I use Roam Research for search, tagging, daily thoughts, and everything else. The software has changed my life and there is a growing developer community who is making it better every week. Very culty product that is getting popular quickly.
Now I don't disagree with that at all, and have been involved with those things and many more, but at some point the definition becomes overly broad as to not mean anything outside of a specific organization being referenced.
I think Product Managements responsibility’s are fairly straightforward:
1. Figure out a what success means for your venture
2. Come up with a strategy that leads to said success
3. Get your team to execute on that strategy (and never forget that you can be wrong about the strategy, but you can’t fuck up the execution...since otherwise you will never find out if the strategy works)
Now implementing this is far less straightforward...
Fair enough. I'd say the titles are probably more indicative of the podcast wanting to have a diverse set of interviews. The Product Management role is much more focused than that, promise.
Personally I have a app crashing bug on android where a certain person shows up (always a few swipes in) and the app goes down. This means I get maybe 1-4 swipes before I have to relaunch.
The account always shows up strangely with a large blue gradient over the image with a star, and a blue star next to her name.
You sound like a bitter ex-employee. Why would you ever waste your energy on trashing a former employer? Go build something else - it's a much better use of your time.
Thanks for the note. This is Jeff (I started Slack Chats).
As mentioned above, the team at Slack has been very positive about the project. I've been in touch with their marketing team to make sure we are transparent about our "non affiliation" to Slack.
This was very much a 24 hour project and has been very positive for building new communities on Slack.
I've spoken with the Slack Team and they are big fans of this product. In fact, I've had several team members email me to thank me for building this product.
I included the note as the top post to clearly state that this isn't an official Slack product.
The site drives traffic to Slack and I do not make a single dollar off of it (despite many offers from advertisers).
How do you reconcile the comments you have received with the company's very recent public statement that "these communities are not something we have the capacity to support given the growth in our existing business."? [1]
Good question. As I understand it, their ability to "support" these communities is more about building out these communities internally and allocating technical resources to non-enterprise channels.
Again, I am not an employee of Slack and do not want to speculate but that's my best guess.
@jeffmorrisjr : Thank you for the validation :). Yes, I have been building a prototype product for sometime. Nothing out there yet - as far as I know.
If someone knows of a tool / app which does this for a web app I would love to hear about it. We are building bigger and bigger web applications ( and mobile apps these days! ) so my guess is something like this will help.
We are building a community where venture capitalists and angels can inspire entrepreneurs to think about ideas.
The concept was inspired by YCombinator, who created a Requests for Startups site in September: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
“There are a lot of startup ideas we’ve been waiting for people to apply with, sometimes for years. In an effort to be more direct, we’re introducing the RFS (Requests for Startups).” - YCombinator
YC’s Request for Startups was a defining moment in the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Rather than waiting for pitches, YC made the decision to be proactive process by telling entrepreneurs about ideas that they would be excited to fund.
Yesterday, Andreessen Horowitz followed YC’s lead by releasing their own Request for Startups - and it was a fascinating list: http://a16z.com/2015/01/22/16-th...
We believe that every venture firm, angel investor, and company should create a similar list, which is why we built Request for Startups.
We are creating a place where investors and companies can post a Request for Startups and tell entrepreneurs about concepts and verticals that they would fund or partner with.
RFS will help existing startups find the right investors for their ideas, and will also help entrepreneurs discover their next big idea. Likewise, it'll help investors manage opportunistic inbound and proprietary dealflow.
We are starting with a curated newsletter that features Request for Startups from some of the brightest investors in the world - and we have plans to create something much bigger very soon!
maybe its me. but the startup idea does not seem to be the big thing. the big thing is being able to distribute the startup idea through marketing. there is just too much noise with the millions of ideas out there.
Thanks, much appreciated. Exactly the kind of people I'm trying to target. Students in film school would benefit greatly from this kind of resource for educational purposes. I hope to become the defacto source for scripts and at some point approach studios to gain access to more.
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