignorant user ;) is now twice as hard.

...my two penneth off the top of my head anyway :-)

Re: How to deal with the excitement and anxiety of releasing a lean startup

werdelin — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:41:43 -0000

You are right. Guess I didnt really have a good answer other than to trust your gut and release when you are feel its good enough.. Any other suggestions?