Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. While I feel that I tend to have a strong POV on many things I’ve always been aware of the social proof impact on my decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Homebrew: Looking back at our “ Welcome Kate ” blog post three years ago, what were you thinking at the time. It’s also a business I’m really bullish on (now that I’ve been able to hone my investing POV!). During this period we, and the Homebrew founders, have benefited tremendously from Kate’s work.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 15, 2022

Examples using second person POV. We could write an entire blog post on survey email copy but you need to actually get subscribers to open the email first. “[NAME], people have questions about [insert product]. Can you help?”. “Hi Can we talk?”. “Hi Hi [NAME], how do your new [brand] sneakers fit?”. Hey [NAME]. Looking for 40% off?”.

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Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

Normally, I like to pounce on these big acquisitions quickly with some quick analysis, but big M&A in tech is happening too fast, and it’s graduation season for the toddlers, and family is in town, so for this installment of the blog, we will talk about both Looker and Tableau together, as they’re in the same space. See below for #5.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

Here is a quick summary of my POV: When you start a company a 50/50 partnership seems obvious. People just don’t talk about it publicly or in blogs. So emotional is the topic that people often want to debate me based on the title before they’ve even heard my point of view. I am one of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2010

What happens when I write blog posts is that I type really quickly what is in my brain and hit send with very little revision. In defending myself in the comments section I started to settle on a slightly revised POV. By the next day I usually try to clean up some of the typos but usually try to leave the content intact.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My goal here is to move the debate forward, add my POV but not inflame things any further. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. Here we go again. Another post on job hopping. This will be my final word on the topic. I promise. Inflaming was never my goal. Let’s see if I can achieve that.

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