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The End of Pinboard?
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AUGUST 13, 2014 |  The Globe and Mail | by COLIN FREEZE 

If seeking an insight into the sweep of modern spying check out what Bill Robinson has just posted. The London, Ont.-based researcher behind the "Lux Ex Umbra" blog has literally connected the dots on an Edward Snowden leak......Canadian spies kept tabs on devices that had used WiFi at an undefined Canadian airport? According to Mr. Robinson's deduction, this was almost certainly Toronto's Pearson International....Never an adversary of the state, Robinson is more like an astute observer who has taken it upon himself to **read well and deeply** into a paucity of CSEC materials out there, to tell the public what he can about this important institution....the Lux Ex Umbra blog – literally "light from darkness" – always has an insight. Peruse the postings over the past decade in their totality and what you'll see chronicled is an incredible story. The evolution of CSEC, its powers, its budget and its growing reach both inside and outside of Canada – a story everyone else had missed.[i.e. = "underreported"/"under_appreciated"/"under_discussed"]
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Marginal Revolution
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Nick Rowe - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Steve Randy Waldman  - Interfluidity
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable

Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted.

By definition, if you are reading this you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Absolutely.

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. 

1. Why
If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this.

People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. I was having the same conversations over-and-over again (JFDI, Don’t Roll Out the Red Carpet when Employees are on the Way Out the Door, Don’t Drink Your Own Kool Aid, etc) and I figured I might as well just write them up and make them available for future people who might be interested. I never really expected a big audience or ever thought about it.

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community.

The results have been both unexpected and astounding. Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). But it speaks volumes to what people want from our industry:


transparency
accessibility
authenticity
thought leadership
advice

I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.
2. What

 

I often get the question from people, “I’d like to blog, but I don’t really know what to talk about?” Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?”
You wouldn’t. You shouldn’t. 

Not only would it be less authentic but if you’re a startup it’s not immediately clear that other startup CEOs are your target market. They’re mine because I’m a VC. I care about having a steady stream of talented startup people who want to raise money thinking that they should talk to me in addition to the top others whom they’re targeting.

Whom do you want to target? Who are your customers, partners or suppliers?


My suggestion is to blog about your industry. Think Mint.com. In their early days they had an enormously effective blog on the topic of personal financial management. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. They created inbound link juice on topics that drove more traffic to their site. Type “personal financial management” into Google.  Mint.com is the second result. Smart.


Think Magento. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. They are the fastest growing player in the world in this space. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Yet type it into Google and the third result (behind the Wikipedia entry and ecommerce.com) is Magento. Magic. They did it by creating a blog, discussion board and hub for eCommerce advice and information.


So you developed a product for the mommy community? Blog on that topic. Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps? You know your blog topic. Do you have sales productivity software? Obvious. Check out SalesCrunch posts. Blog to your community. Be a thought leader. Don’t blog to your friend (that might be a separate Tumblog or something) but blog to your community.


If you’re going to pump out regular content that is meaningful, you obviously need to blog about a topic in which you’re knowledgeable, thoughtful and passionate. If you’re not all three of these things in your industry then I guess you’ve got a broader problem. Honestly.


So my biggest recommendation of “what” to blog is a series of articles that will be helpful to your community. If you’re a lawyer, blog on a topic that would be helpful to potential customers. Show that you’re a thought leader. Scott Edward Walker does an excellent job at this. It’s the only reason I know who he is. I had seen his blog & his Tweets and then was interested to meet him IRL. 
Do a brainstorming session and create a list of 40-50 topics that interest you. Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. Keep the list electronically. .


Struggling to come up with enough topics? Take one topic and break it up into 10 bite-sized articles. It’s probably better that way anyways. I wanted to write about the top 10 attributes of an entrepreneur. I wrote it all in one sitting and then broke it up into 10 separate posts. It kept me busy for 3 weeks! Each one ended up taking on a life of its own as the comments flowed in for post 1 I had more thoughts to add to post 2 and so on.
 

