June 2010
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I come from the product development side of things, which means that generally...
– Scott Porad, CTO of Cheezburger Network in “What is Marketing?”
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I outgrew the “idiots in marketing” mindset years ago, and, honestly it’s almost turned to thoughts about the “idiots in engineering” recently. The marketers may have...
1 Week Slump
I’ve been blogging for about six or seven years now, sometimes taking breaks for months at a time. However, since starting on tumblr 2.5 years ago, I don’t think I’ve ever gone more than a few days without a update of some sort; it’s just so easy to share something, without the feeling of “is it significant enough?”.
For the past week, however, I’ve been...
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It warms the heart to know that the same jackasses who rib me at work are also...
– Greg Bowers (@gb)
Proud to be one of those jackasses. Backstory here.
Seattle 2.0 Awards: Last Chance to Vote! →
By the way, Joe, about whom I just wrote, is a finalist in the Seattle 2.0 Awards. I’d tell you to go vote for him, but he’s up against me, so I’ll simply tell you to go vote :)
You have until 11:59 pm on Tuesday night to cast your ballot.
Unexpected Startup Lessons
My friend Joe Heitzeberg was the co-founder and CEO of Snapvine, which was acquired by WhitePages.com back in 2008. He’s currently the VP of Engineering at WhitePages, has an MBA from MIT Sloan, and is an overall super-smart and interesting guy, so I’m excited to see him pick up blogging recently at Currently Obsessed.
Joe just posted the first in a multi-part series of Unexpected...
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Ketchup
I’ve always had a thing for ketchup.
In college, one of my favorite dining hall meals was a mini-loaf of bread dipped into a cup of the stuff. It had to be Heinz; I was distraught if I even went to a restaurant and they were serving Hunt’s, Del Monte, or worst of all, an unmarked bottle that didn’t have that distinctive Heinz flavor. What were they trying to pull?
Recently...
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