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Author Archives: Slava
How not to do surveys – Verizon
As my FiOS bill has ballooned to twice the expected amount, I figured I should check to see what of the extreme bundle I got a year ago has stopped working. After all, I do not watch much TV, and … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Web
Tagged Business, Customer service, Online chat, Technical support, Verizon FiOS
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Photos: St. Petersburg Dam
As weather channel was predicting 20′-30′ rise in water level during Hurricane Irine around NYC, I was thinking, would not it be nice to have a dam that would protect the city from just such a storm surge? Just days … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Photography
Tagged Dam, Gulf of Finland, Russia, Saint Petersburg
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There is a metaphor in there somewhere…
My Dear Daughter (DD)Â is very serious about collecting money. Right now it is for books, but that is not really important. In one of her musings she wrote, “I hope tooth fairy brings me $5, or may be $8, then … Continue reading
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 7: Revenue Model « Steve Blank
Really really enjoying reading this series. This is the kind of class I think makes the best Universities worth the price. The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. via The … Continue reading
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Tagged Business model, Education, entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, Steve Blank
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Business Models emerging – klout
As I spent a lot of time recently talking and thinking about business models, I was interested to see what klout was doing. They, along with peerindex try to measure and map influence across the social media space. If they … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Web
Tagged Business, Internet Marketing, Klout, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Social media, Social network, twitter
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Looking for feedback for @startupweekend #swnyc
Our team is building a platform for helping people achieve their goals. We want to know if our approach – using social networks, accurate and convenient tracking of progress, combined with SHAME through TRANSPARENCY and REWARD of PERSISTENCE make sense. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Social network, Startup Weekend
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The money has been sent! – PayPal
Slight post. I am not a UX expert, like kids @hyperakt [shameless plug for my friends], but I am sure that the way PayPal does things is not good. I can live with the busy design and small buttons, but … Continue reading
Online surveys – how not to do them
I get asked to answer a lot of online surveys, and usually ignore them. Once in a while a product I like will ask me to fill out a survey – and I will agree. Most of the time I … Continue reading
Enterprise Architecture – what is it good for?
I was at a meeting with a potential customer once, where we discussed moving forward with a social portal project. Their process – despite having some great people (!!) – compels them to spend months and years discussing how things … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Software & Team, Web
Tagged Enterprise architecture, Groupon, Information technology
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On Lincoln NYTimes offer
The people who sign up for the Lincoln promotion aren’t handing over their credit-card numbers: they won’t automatically start getting billed when the promotion expires in 2012. And they’ll also learn that if you’re not a subscriber, you get shown … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, NYT, paywall, Subscription business model
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