3. Where

You need a blog. Duh. If you’re a company and if hanging it off of your company website makes sense for the link traffic – go for it. If you’re head of marketing at a company and keeping a more generalized blog (in addition to your company blog) so that you can influence brands & agencies – it can be separate.

I chose for my blog to be independent of my firm, GRP Partners.  The reason is that I wanted to be free to say what I was thinking independently of my partners. My views don’t always represent theirs and vice-versa even though we’re pretty like-minded (we’ve worked together for 10+ years) [i.e. = "kindred spirits"].  I chose a title that represented a brand that I wanted to emphasize – Both Sides of the Table. I chose it because I thought it would represent who I am – mostly an entrepreneur but somebody with investment chops. I wanted to differentiate.

So. People keep asking me, “why would you write on TechCrunch?” I guess I would have thought it was obvious. Apparently not. People say, “aren’t you driving traffic away from your own blog?”

Facts:


I don’t really care about total page views or uniques other than as a measure of whether I’m improving. I don’t sell ads.
I DO care about “share of mind,”[i.e. = "staying top of other people's minds"]  which means that I want fish in the pond where the people whom I want to speak with hang out. I know a certain number hit my blog. But I’m not so arrogant (or successful) as to think they come all the time. So I take my show on the road. If I can write about a topic for which I’m passionate about and double or triple the number of people who read it – that’s gold dust. That’s why I never stopped anybody from taking my feed and republishing.
As it happens, since I began writing at TechCrunch my viewership has continued to go up, not down. I always publish on my own blog the day after it runs on TC. I want the historical post there. A large number of readers on my site get it from Feedburner or newsletter feed.
I also get a lot of inbound links from writing here. I try to make any inbound links to my blog authentic to the story. But each story has driven 1,000′s of views.
The majority of my traffic still comes from Twitter. TC posts = more Twitter followers = more conversion when I do write on my own blog = more Feedburner / newsletter subs = more traffic. It’s an ecosystem. Simple.

So once you have a blog, a voice and a small following – don’t be shy about writing some guest posts for target blogs. Remember – for you that’s likely not TC – it’s the place your community hangs out.

4. How

Be authentic. Don’t try to sound too smart or too funny.  Just be yourself.  People will see who you are in your words.  If you try to make everything too perfect you’ll never hit publish.  If you try to sound too intelligent you’ll likely be boring as shit.  Most blogs are.  I hate reading blow hards who try to sound like they’re smarter than the rest of us. Be open and transparent.  Get inside your reader’s minds.  Try to think about what they would want to know from you.  In fact, ask them!

Don’t be offensive – it’s never worth it to offend great masses of people.  But that doesn’t mean sitting on the fence.  I have a point of view and I’m sure sometimes it rankles.  But I try to be respectful about it.  Sitting on the fence on all issues is also pretty boring.  And don’t blog drunk.  Or at least don’t hit publish ;-) Mostly, have fun.  If you can’t do that you won’t last very long.

How do I get started? First, you’ll need a platform.  I use WordPress.  Some people swear by SquareSpace. There are the new tools like Tumblr and Posterous.  I’ve played with both and they’re pretty cool. They’re more light weight and easier to use. Importantly, they’re more social. It’s much easier to build an audience in social blogging platforms the way you do in Twitter or Facebook.  T

hen  you need to decide whether to use the “hosted” version or the “installed” version.  At least that’s true in WordPress.  The advantage of the hosted version is that it’s easier to get started.  The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products.

You then need a URL.  It’s true you can be something like msuster.typepad.com but that’s kind of lame so I wouldn’t recommend it.  Just get a real URL.  I think it’s important to think about what image you want to portray when you pick your URL name.  It doesn’t need to be short.  You’re not trying to build a consumer website.  My website is a pretty long URL but people manage to find it.  Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Some search. What are YOU trying to convey?  What will be your unique positioning?  Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing.  That’s boring.

So I wrote a post, now what? Don’t blow your load on your first post.  Slice it up enough to do many posts.  I think most blogs are between 600-1000 words / post.  Once you’re written a few posts don’t try to make the flood gates open at once.  Slowly build your audience.  Make it organic.  If you write good content and consistently you’ll build an audience over time.

