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On Email Bankruptcy

Let me first give credit for that phrase to Fred Wil­son, a NYC ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist who blogged about email over­load ear­lier this week. I came across his post, and a post by Mark Suster in response (con­tin­u­a­tion) to Fred’s. These guys are speak­ing out about a real prob­lem for peo­ple like us who want to […]

What I’m Doing Wrong

Yah. I said it. I’m doing some­thing very wrong. In fact, with respect to blog­ging and social media, it relates to one of the biggest pieces of advice I’d give other peo­ple. Not that I’m such a big advi­sor, I just have a big mouth and am “a lit­tle” opin­ion­ated. That advice is “par­tic­i­pate” in […]

A Linked In Tip

You know that feel­ing you get when something’s just not right? I get that feel­ing every time I get an imper­sonal Linked In invite to con­nect. I reg­u­larly get invites from peo­ple I haven’t spo­ken to in quite some time. I’m amazed at how often those invites are the default “I’d like to add you […]

The Details ARE the Product

The devil’s def­i­nitely in the details. And, it all falls on the shoul­ders of the Prod­uct Man­ager. Prod­uct Man­agers own the mun­dane task of prod­uct spec­i­fi­ca­tions, roadmaps, pric­ing, and so on along with prod­uct vision and direc­tion. It’s also their respon­si­bil­ity to make sure it all comes together in a pack­age that makes sense. Take a […]

Happiness. It’s Contagious… I Hope!

I feel bad that I’ve let this blog slip. In part because some­times I strug­gle with all the social noise and the feel­ing of irrel­e­vance sets in. Though, in large part it’s because I’m freak­ing busy! My days are full of Actional (I’d love to tell you how great we’re doing, but alas we’re a public […]