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Reflections on our SXSW Marketing Strategy 11 Apr 2011 | 04:16 pm
We've gotten some really nice feedback at Hashable re: SXSW, with some folks asking to benchmark against our strategy. We were extremely pleased with how things went - we picked up a substantial popu...
Being "Coachable" and Coaching 6 Feb 2011 | 11:40 am
The other day, a very talented NYC-based entrepreneur asked me if I could grab lunch with him. He’s the CEO of a company whose user growth is the quintessential “hockey stick” ramp. Needless to say,...
EarlyStager Changes The Ratio 4 Feb 2011 | 05:04 am
Hey EarlyStager readers, Come hang with us next Thursday evening when Change the Ratio presents EarlyStager Stories as part of Social Media Week. We’ll be chatting up founding stories, financing obst...
Company Culture: It's about the Employees 21 Jan 2011 | 04:33 am
Company culture is notoriously hard to define and measure but it’s critically important to the success of a business. In any company, no matter how small, the company culture is a product of the leade...
Silicon Alley Chamber of Commerce? 8 Jan 2011 | 12:34 am
There continues to be lots of discussion internal to our community and with local political figures re: how to fan the flames that are raging in Silicon Alley right now. Fred Wilson wrote an awesome ...
The EarlyStager Secret Santa 20 Dec 2010 | 03:03 pm
For our final post of 2010, we asked 20 friends from various corners of NYC tech to select virtual gifts for each other. As hoped, thoughtfulness, hilarity and randomonium ensued. Happy Holidays every...
Business Development - The Basics 23 Nov 2010 | 04:44 am
In large companies, business development usually means establishing and managing strategic relationships and alliances with other companies. Despite whole departments focused on this, it often remai...
Measuring User Engagement with Cohort Reports 18 Nov 2010 | 06:55 pm
Getting a reporting infastructure in place is always a challenge because it requires dev resources. The good news for your beta period is that you can save your dev hours for features - you don't nee...
The Curbed Chronicles: Don’t be a Jerk & Don’t Quit Your Day Job 3 Nov 2010 | 11:27 pm
The Curbed Chronicles are my attempt to share a few lessons learned from the early days of Curbed.com. To set the stage, I wrote a rather lengthy, navel-gazing first post about The Road Trip that St....
The 6 "Cs" of E-Commerce 20 Oct 2010 | 04:59 am
e-Commerce is red hot with trend-setting companies like Gilt Groupe, Rent the Runway, Groupon, and others leading the way. To be successful in e-Commerce however, you need to be maniacally focused on...