The number one thing that kills 95% of blogs is that they do 5 or 6 posts in rapid succession and then peter out. It’s lame to go to a blog where this happens. And then 8 months later they do the obligatory post saying, “OK, I’m going to be more committed to blogging now!” and then another 4 months go by. If you’re really not going to write that often at least don’t put dates on your posts.

But if you write good stuff, but in an effort and keep going – it’s a marathon – you will see results over time.

How do I build an audience? If you build it, will they come? No. A blog post is just like a product. First it needs to be good. And then you need to market it. It doesn’t just happen. You should be subtle about how you market it, but market it nonetheless. If you’re too squeamish to ask for help in promoting it or to do so yourself then you’ll never build an audience (you’ll also likely not make it as an entrepreneur. Sorry. But that’s true.)

The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog.  Don’t be overbearing – just an email saying, “wanted to let you know about my new blog.”  I also recommend you put a link to it under your email signature (in a color other than black).  You also should have it be what your Twitter bio links to.

Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter.  I try to send out the Twitter link when more people are online.  Over time I’ve found out that I get better clicks at 8.30-9.30am Mon-Fri so that’s when I Tweet a lot of my stuff.  I’ll frequently send two Tweets – East Coast & West Coast. If you want to know why I’ve outlined it here.  Not everybody sees the first one.  Social media is ephemeral.

Because I’ve built my Twitter following slowly but steadily and authentically over time I get very high click-through rates (and thus a high Klout score – currently 74). I get about 4% CTR (click-through rate) on every Tweet in the AM) and it’s actually higher because if I assume only 33% of my followers on online the CTR is closer to 12%.  Interestingly if I had sent one Tweet at 5.30am (to get East Coast time) and another at 8.30am I get 4% CTR both times. So it’s hard to argue you shouldn’t Tweet twice if you have a geographically distributed following.

How do I know my stats? I use awe.sm (disclosure, I’m an investor) which is the best tool I know of for tracking: each individual share behavior (it creates unique URLs for each Tweet) plus it also separates out Tweets from Facebook shares, from “Retweets” that come from somebody clicking on my blog, etc. It also tracks who Tweeted the link so you will know who your most influential social followers are.

Make sure your blog has Tweetmeme or similar to make it easier for readers to Retweet.  Also, make sure to sign up with Feedburner.  That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. Make sure your blog also has a Follow Me on Twitter button so people who find you can easily follow you.

5. When

People often ask how I blog so much and don’t think they can do it themselves. If you write about something for which you’re both knowledgeable and passionate I’ll bet you can pump out more than you think.

I usually blog at 10pm or on airplane flights. I never blog at work. Like you, I don’t have the time. I have board meetings, company pitches, internal partner meetings, etc. Hell, I often can’t even get to email during the day. So it comes out of TV time, which means I’m not missing anything. Occasionally if I really want to blog and I have a date or too much work I just set my alarm for 5.30am. Yup. It’s not that hard if you make a commitment to it.

What would it mean to you and your business if you could: increase your inbound traffic, enhance your company & personal brand, meet new influential people who suddenly know who you are. If you want these things they are available to you for the cost of some time & effort.

  If you plan out what you want to write about in advance (create topics then to headings to structure your article. You’ll notice on this one I started with mine … Why, What, Where, How and then I later added When & What Next) then it’s really about writing.  Structure helps enormously.  If you need some help with the creative process read this.

I write for about 45 minutes to an hour in the first pass.  I usually then re-read, edit, spell check and add links.  This usually takes another 20-30 minutes.  I then always add an image.  I think this is a nice touch.  Just staring at text is a bit boring and I find that the image can add humor and/or drive people in.

6. What Next?

Then there’s comments.  You HAVE TO respond to comments.  Do yourself a favor and install Disqus. It makes a huge difference in driving a comment community.  If you want the details on why I covered it here.

