Now serving social media in Grand Central…
(my day job. also my night job.)
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Bijan Sabet: Should founders meet every single hire? -
One of the hardest things every founder must deal with is finding and hiring the best people.
And it only gets more challenging over time.
In the early days the founder typically hires folks he/she knows. the early team can often be an opportunity to get the old band back together again
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Continuations: Offense is the Best Defense for Startups -
Once in a while I find myself in a product or strategy or biz dev discussion at a startup which goes something like: “we are doing xyz to defend against <name of other startup or big company>”. My reaction is to ask whether xyz is also part of what the startup was trying to build in the first…
seeing so many great photos of locamoda at the foursquare sxsw party.
FOURSQUARE PARTY! (Taken with Instagram at Cedar Street Courtyard)
Morgan Missen: What I'm Reading - Organizations, Culture and Self-Development -
Tech Company Culture
- Building an Entrepreneurial Startup Culture and Creating a Product Focused Startup Culture - Mike Karnjanaprakorn, CEO of Skillshare, a company that knows who they are and where they want to go.
(Source: morganmissen)
This and That: Why is NYC great and Boston sucks? -
If I ever sit on another panel to discuss “Why is NYC great and Boston sucks?” I am going to throw up. This was the topic at the NVCA panel discussion I participated today as a budding NEVCA board member (NEVCA: New England Venture Capital Association not to be confused with the NVCA: National…
Lately, I ask myself “is this from China?” Perhaps I should rephrase the question and think “Why isn’t this from the USA?”
The former is a popular question that more and more people are paying attention too. Perhaps it’s the heightened awareness of workers’ rights and conditions globally, a factor that holds merit. However, I believe more and more people ask the question “is this from China?” for one simple reason. Fear. It is the basic emotion that we innately have to detect the threat of danger, a survival mechanism. Fear could easily stem from the raise in unemployment but for whatever the reason, the question that should be asked is “why isn’t this from the USA?”
Either question creates a complex response. I could write about global sourcing and manufacturing and try to explain the investments made by US entities in foreign markets but that’s not where I would like to focus the conversation. I would rather write about the people, cultures, companies and products that are part of a quiet resurgence in American tradition. Those that have honed their skills over generations and those that are just beginning to share their craft. The masons, fabricators, designers, shoemakers, brewers, distillers…the American craftsman.
Over the next few weeks I will pick a platform to build and curate what I intend to be a rich set of photos, videos, stories, experiences and people that are building.
When I started blogging I picked tumblr. However, more then a year ago (give or take) I switched to posterous because I liked the ease of the facebook and twitter integration for comments. Plus their iPhone app was better at the time.
Since Posterous threw me a curveball and totally redesigned their UX I tried to adapt and give it a shot. Posterous now feels overly complicated so I will be switching back to tumblr as my primary tool.
I don’t blog often but that will change over the coming weeks. I plan to add at least one substantial post a week regardless of the topic. I never did find a topic that I wanted to talk about on a regular basis. I explore, share things I like, past experiences and mostly reblog posts I find interesting.
Two years ago today, I stuck my foot in the door at LocaModa.
In my first blog post, No Free Lunch, I discuss how it took me over a year of continually following up with Steve King before he gave me a shot as an unpaid intern that lasted three months before I was offered a fulltime position. I thought I would share the email chain that got me where I am today.
Steve,We last spoke in February and it was to early for you to hire an
inexperienced sales guy.To be candid, I want to join your team and I want to become a
sales/marketing intern. I am fully employed but I still have the
desire to get on the ground floor and do what it takes to help build a
winning product. I have no problem putting in endless hours.I would be more than happy to discuss further when convenient for you.Cheers-Gregory Stellato
Steve replied with the following;
Greg, you want to sales intern here? Bust your ass, make calls, dial for dollars, send emails, manage campaigns, log hours of database transfer on SalesForce? If yes then let’s get you in. Thing is, when will you find the time seeing as how you’re working full time?How will this work?
SK
I was fully employed but I knew I had to be on the ground floor of a startup even though I had never been. Without anything to lose, I responded with this;
Steve, to give you some perspective, when I was a headhunter I was
working 80 hours, before I discovered the appeal of startups I wanted
to be an investment banker (100 plus hours)… I love espresso and I
want to bust my ass, make calls and be the little sales bitch that
could. I have said it before, I’m hungry and I want to get my foot in
the door…. so I will do whatever it takes to get some exposure and
learn.I’m not sure how things run in the DOOH ad space but I assume it’s not
a 9 to 5 gig. (previous employer) only allows me to work 36.25 hours a
week…. so I have plenty of time on my hands. I get out of work at
4pm, I’m at Central by 4:30 and I can make calls until whenever the
west coast decides to leave the office. I will work weekends, make
calls at lunch…whatever it takes.
Greg Stellato
If you want something, be persistent, target and go for it. There is no such thing as a free lunch and you have to Act as if.
