Ross Mayfield
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Head of Product, Zoom Apps at Zoom. Internet entrepreneur and the 57th member of…
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Introducing Zapps, The Platform for Apps on Zoom
Introducing Zapps, The Platform for Apps on Zoom
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The Collaboration Software Market is Accelerating and will Consolidate
The Collaboration Software Market is Accelerating and will Consolidate
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You just got laid off. How can you turn this into an opportunity for entrepreneurship?
Before this situation, you don’t want to suddenly figure out what to bootstrap. If you are bent on being an entrepreneur, always notebook ideas and network towards your best founding team and seed. Whenever you are job seeking explore the starting option. You don’t need to skill up unless it’s for a job, you can earn by doing. Set up experiments and time box them. Do with others as soon as possible. Entrepreneurship is two things. The art of creating in absence of resources. The practice of doing to learn, where you try to prove a hypothesis, and at least push the frontier of your knowledge. Do this, repeat. Entrepreneurship can lift your station in life, and well round you. Risk grows you. Time seeking can be for you. Always be seeking.
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How can you make your start-up stand out in a crowded industry?
So much noise! Here’s what you do: - invest in the story, you’ll tell one across all stakeholders. This is your origin, how it contends with the present, and how your vision makes it better. A different story people can get behind; a movement. - get a name you can live with - position your category leadership - experiment with non-traditional channels. Hustle. - own your own media with this voice and operate, in part, like a media company - customer discovery to know the problem and language - make your product speak for itself, and it’s distribution a principle trait - cultivate community and influencers - borrow from the Cluetrain Manifesto, CIA Simple Sabotage Manual, Ogilvy, CAA, Ries on Positioning, Cults and Platonics.
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It can be overwhelming to found a small business. Kamala Harris wants to make it easier. With an economic plan to boost small businesses that:…
It can be overwhelming to found a small business. Kamala Harris wants to make it easier. With an economic plan to boost small businesses that:…
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"With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can be confident that it will have a President who wants American industries to…
"With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can be confident that it will have a President who wants American industries to…
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The current or former CEOs of Ford Motor Company, PepsiCo, Merck, Starbucks, Fox Corporation, Paramount, Lyft, PayPal, Yelp, LinkedIn, Lazard…
The current or former CEOs of Ford Motor Company, PepsiCo, Merck, Starbucks, Fox Corporation, Paramount, Lyft, PayPal, Yelp, LinkedIn, Lazard…
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From the notorious radical leftist economists at (checks notes) Goldman Sachs: "U.S. economic growth would likely get the biggest boost in the…
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When I look back at where we were this time four years ago, it was...depressing. Maybe that's an understatement. Fortunately, our economic recovery…
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More small business starts grows opportunity and a lasting middle class in a way everyone can agree with.
More small business starts grows opportunity and a lasting middle class in a way everyone can agree with.
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After over 10 years at TechCrunch, I'm moving on to my next adventure. Being a part of this dynamic, professional team has been the high point of my…
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Founder Mode exists, it’s not well defined, and there are forces pulling you away from it. When your startup has around 12 people they don’t all…
Founder Mode exists, it’s not well defined, and there are forces pulling you away from it. When your startup has around 12 people they don’t all…
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Remarkable: "In a poll conducted just after Harris announced her economic agenda, we found that each of the 17 policies asked about is strongly or…
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