As a startup founder myself I spend a lot of time reading and (writing). One thing I look forward to is listening to Podcasts. Here are 5 I frequent. They push my thoughts Masters of Scale – Hosted by Reid Hoffman it is wonderfully produced and brings in a lot of insights as founders open up like never before.
A lot of what we do online, posting videos, writing blogs or articles has been driven by the desire to garner likes. Now every company is a media company, inbound is your go to market tool driven by original content, in turn driven by likes, click-baits and similar basic appeals – it is time to stop and think.
About a year back Nicolas de Kouchkovsky wrote about the rise of intent data. He described how intent is being captured : “Intent data …encompass signals and data about prospective buyers or businesses actively researching products or services. …, the ability to detect that an unusual number of visitors that can be traced to the same company are educating themselves about network anomaly detection will give you a likely security pain point to start engaging.”
The day after Apple reveals their juicy new iPhones I thought it would be appropriate to point at the elephant in the room. The issue is real. We are all spending enormous time staring at our phone. Lot has been written on the ills of this. I spend 2-3 hours on my phone a day and get a lot of work done using my phone as an extended screen of my laptop. I have no games. But I do get a lot of notifications from apps. These distract me often. This article by Ryan Holiday on Forge addresses this issue head-on.
Today Saastock, the definitive SAAS conference from Dublin (now 6 conferences globally and counting) founded by Alexander Theuma , published a list of the most promising saas companies of 2018. It includes companies from eCommerce marketing, community knowledge management, customer engagement, HRMC – well a wide gamut. Oscar Hackett provided the overview in this succinct piece which included the following companies:
The Startup Genome Report for 2019 was out a few months back and it lists the top 30 destinations where the startup ecosystem is thriving.
There is a definite rise of ransomware hits specially on public utilities and government services in the US. What is fueling this? An insightful article by Renee Dudley in Pro Publica sheds a lot of light on what is actually going on.
Vengreso, a digital sales training and LinkedIn profile makeover company has published a report on the State of the Digital Selling with Linkedin, 2019.
From time to time shortcuts to success ideas become alluring enough. A recent study by HBR found that CEO’s work on an average 62 hours a week and attends 37 meetings. How do they manage to get work done?
Jason M. Lemkin answers questions in Quora. In thousands. His answers have been viewed over 50 million times. Sometimes he writes about questions that will be asked. This post on loosing customer was one such.
