…Dashlane was given the lamest startup office award by Fast Company. A badge of honor Dashlane was a good sport about, knowing a building doesn’t make a company, but it’s the product and team inside that does.
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An analysis of Michael R. Bloombergâs personal spending connected to his time and role as mayor found staggering totals on items from bagels to flights by private plane.
He turned down his $2.7 million dollar salary and took $1 instead.
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Having used my XBox One as the primary TV device at our house for a few weeks now, I’m convinced that the augmented cable TV experience is worth the early-adopter headaches (not sure my wife is though). I’m interested to see how Apple throws down with AppleTV and the kinect technology company they purchased.
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Many of our sales reps who cam from the enterprise software industry were accustomed to offering a discount. The discount had become their closing strategy when they had to make their targets. I didn’t think we needed that motivator, and I believed that our service was fairly priced. Discounts, I thought, were tied to perceived risk. Offering deals would compromise the service’s value.
Marc Benioff, “Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry”
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I originally found out about RapGenius when I used it to try and decipher some of the posts my 22-year-old brother puts on Facebook and Instagram (I swear it’s 85% lyrics from songs I’ve never heard of).
Business Insider links to Danny Sullivan’s commentary on SearchEngineLand, where he hits on the real issue for RapGenius – lack of a sustainable business model via licensed content.
“Finally, it’s probably an incredibly dumb business model to be doing a lyrics site that hopes for Google traffic in a time when Google, like Bing, is moving toward providing direct answers. Lyrics, to my understanding, often have to be licensed. That makes them a candidate for Google to license directly and provide as direct answers.”
Google Obliterates Buzzy Startup Rap Genius For Trying To Game The System
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No snooze button.
I’m a big fan of waking up early; I get up at 4:30am to have coffee, scour the internets for #neato content, pay bills, and generally get my brain booted up. I then head to Crossfit at 6am, then go home for breakfast before heading into work at 9am.
What’s your morning routine?
#neato v2.0 – live from NYC
I’ve always been a big news junkie and an advocate of keeping myself and my team informed of what’s happening with our tech space, our competitors, and the industries we care about.
I also like routines and love scheduling things on my calendar :), so every morning for the last ten years I’ve spent the first 30min of the day reading, saving, and sharing tech news I find cool and relevant.
I started sending daily email newsletters to my team shortly after joining Microsoft in 2004. They were a quick summary of the articles I’d found that morning along with my perspectives on how we should think about them as a team and business. The emails often got forwarded around and I had some amazing conversations with folks from around the company, including many that I never worked with or even met in person.
Along the way the daily emails transitioned into posts on an internal social networking site built by the OfficeLabs team (pre-Yammer), then eventually to actual Yammer posts once we had them up and running inside the company. I adopted the #neato hashtag from an internal OfficeLabs discussion list and have been using it ever since.
I recently left Microsoft in November 2013 to start a new phase in my life and career by moving to NYC with my wife Amy and joining an amazing startup,www.contactive.com, as Director of Business Development.
I’m continuing the #neato routine and am excited to be doing it as a public-facing site. I hope to share my perspectives on tech news and trends, but also some of my experience leaving a 100,000-person company to join a 10-person one. 🙂
Follow along, share your perspectives, or just leave a note to say hi.
Thanks!
-m
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