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OnlyOnce Blog: Closer to the Front Lines, Part II: Closer to the Front Lines, II Last year, I wro.. http://bit.ly/4gHkLl
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Why can’t you use a wireless mouse on planes? There’s wireless internet on planes…are we really supposed to believe mice mess up nav?
The Gift of Feedback, Part III
Last week, I posted about my new development plan. I thought I’d also share a “team development plan” that we crafted this year for the entire Executive Committee at Return Path (basically me and my direct reports), coming out of all of our 360 live reviews taken as a whole.
- Push each other harder and be continuous in our effort to provide the team and each of us feedback and further develop: Improve ability to handle conflict as a group;…
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Coolest place for an Internet conference ever - glad I was able to peel out for two hours of sightseeing in Istanbul http://pic.gd/13658b
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Mentoring at Seedcamp in London today. 4 minutes is not a long time to explain your company, especially in a foreign language. #seedcamp
Mentoring at Seedcamp in Lobdon today. Same as Techstars…only different
Quote of the day from #Seedcamp yesterday - “Software is like sex. It’s better when it’s free.”
Great opening line of a sales pitch at #Seedcamp - “Hello, I’m John, and I’m about to show you something you desperately need.”
Sep
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OnlyOnce Blog: How Deliverability is Like SEO and SEM for Email: How Deliverability is Like SEO an.. http://bit.ly/PthT1
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How Deliverability is Like SEO and SEM for Email
I admit this is an imperfect analogy, and I’m sure many of my colleagues in the email industry are going to blanch at a comparison to search, but the reality is that email deliverability is still not well understood — and search engines are. I hope that I can make a comparison here that will help you better understand what it really means to work on deliverability - they same way you understand what it means to work on search.
But before we…
Sep
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Another Only Once Moment, Sort Of
I’ve never handed over the reins of a company before (no, I’m not leaving, and we aren’t selling Return Path). But I did the other day, for the first time. As many people know, last year we reorganized the company to focus entirely on deliverability and whitelisting and spun out Authentic Response, a company in the online market research business, into a completely separate entity.
Since then, I have been CEO of both companies. Although Return Path…
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OnlyOnce Blog: Another Only Once Moment, Sort Of: Another Only Once Moment, Sort Of I’ve never han.. http://bit.ly/uQ9mf
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Odd mix of features in this Hertz car — Sirius satellite radio, Garmin GPS, roll-down manual windows
The Gift of Feedback, Part II
I’ve written a few times over the years about our 360 feedback process at Return Path. In Part I of this series in early 2008, I spelled out my development plan coming out of that year’s 360 live review process.
I have my new plan now after this year’s process, and I thought I’d share it once again. This year I have four items to work on:- Continue to develop the executive team. Manage the team more aggressively and intentionally. …
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Dinner with @bfeld and @abatchelor ad Mariquita - 00/09/09 00:09:09:09 - very satisfying
