Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Last night I read Sarah Lacy's excellent post entitled Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia. If you haven't read it yet, you should. It not only catalogues many of the excellent startups that have come out of Facebook, but the emerging patterns amongst the bunch. It got me thinking about my own experience at my previous startup, imeem. When I think back on imeem, I always felt that we had an incredible group of fascinating, talented, and ambitious people.

Entertainment 60

Entertainment Startups Development Management 60

Bryce York

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

According to Fast Company magazine and a study by MIT, paying people to be creative or productive is often counter productive. The MIT study offered three levels of monetary incentive correlating to the level of success. When the system was tested against menial, mechanical tasks the incentives worked exceptionally well. However, once even even a slight amount of cognition was needed, the larger the reward the worse the participants performed.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Today I’m excited to announce the launch of my latest venture, Connected. Connected is a personal relationship manager that brings your contacts and conversations together in one place. It integrates with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Voice to make it easier than ever before to stay on top of your most important relationships.

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Bryce York

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Have you ever seen a business pitch that was brilliant? Have you ever seen a business pitch that was incredibly interesting, creative and clever yet lacked something and left you wondering “… but why?” All to often early stage entrepreneurs (I’ve definitely been guilty of this) make a crucial mistake. Entrepreneurs of all levels of experience forget once in a while, and forget to ask the market a simple set of questions.

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Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

Product Management

Bryce York

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As a seed stage business, it is often tempting to raise money to give you business a kick start. More money means more options, right? What experts such as Mark Suster believe, as well as myself, is that there is a fine line between enough capital and too much capital. Especially in the seed stage. Think about it this way: Let’s treat the capital as rocket fuel and your business as a rocket.

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