Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Start my own gig, bucket list item (copy only)
"Start my own gig" bucket list item
Each category has a symbol and associated copy
Each category is connected to appropriate other categories, much like the nodes in a network diagram (which is very much a technology thing anyway)
Money ($)
- Burn-rate
- Pitch
- A Round
- B Round
- C Round
- Runway
- Mezzanine
- Introduction
- Revenue
- Raising money
- Deck
- VC / Venture Capital
- Angel
- Close the deal
- Seed money
- Bridge loan
- Dilution
- Valuation
- Cash flow positive
- Equity
- Valuation
- Term Sheet
- ROI
Exit (man running to exit)
- IPO
- Liquidity event
- Google
- Acquired
- S-1
- Merger
- Buyer
Idea/Innovation (lightbulb)
- Brainstorm
- Feedback
- Adapt
- Innovate
- Experiment
- Define
- Ideation
- Discovery
- Iteration
- Measure
- Learn
- Talk to customers
- MVP
- Focus
- Velocity
- Validate
- Vision
Design (symbol TBD)
- UxD
- Wireframe
- Mobile
- Web
- Metrics
- Scaleable
- Execution
- Prioritize
Technology (gears)
- Development
- Agile
- Test
- Beta
- Demo
- Prototype
- Front-end
- Back-end
- Database
- Infrastructure
Business (upward chart)
- Startup
- Start
- Success
- Early stage
- Launch
- Growth
- Idea
- Revenue Model
- Business Model
- Pricing strategy
- Business plan
- Financial Model
- Competition
- Patent
- Legal
- Organic Growth
- Licensing
- Pivot
- Partner
- Alliance
Sales & Marketing (icon TBD)
- SEO
- Pitch
- Introduction
- Early adopter
- Close
- ABC
- Social Media
- Value
- Price point
- Marketing strategy
- Collateral
- Advertising / Ad
- Customer
- Appealing
- Service
- Product
- ROI
- Positioning
- Channel
People (person icon)
- Team
- Co-founder
- CEO
- CTO
- Board
- Entrepreneur
- Talent
- Designer
- Hire
- Hacker
- Engineer
- Culture
- Sales
- Support
- QA / Tester
- Incentivized
- Motivation
- Energy
- Investor
- Networking
Place (icon TBD)
- Silicon Valley
- Accelerator
- Silicon Alley
- NYC
- Boston
- YC
- Incubator
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Bucket List Items
Category: Technology
Category: Family & Spiritual
Category: Physical
Category: Creative
- Start my own business, "Startup"
- Learn and become skilled at machine learning, "Conquer machine learning"
Category: Family & Spiritual
- Have a kid, "Have a kid or 2 or 3" or "Have a kid"
- Overcome the world, "Overcome the world"
Category: Physical
- Do a few of the famous Tour de France bike climbs such as L'Alpe d'Huez and Le Mont Ventoux, "TdF climbs" or "L'Alpe d'Huez" or "Le Mont Ventoux"
- Achieve Functional Threshold Power (FTP) level of 4 Watts/kg, "4 W/kg FTP" or "4 W/kg"
Category: Creative
- Assemble a non-embarrassing and appropriate design portfolio, "Create a portfolio"
- Learn to sing, "Learn to sing"
- Write a book, "Write a book"
- Start and keep up a blog, "Keep up a blog" or "Blog"
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
NYT Square Up responses PDF
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