Latest “State of the School” note is out from Dean Saloner. In my mind, he’s doing a pretty fine job in his first year as Dean—I think most of us don’t notice it’s his rookie year, other than the fact that it was Bob Joss who spoke at our original admit weekend back in 2009. ...
Some pretty awesome content from successful angel investors in 7 minute segments. Thanks to Gus Fuldner for the reference: Watch live video from Y Combinator on Justin.tv ...
Everyone I run into this summer seems to be starting a company. Just had burgers with another friend who’s starting to market business casual attire—which is brilliant, because it’s pretty difficult to find that stuff when you’re searching online. If your regular attire isn’t cutting at work these days, check out Bcasual.com: Our Mission ...
White House press secretary makes good on bet with Canadian counterpart, Obama sends Prime Minister Stephen Harper case of Molson Canadian. ...
[by Ian Tien, cross posted on WorkPlayLove.com and PowerOfSocialTechnologies.com] To attend the Sundance Film Festival, I had to unfortunately miss @aaker’s Power of Social Technologies class. Transforming truancy into opportunity, I got to write up a special assignment: Reflect on the use of social media channels applied to a real world experience—specifically, select a number ...
@JulioV @esbaker @wync @kabbenbock @Jeff @coveroo @plancast hold Virality Bootcamp at Stanford. The talks helped the teams running social media marketing projects get a sense of frameworks and strategies for launching their own viral campaigns. My personal takeaways Viral Factor = X * Y * Z (if 1 > then it’s viral) X – Conversion ...