First, it’s the most fun part of blogging.  It’s addicting like Twitter.  It’s where you exchange ideas with other people.  It’s where your community gets to know you.  It’s where you build loyalty and relationships.  I have met many people in person who were first commenters on my blog.  I find it frustrating if I leave comments on somebody’s blog and they never respond.  If somebody found your blog and took the time to comment then they’re like a customer who should be cherished. Responses to them are like customer retention. It’s also where you’ll learn. People will tell you when you’re full of shit.

Appendix: Traffic Hacks:


Commenting on other blogs – you need to comment on other people’s blogs.  First, it is a place where your comment will often link back to your blog where it can drive traffic.  Occasionally, and not overtly, and only if relevant you can provide a comment with a link back to an article in your blog.  Don’t do this often, don’t be blatant and make sure it’s relevant.
Linking to other blogs – For example, many people know that I love VentureHacks because it’s a great resource for entrepreneurs and I think that Babak Nivi is a star.  Notice I’ve linked to his website.  If he tracks his blog (which I’m sure he does) he’ll see this link.  If he has a Google Alert on his name (everyone does) then he’ll also get that.  Don’t be over the top gushing and creepy.  Be subtle.  Don’t overtly tell everyone you link to, “I linked to you, check out my article!”  Assume that over time if you write compelling content they’ll eventually check you out.
Covering relevant people in your blog in an authentic way – If your blog covers topics in your industry it’s likely that you’ll be able to write about some people and companies that you want to be aware of your blog.  Don’t Tweet @ them telling them you covered them. Don’t email them saying you covered them. Just talk about their company. If you write good articles over time and do this often enough people will notice.
Tweet support - What I did in the early days was to enlist Tweet support.  I would occasionally ask people that I was close with to retweet my posts.  I tried to mix it up in order to not ask the same people often.  I would send out emails with the Tweet text already written so that they just had to cut-and-paste.  As my blog started getting authentic traffic I stopped asking for this help very often.
Guest authoring – Once you have a bit of credibility as a writer a great strategy to drive traffic is to write guest posts for relevant bloggers in your sphere of influence.   If you run BakeSpace and blog about food why not contact some of the local food blogs and see whether you could submit guest articles.  Most people are delighted to have the free content.  In return all you ask for are links back to your blog and to your Twitter account.  Slowly and surely these will add users, of which some will come back on a regular basis.

         

     
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    <dc:date>2015-07-28T18:41:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The view from the eye of a recession isn't great.  When companies are going bust, unemployment growing, and everyone's scouring their budgets for costs to cut, it can be hard to see opportunities.  However, when Tim pointed to Stephen O'Grady's fine set of 2010 predictions I found myself popping with "oh, so naturally this will happen next ..." thoughts.  Think of this as a glimpse of the blue sky after the economic funnelspout that's demolished our economy. (Continuations of the tornado metaphor with "being sucked into the cloud", or "trailer park economics", or "we're not in Kansas any more, Tantek" left as an exercise to the reader)

As every cloud provider creates their own "open API" (itself a fraught term), look to see the rise of brokers who can migrate you from one cloud to another.  Deltacloud is an early free project here from RedHat, but there are many business opportunities waiting.  It's possible that companies will pay for assurance (you've tested your migration tool, you know it works on >>corner cases<<), service vs product (they don't want tools to run, they want to pay you to install and maintain the tools accessible through a web console [i.e. = "Instrumentation_monitoring"] ), or premium services so that you're a partner helping them get the most from the cloud and not simply a vendor.

We're a long way from sated in the world of collaboration tools.  The current rage is mail learning, applying machine learning techniques to email so as to better understand social networks and prioritise incoming email messages and these are largely server-based solutions because it's so hard to get access to the desktop/web clients.  Should Google Mail create an app store environment with hooks into the backend, the game could be on for consumer plays around email analytics, prediction, and simply smarter behaviour (why does my email client still not tell me when I say "see attached" yet don't have an attachment in the message?).

Beyond email, many interesting tools have sprung up around the Gov 2.0 space that have applicability within organisations.  Yammer has done well to bring Twitter to large companies, but there are still opportunities around simple document markup and suggestion gathering and filtering.  Solve a real problem and there's money waiting.
Google's low overhead management is made possible by its automated intranet and the visibility into projects from public code repositories, public smoke builds, and public status blogs.  The opportunities to sell this into large companies looking to be "more like Google" are huge.

