December 2011
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Emotional Experience (EX): The pinnacle of user...
Have you ever purchased a product or a service that just makes you happy? And every time you consider using it again, or repurchasing, you’re just happy to pull out your wallet and spend your hard earned money on it? Last week after hearing a company pitch at Shasta Ventures, I remarked to one of my colleagues that you know you have a winning product, when as a customer I’m immediately compelled...
June 2011
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Leaving Microsoft: From Redmond to Sand Hill Road
After nearly three years at Microsoft, based in San Francisco and focused on our BizSpark startup business, I’ve decided that it’s time to move on and begin the next chapter. I will be joining early stage venture capital firm Shasta Ventures on July 11, 2011.
The past three years at Microsoft have been an incredible experience. I’ve worked with some of the smartest people I’ve ever met, had the...
November 2010
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I'm an ENFP.
I just took the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator test, I estimated myself as an ESFJ, but low and behold I’m an ENFP. The NFP were marked as “slight” while the E was “very clear,” out of four levels.
More on ENFPs…
ENFPs are enthusiastic innovators, always seeing new possibilities in the world around them. Their world is full of possible projects or interests...
March 2010
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Long live SXSW: A brand marketer's paradise, and...
With all the hype and “SXSW-hating” over the past few days, much of which is focused on the overwhelming attendee growth and presence of big brands, though mainly written by an elite corps of self-aggrandizing people who make their lively-hoods on page views and twitter followers, I wanted to throw my personal opinion, that of a brand marketer, in to the ring. This is my own personal opinion, not...
February 2010
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“People say we didn’t communicate with Iran, but we did…when the...”
January 2010
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NetHope: Providing the backbone of humanitarian...
I wanted to quickly write about and draw a little bit of attention to a key humanitarian organization that I support, and who I think offers crucial services in a way with which many of us ‘techies’ can easily relate. Think about how frustrating it is when a conference WiFi system is overloaded and you can’t load a webpage or send a tweet; or when you’re at a large public concert and the cell...
June 2009
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Fascinated by Cannes Lions and what it's about
Over the past two days I have become beyond-normally fascinated with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Yesterday morning a spent two hours or so watching 5 minute long videos of their presenters, and this morning I’m spending time on Summize and created a Tinker page to follow the activity.
The conference fascinates me because it’s bringing together the most...
May 2009
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I am so mentally exhausted it’s refreshing.
March 2009
5 posts
Beer, girls, and a fresh perspective
Look at that sunrise – gosh it’s gorgeous, you can literally see the “god rays” splayed across the sky lighting up Ipanema beach. The water is cold rushing below my knees and I roll my head back laughing deep within my belly. I open my eyes and in front of me are people with whom I have memories and history, we have inside jokes, we poke at each other’s insecurities, and we seek the most...
February 2009
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Long time, no see
Wow. I just realized that I haven’t posted here in quite some time. How’s that for a New Year’s resolution…?
Oh well, I have been busy, productive and been having a killer time, I can’t complain.
During the last week of January I traveled across the US with one of Microsoft’s Corporate Vice Presidents to promote BizSpark. It was an interesting experience and...
January 2009
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Touchpoint
Do you ever have an occurrence in your life, perhaps a chance encounter, a meeting with an old friend, or a familiar smell that shakes your life to the core? It causes instant introspection and evaluation of where you are, how you got here, and makes you think of all the things that have happened since your last touchpoint.
We get so caught up in our daily lives and progressing from spot E to...
December 2008
10 posts
WatchThe Amazing Yodling Pickle, on Christmas Eve.
The addiction to the unknown
There is nothing better than the electrifying excitement of anticipation of the unknown.
It’s a feeling that I started becoming familiar with late in high school - as my mommy-based life was coming to an end and the precipice of college grew ever nearer. The feeling can be mistaken for anxiety, even dread if the change is large enough, but it’s one of the most addiciting feelings...
Time to start blogging
I know that it may sound dumb, but I’ve decided that it’s time to take up the new pastime of blogging.
One would imagine that I would have taken this up previously considering I was employed by a professional blog for nearly a year. Nope.
One wouldn’t describe me as an early adopter, certainly not. I only joined Twitter last March, I got my first iPhone two months ago, and...
