Bob Potter

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Wed, 01 May 2013 08:08:43 -0700

"What are we doing to make sure that the ones working to disrupt Mozilla’s products is Mozilla..."

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:13:42 -0700

“What are we doing to make sure that the ones working to disrupt Mozilla’s products is Mozilla itself, instead of our competitors?”

- Product Design at Mozilla | Air Mozilla

"Every time you interact with a customer, you’re engaging in marketing. So… When you..."

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:44:52 -0700

“

Every time you interact with a customer, you’re engaging in marketing.

So…

When you bother 100 customers to get useful data from 2, you just paid a marketing cost.

And…

When you bring a little candy (which wasn’t required) with the check (which was) you’re using the transaction as an opportunity to do positive marketing.

”

- http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/12/whats-the-point.html

If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help...

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:57:44 -0700

If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.

— Tong Gaskins
Via DeisgnVerb

"We’re not competing for attention but for memory. People do and will use many sites, but they..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:03:41 -0800

“We’re not competing for attention but for memory. People do and will use many sites, but they just forget to do so on a regular basis.”

- I keep forgetting to use your app - Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog

"We had some well known users. Needless to say, Frederick’s of Hollywood got the most traffic...."

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:46:16 -0800

“We had some well known users. Needless to say, Frederick’s of Hollywood got the most traffic. We charged a flat fee of $300/month…I once calculated how much Frederick’s was costing us in bandwidth, and it was about $300/month.”

- via Paul Graham - Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

esbueno: Kyle Steed created this beautiful lettering from one...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:13:14 -0800

esbueno:

Kyle Steed created this beautiful lettering from one of my list of Thirty Five.

"The worst pre-existing condition we have in our health care system is our existing health care..."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:26:01 -0800

“The worst pre-existing condition we have in our health care system is our existing health care system.”

- Rakesh Agrawal’s response to: “What are some systems we live with today that were designed for a world of the past?” on Quora

"…we’re creating a product that we’ll be working on for the next ten years. Technology that’s..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:59:00 -0800

“…we’re creating a product that we’ll be working on for the next ten years. Technology that’s merely “state of the art” today is going to be old and creaky in five years. We tried to go a little bit beyond “state of the art.” It’s a calculated risk.”

- How Trello is different - Joel on Software

"I remember the first time I got someone to pay some attention to the website in that company. It..."

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:27:26 -0800

“

I remember the first time I got someone to pay some attention to the website in that company.

It was not my constant on the knees begging.

It was a slide (one slide!) in the analysis deck that showed two pieces of data (both as a pie chart :)), that 24% of the ultimate purchasers (through any channel) listed the company website as the most trusted source of product information and secondly that 40% of the purchasers used the website during the purchase consideration process.

That got me money for Analysts, and that got the poor starved web team two resources to improve the website. All from one slide.

But that’s the power of data.

”

- Tracking Offline Conversions: Hope, Seven Best Practices, Bonus Tips

"There’s nothing wrong with having a plan Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions..."

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:58:37 -0800

“

There’s nothing wrong with having a plan

Plans are great.

But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

”

- Seth’s Blog: There’s nothing wrong with having a plan

"Don’t tell me about your company, solve a problem I have"

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:05 -0700

“Don’t tell me about your company, solve a problem I have”

- The right way for a recruiter to cold email | tonyhaile.com

"The opposite of fear is not bravery, it’s initiative"

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:48:55 -0700

“The opposite of fear is not bravery, it’s initiative”

- Four things I learned on a round-the-world yacht race | tonyhaile.com

"Be confident in the great product you’ve built and offer users the most simple model in deciding on..."

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:01:06 -0700

“Be confident in the great product you’ve built and offer users the most simple model in deciding on how to use your service. If you focus on product and delighting your customers, they will in turn feel satisfied by paying for your service”

- Julia Hartz, Co-Founder & President of EventBrite, on the company’s initial mistake to employ a freemium model. Read the interview here.

moohq: Great tip from Amy Taylor at Brains On Fire - every...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:30:05 -0700

moohq:

Great tip from Amy Taylor at Brains On Fire - every touchpoint is an opportunity to start a conversation, so give them something to talk about.

"You’re making a million decisions on the way to launching your business, and it’s..."

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:46:00 -0700

“You’re making a million decisions on the way to launching your business, and it’s important to recognize that many of these decisions aren’t based on facts; you’re making hypotheses about how the future might play out. Identify your top three hypotheses that are vital to making the business work and create a plan to validate them”

- Victor Lombardi, Product Developer and Author. Read the full interview here.

"Get product in the hands of end users as early as possible. We waited 3 months with that first..."

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:30:00 -0700

“Get product in the hands of end users as early as possible. We waited 3 months with that first product, when I could have had high fidelity mocks in front of potential customers that first week”

- Ethan Bloch, CEO of Flowtown describing the lesson he learned after misunderstanding his end user and throwing away 3-5 months of development. Read the interview here

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:28:24 -0700

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

- Maya Angelou

startupquote: The world hates change, yet it is the only thing...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:22:54 -0700

startupquote:

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

- Charles F. Kettering

therecognitioneffect: “In a presentation on mobile marketing...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:22:35 -0700

therecognitioneffect:

“In a presentation on mobile marketing strategy, Jeremiah Owyang asserts that there are two sides to the sales funnel. In his model (which is similar to the model in “Flip the Funnel” by Joseph Jaffe), the action (or the sale) is just the middle step in the process.”

(via The Other Side of the Sales Funnel » SitePoint)