If Stephen's right that ++datasets are increasingly viewed as "serious, balance sheet-worthy assets" then the world is going to need some serious balance sheet-worthy help in valuing those assets.++ [i.e. = "asset values"/"balance sheets"]

Big data is being democratised, but there's a lot of unmet need in businesses around data warehousing.  The typical solution is to build a data warehouse team around a product like Oracle, but I've heard plenty of business people grizzling about the result.  They want answers, they don't want the headaches and lag that a data warehouse involve.  Big Data (or Cloud Analytics or whatever) may be the opportunity to figure out a new minimum viable product for these folks, and offer it without the "data warehouse" baggage.  This might be back end, might be UIs, might be visualisation, but all of these have a lot of room for improvement.
The proliferation of developer targets immediately makes me think of the early PC era.  It makes sense to proliferate: let the most useful ("successful") bubble to the top and survive naturally.  At this point in the evolution of the scaleout of massively multiplayer online programming languages, we don't know exactly what winning looks like: it's a big feedback loop between the people who build the programming languages and the people with problems to solve (there are always more of the latter than former) and each time we go around it we know more about what is and isn't useful in this brave new world of coding for other people's data centres.  Opportunity?  Join the mob and write your own programming language, or simply take your commercial opportunity for a spin around the many different languages out there and be the first in your niche to find a good fit between problem space and solution tool.

Stephen's throwaway comment "I’ve never subscribed to the idea that only what can be measured can be managed - open source, in particular, belies that claim" seems like a thrown gauntlet on open source analytics.  In particular, I suspect there's a tools opportunity around the nebulous "community manager" role that every company seems to need.  It's part CRM, it's part developer tool, it's part >>tech support<<, and part camp mother.  Usefully quantify aspects of open source development and help companies that are doing it to know how they're doing and what they could do better.

Marketplaces are big in mobile, but I look to other areas as ripe for the picking.  For example, if Google Apps are catching on in many companies then a plugin marketplace is a natural extension.  It would build out the Apps suite faster than Google can, would enable the tight loop between demand and supply that will drive the product along, and make Google's offering very different from other parties.  This is also true of Microsoft and others, but I feel like momentum is more with Google's product than the others. (A feature can push a leader further in front, but rarely helps a laggard leapfrog to the lead)

Every marketplace thus far has been flawed.  Apple's famously annoys many developers and blocks huge categories of product (the "don't be better than we are" rule, which is hard to justify as being in the customer's interest), but don't forget Palm's impedance mismatch with jwz's open source code.  I think the final chapter on how marketplaces work is far from written.

NoSQL tools remain in their infancy and so there are huge opportunities here.  Identify a niche ("fast accurate and timely >>web metrics<< for decision-making"), a tool that can solve it (MongoDB), and build the deployment, scaling, administration, reporting tools so you can sell a >>complete package<< into that niche.  Rinse, lather, repeat.




   
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Getting in Touch
Posted on February 1, 2008 by Steve
As any of you who try to send email to me probably know, there is an extremely aggressive filter on the server hosting this site.

You will have much better luck sending to steve (dot) munro (at) ca (dot) inter (dot) net. You can reassemble the email address yourself.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aug. 22, 2014 | WSJ | By TODD PLUMMER.

An authentic energy infuses the images he shoots for his four-year-old street-style blog, Men in This Town, which he has turned into a book of the same name, available Sept. 2, 2014.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By ROBERT J. MOORE  AUGUST 18, 2014

(1) Have a “call to action.”
(2) Accept that your company is not very interesting (yet).
(3) Become part of a bigger narrative.
(4) Build your own megaphone.
(5) Be resilient.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jul. 27 2014 | The Globe and Mail | by GAYLE MACDONALD.

