Posts Tagged ‘Start Ups’
Correcting Myself
Posted by Jamie Hutson | Filed under Life, Start Ups, analytics, marketing, measurement
Ok, anyone who knows me knows I can get pretty fired up. And sometimes in the privacy of my computer I can get a little overzealous about my thoughts/feelings, especially related to recent experiences. I am also pretty good at acknowledging these blights, and when necessary correcting them. In the past few weeks, I think I may have transmitted some of these blights into this blog, so I’d like to address them.
I have of late been very hard on the financial markets and the coverage of them RE: their view on the internet. And in fairness, I live alot of my life on the internet, I run an internet company and I know a few people who do as well. However, coming across a few data points (particularly this one from Greg Sterling) about E-Commerce having basically flat growth and a few fairly average earnings reports, I think I was getting a bit ahead of myself. I know a good bit about the markets, I know alot more about the internet, but the internet is still a small piece of the economy, and as a whole of our nation, only the early adopters are really savvy to its power and potential. I guess I just never really considered myself and early adopter.
On a second point, I recently remarked on a meeting I had a few weeks ago and used the term “don’t get it.” After reading this post from Mark Cuban, I realized that in some way I was being lazy when discussing the potential project. I didn’t drill “it” down enough for them. Although I never actually used this term with them, nor would I (it is rather insulting), it hit me that in many ways I’ve rationalized deals that never happened or meetings that didn’t go well as them “just not getting it.” The important part of this is that it made me a little better, and now I realize I have alot more work to do to get to a level I didn’t realize I wasn’t already on. If that makes any sense.
You can’t manage what you don’t measure, or something like that.
I will break the sh*t out of you glass
Posted by Jamie Hutson | Filed under Life, Start Ups
Seth Godin again provided a great post this morning “Breaking the Glass” It got me rather fired up, and excellent analogy and a great example of why I think Seth Godin is a genius.
Break the glass, start doing what you set out to do, stop talking about it and do it. When you are ready to shut up and walk, things start moving, happening and growing. Inside that glass is nothing, just a vapid idea, something that could be, but something that isn’t. Its up to you and no one else to make that idea into something great.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Also, sorry for the profane title.
