Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

'I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Kudos. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 12, 2013

Recently, hardware companies have been popping up in all kinds of places. Nest is building the next thermostat. Sonos sells seamless and beautiful soun systems. Thalmic Labs and Leap Motion are innovating in alternate forms of computing control. Electric Imp is building the platform-as-a-service to connect devices to the web via Wifi and so on. Hardware investments are blossoming because software is reinvigorating the market.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 12, 2013

'I''ve had two entrepreneurs I know in the last week come to this same conclusion. Despite the fact that they''re great sales founders, selling isn''t actually their job. Being the sole salesperson on your team, no matter how good you are, isn''t scalable. You need to figure out what it is that you do to sell, the scripts you know by heart that you never wrote out, the way you get a feel for which customers are warmer than others, and find a way to teach it to others.

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Derek Sivers

JUNE 14, 2013

When I first had the idea for Wood Egg — publishing 16 books about 16 countries every year — I thought I would write them all myself. Visit 16 countries for 3 weeks each, doing intensive research the whole time. That’s 48 weeks, so I could do it again each year. … But I had a baby on the way, so that idea lasted about a minute. Then I thought of a journalist I know who would love that kind of life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

'I have a motto in business and life, “give before you get.” It’s a philosophy, really. And it applies to business relationships & networking as much as it does to remuneration in the workplace. It seems we live in an era of “ask.” I see it on Twitter. Lots of asking. I see it on email even more. And in person in spades.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 9, 2013

'The other day I went to dinner with a friend. My phone was low on power--drained from listening to the Mets take 20 innings to lose a game. I plugged in before we went out. When we were ready to go, I instinctively reached for my phone, because I never really walk out the door without it. We weren''t going far, but that wasn''t the point. It has become an appendage--a tether to the rest of the world, preventing me from straying too far from the other billions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

'This article originally appeared on Inc.com. Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. This is a very important to do when you first start a company.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2013

Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen a wholesale migration of software development on the web towards cloud away from client/server models. The cloud offers many benefits: seamless upgrades, synchronization of data across different devices and lesser hardware requirements. But the cloud centralizes all the data. All of our Dropbox files, Google documents, and emails are held within one or few companies' servers - which provides easy access for hackers and government.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 13, 2013

In the past 12 months, we’ve seen at least three major acquisitions of social networks by larger social networks. Facebook acquires Instagram. Google acquires Waze. Yahoo acquires Tumblr. And we are likely to see quite a few more given the dramatic growth of mobile messaging clients and social networks of all different kinds. While each of these acquisitions has their own particular motivations, underpinning all three is user engagement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2013

Pricing is one of the most challenging decisions for any startup. One of the simplest ways of discovering customer willingness to pay is simply to ask them. At first blush, that might seem a reasonable and effective solution, it is prone to wild inaccuracy. Absolute pricing judgments are hard without reference points. For example: How much would you be willing to pay for a new iPhone?

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