It was a scary and uncertain time for the St. John’s resident, but rather than wallow in self-pity as he underwent aggressive chemotherapy, he blogged about his cancer experience (which later became a CBC Radio miniseries). In March, he published The End of Suffering, a book of personal musings, to give hope to other cancer patients.... people dealing with cancer aren't looking for any pity or sympathy. They want normalcy and they want laughter.

What did cancer teach you about life, love and being a doctor?

Cancer taught me to be happy. Every day you stay miserable is a day wasted.

I think you find out who loves you most **when the chips are down** [i.e. = "difficult situations"}. It’s easy to love people when everything is going well, but the real enduring, beautiful love persists in the space of adversity.

As a doctor, it taught me that patients suffer and that suffering is what they want you, as a doctor, to remove. They don’t want you to give them a fancy diagnosis or an expensive drug.

What things should you not say to someone with cancer?

“What’s your prognosis?” Or more bluntly, are you going to live or die? I had someone ask me if I was going to die. I just kind of smiled at him and said, “Why, do you want my stereo?”

Healthy people should never give cancer patients health advice. There’s nothing worse than being sick and getting advice from the healthy, because it’s almost like insinuating you did something to make this happen to you.

Finally, don’t say, “Everything is going to be fine.” I don’t know I’m going to be fine. You don’t know I’m going to be fine. My doctor doesn’t know I’m going to be fine.

They mean well by saying that, but what they should say is, “I care about you and I want you to do well.”]]></description>
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-First and foremost: Don’t buy cotton. Either buy wool or a synthetic blend. Cotton is moisture-absorbant, which dampens the socks and increases the rate of wear (Not to mention the inevitable foot odor).

-Wool has the advantage of being moisture-wicking. Also, throw the notion of wool being a “winter-only” material out the window, it’s dated thinking. Modern advances in the textile industry provides us with high-quality, fine/ultrafine wool that won’t choke your feet. Itchy wool is just cheap wool.

-Despite popular belief, socks aren’t actually one size fits all. They are typically 1 or 2 sizes larger than your shoe size. Poor fit will wreck your socks so mind the fit. Additionally, poor shoe fit can actually ruin your socks quicker as well.

-Always hang dry your nicer socks. The heat from the dryer will wreck the elastic and will unravel the knit. For ultimate longevity, hand wash them as well.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The rise of the Growth Hacker
The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a >>hybrid<< of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?” and answers with >>A/B tests<<, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modeling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. After product/market fit, they can help run up the score on what’s already working.

This isn’t just a single role – the entire marketing team is being disrupted. Rather than a VP of Marketing with a bunch of non-technical marketers reporting to them, instead growth hackers are engineers leading teams of engineers. The process of integrating and optimizing your product to a big platform requires a blurring of lines between marketing, product, and engineering, so that they work together to make the product market itself. Projects like email deliverability, page-load times, and Facebook sign-in are no longer technical or design decisions – instead they are offensive weapons to win in the market.

The stakes are huge because of “superplatforms” giving access to 100M+ consumers
These skills are invaluable and can change the trajectory of a new product. For the first time ever, it’s possible for new products to go from zero to 10s of millions users in just a few years. Great examples include Pinterest, Zynga, Groupon, Instagram, Dropbox. New products with incredible traction emerge every week. These products, with millions of users, are built on top of new, open platforms that in turn have hundreds of millions of users – Facebook and Apple in particular. Whereas the web in 1995 consisted of a mere 16 million users on dialup, today over 2 billion people access the internet. On top of these unprecedented numbers, consumers use super-viral communication platforms that rapidly speed up the proliferation of new products – not only is the market bigger, but it moves faster too.

Before this era, the discipline of marketing relied on the only communication channels that could reach 10s of millions of people – newspaper, TV, conferences, and channels like retail stores. To talk to these communication channels, you used people – advertising agencies, PR, keynote speeches, and business development. Today, the traditional communication channels are fragmented and passe. The fastest way to spread your product is by distributing it on a platform using APIs, not MBAs. Business development is now API-centric, not people-centric.

