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Introducing Zapps, The Platform for Apps on Zoom
Introducing Zapps, The Platform for Apps on Zoom
By Ross Mayfield
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The Collaboration Software Market is Accelerating and will Consolidate
The Collaboration Software Market is Accelerating and will Consolidate
By Ross Mayfield
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You just got laid off. How can you turn this into an opportunity for entrepreneurship?
Before this situation, you don’t want to suddenly figure out what to bootstrap. If you are bent on being an entrepreneur, always notebook ideas and network towards your best founding team and seed. Whenever you are job seeking explore the starting option. You don’t need to skill up unless it’s for a job, you can earn by doing. Set up experiments and time box them. Do with others as soon as possible. Entrepreneurship is two things. The art of creating in absence of resources. The practice of doing to learn, where you try to prove a hypothesis, and at least push the frontier of your knowledge. Do this, repeat. Entrepreneurship can lift your station in life, and well round you. Risk grows you. Time seeking can be for you. Always be seeking.
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How can you make your start-up stand out in a crowded industry?
So much noise! Here’s what you do: - invest in the story, you’ll tell one across all stakeholders. This is your origin, how it contends with the present, and how your vision makes it better. A different story people can get behind; a movement. - get a name you can live with - position your category leadership - experiment with non-traditional channels. Hustle. - own your own media with this voice and operate, in part, like a media company - customer discovery to know the problem and language - make your product speak for itself, and it’s distribution a principle trait - cultivate community and influencers - borrow from the Cluetrain Manifesto, CIA Simple Sabotage Manual, Ogilvy, CAA, Ries on Positioning, Cults and Platonics.
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Stewart Alsop III and me, Stewart Alsop II, have launched a new podcast, Stewart Squared. Our first episode is rambling across the history of the…
Stewart Alsop III and me, Stewart Alsop II, have launched a new podcast, Stewart Squared. Our first episode is rambling across the history of the…
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A hallmark of most skilled leaders that I've known is, sooner or later, they come to grips with the fact that things will always be a bit messed-up…
A hallmark of most skilled leaders that I've known is, sooner or later, they come to grips with the fact that things will always be a bit messed-up…
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Hi LinkedIn. I'm finally out of stealth, kinda. I've returned to my roots of edge devices, bare metal, and safety. I left it six years ago to work…
Hi LinkedIn. I'm finally out of stealth, kinda. I've returned to my roots of edge devices, bare metal, and safety. I left it six years ago to work…
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Couldn't make this year's Zoom Developer Summit? Sit back and watch the playlist of sessions https://lnkd.in/gUDUechx
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