3 days ago

Hacker News Image by digitaltree515 via FlickrLast week I hosted a group of NYC entrepreneurs who came out to hear from Steve Blank. It was a great event and I am working on getting the video online.During the night Steve asked the audience a great question; “when did Google launch?”It was met with blank stares as nobody really knew t (Read More)

6 days ago

Submitted by Erock from blog: click the image to listen!Auto-transcription:This is a test audio post on marketing.fm using the twilio a API and hopefully this works and you hear the post.The above post was done using the code and instructions found on Twilio herePost from: Marketing.fm - Eric Friedman You should follow me on Twitter Post from: Marketin (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: Image via CrunchBaseWhen consulting with companies about “how their website is doing” one of the first things people checkout is the Google PR or Page Rank of the site. To check the PR of your site officially you have to install the Google browser tool bar which will show you a small green bar [...]Post from: Marketing.fm (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: I was very happy earlier this week to launch an updated version of the Union Square Ventures website.The site was designed by Phoebe Espiritu who did a great job working with our team and iterating on our design direction and brainstorms. We ended up with a very clean design with a few dynamic features [...]Post from: Mark (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Google Operating System Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account. You'll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page.The dashboard lists all the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of co (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: One of the most powerful things I have learned over the past year is the immense amount of data that comes out of using a computer system, specifically some form an online web based experience. At Union Square Ventures, we refer to this as data exhaust, or sometimes called digital exhaust, because it is [...]Post from: Mar (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: Steve Blank, author of Four steps to the Epiphany, will be joining a group of customer development mavens on November 12, 2009 in NYC. He will be discussing the CDP (customer development process) and do a Q&A with entrepreneurs present. We hope to record the event and share it here.If you are interested [...]Post from: Ma (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Arun's Blog Image via CrunchBaseGoogle announced the ability to search, find, and play music via their search experience tonight.This is a huge business development boon by the companies involved and a major kudos goes to Imeem, MySpacePandora, LaLa, and Rhapsody. This also seems like a big win for the record labels.Below is a video t (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: CNN relaunched this week with a complete redesign.Along with having some smart advertising introduce the new layout, integrated well with the IAB standard units, they highlighted another section at the top of their navigation: CNN NewsPulseThis dashboard approach combines a few items you have probably seen elsewhere on cont (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: I believe that we are in the very nascent stages of social games which is evident by recent news that some old classics like Sid Meier’s Civilization is coming to Facebook.This is a game that was potentially finished and is now being resurrected to a platform that has become relevant. By bringing social features [...]Post (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: I recently read an article about 3 ways to pitch yourself and it got me thinking about processing and bottling up your story.The gist of the post are these three key elements:1. Think relevant, not recent2. Focus on skills-based versus situation or industry-based qualifications.3. Connect the dots — what ties it all toget (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: Image via WikipediaI deal with a number of requests all focused around setting up a time and location. Sometimes its me reaching out to someone and other times it is someone reaching out to me.These range from setting up a time to speak via phone or can include setting a time and a place [...]Post from: Marketing.fm - Eric (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: I was emailed an interesting initiative today about Google and Wharton (highlighting their new site on YouTube) showing interesting speakers discussing the current and future state of media and advertising as well as some handy tools.In their own words:Google and the Wharton School’s Future of Advertising Project are partne (Read More)

Aug 02, 2009

Search for "google" I am just collecting some thoughts about some observations and issues a ' while I am trying to understand Google Wave . (Read More)

Sep 30, 2009

Submitted by Erock from blog: To determine who your customers are you have to frame how and what current problems exist for a set of customers or companies.Many people however do not take this research to the next level by following the pain down or up the food chain to the point of origin down to the people it affects [...]Post from: Marketing.fm - Eri (Read More)

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