Whereas PR and press used to be the drivers of customer acquisition, instead it’s now a lagging indicator that your Facebook integration is working. The role of the VP of Marketing, long thought to be a non-technical role, is rapidly fading and in its place, a new breed of marketer/coder hybrids have emerged.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[September 13, 2012, 7:00 am3 Comments
Introducing Creating Value
By JOSH PATRICK

Most owners know more about running their businesses than anyone else in the organization. When it comes time to sell or transfer the business, prospective buyers aren’t interested in the skills of the buyer; they’re interested in cash flow. Buyers want to see regular growth and profit margins and a business that has systems that work without the owner.

I’ve been trying to understand how businesses build value for more than 35 years. One of the things I’ve learned – from the businesses I’ve owned, from reading a book a week for 35 years, from developing seminars for others and attending several educational sessions a year – is that value is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Posted on August 29, 2007 |  Insurance Scrawl | posted by Marc Mayerson.

Policies today routinely seek to exclude the cost of product-recall expense, which can be staggering and life-threatening to a company — both in terms of cost and perhaps more importantly in reputation of the producer.]]></description>
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“With too little data, you won’t be able to make any conclusions that you trust.  With **loads of data**[i.e.= "data deluge"] you will find relationships that aren’t real… On net, having a degree in math, economics, AI, etc., isn’t enough. Tool expertise isn’t enough.  ++You need experience in solving real world problems++, because there are a lot of important limitations to the >>statistics<< that you learned in school.  Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.”.....The “talent” of “understanding the problem [i.e.= "problem framing"/"what are you solving for?"] and the data applicable to it” is what makes a good scientist: The required >>skepticism<<, the development of >>hypotheses<< (models), and the un-ending quest to **refute** [i.e. ="disprove"/"falsification"] them, following the >>scientific method<< that has brought us remarkable progress over the course of the last three hundred and fifty years.]]></description>
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* Bring forward a new idea or technology that disrupts and demands a response
* Change pricing dramatically
* Redefine a service as a product (or vice versa) [i.e. ="redefining the market"]
* Organize the disorganized, connect the disconnected
* Alter the speed to market radically
* Change the infrastructure, the rules or the flow of information
* Give away what used to be expensive and charge for something else
* Cater to the weird, bypassing the masses
* Take the lead on ethics

(Or you could just wait for someone to tell you what they want you to do)
]]></description>
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    <title>Agri 007</title>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jim Romahn is a Journalist who has been reporting on agriculture since 1963; winner of more than 100 awards, including two Govenor- General Awards for Public Service in Journalism.]]></description>
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    <title>Five reasons to look at an industry magazine</title>
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    <link>http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/business_personal_finance/2011/03/five-reasons-to-look-at-an-industry-magazine.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[March 24, 2011 | Teresa 

Now why would you want to look at a magazine in print, when so many are available in either databases or have websites with current content?  Here are 5 reasons (in no particular order)

    Advertisements - many publications have business to business opportunities or job ads that you will not see in other sources.
    Directory issues - most of these magazines offer an annual directory that lists company specialties and contact information.  Many times the company breakdowns are more specific than in more traditional directories such as Scotts or Canadian Trade Index.  Expensive to purchase separately, they are usually included in a print subscription.
    Forecasts - want to be ahead of the game? The first or last issue of the year many times has predictions of where the industry will be going in the coming year. 
    Trends - want to track a particular wave of interest in a certain product or see what the next big thing might be?  Or what was popular 5 years ago?  Leaf through an issue.
    Charts and illustrations - unless the article appears as a PDF in a database or online on the website, you will miss out on what are vital pieces of information complementing an article. 

]]></description>
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    <title>Networking - a full time activity</title>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[July 8, 2008

Successful people stay in touch. They stay in touch not just with people who can do things for them, but also with people who they can do things for and with people who are just nice to know. Networking shouldn’t be something you do when you want something, but also when you are in a position to give something]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Mark McKay's retweeting on February 22, 2012.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jerryking</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By Danielle Gould on October 18, 2011]]></description>
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    <title>Blog | Skilled Trades | Skilled Trades</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-15T13:56:15+00:00</dc:date>
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