http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/05/wanna-job.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/05/wanna-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-927 Devin Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:45:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=380#comment-927 Chris Wand came in and talked to one of my classes. His basic answer was: luck. Sure, some things can help you get there but it seems a number times the situations that get people into VC are quite happenstance. Would you agree? Chris Wand came in and talked to one of my classes. His basic answer was: luck. Sure, some things can help you get there but it seems a number times the situations that get people into VC are quite happenstance. Would you agree?

]]> http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/05/wanna-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-926 Brian Keairns Tue, 24 May 2005 06:49:17 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=380#comment-926 If NewsGator is going be the Enterprise RSS Company it's my humble opinion that things like job posting news feed are a distraction. I signed up for a number of high volume feeds like that when I was just learning to use a newsreader and those kinds of feeds were the first things I unsubscribed from once I knew what I was doing. I've also started unsubscribing to other high volume feeds like eWeek, NY Times, Wired, etc. What has made a newsreader invaluable to me is the connection to individuals. Now when I look at my list of subscriptions it looks like an email address book. All the RSS feeds that have survived correspond to specific individuals. Most companies including my company, CustomerVision, have either early or non-existent internal blogging but as that concept heats up tapping the often hard to get knowledge of co-workers will be even more powerful. As much as I have learned and shared through external blogs I know there are tons of thoughts and ideas about competitors, customers, product direction, partners, etc. that I would love to share with my team via a secure blog/wiki/CMS thing. A lot of these thoughts and ideas currently get shared inefficiently through email. At CustomerVision we are fixing that and hopefully we can help corporate America to understand the opportunity as well. If NewsGator is going be the Enterprise RSS Company it’s my humble opinion that things like job posting news feed are a distraction. I signed up for a number of high volume feeds like that when I was just learning to use a newsreader and those kinds of feeds were the first things I unsubscribed from once I knew what I was doing. I’ve also started unsubscribing to other high volume feeds like eWeek, NY Times, Wired, etc. What has made a newsreader invaluable to me is the connection to individuals. Now when I look at my list of subscriptions it looks like an email address book. All the RSS feeds that have survived correspond to specific individuals. Most companies including my company, CustomerVision, have either early or non-existent internal blogging but as that concept heats up tapping the often hard to get knowledge of co-workers will be even more powerful. As much as I have learned and shared through external blogs I know there are tons of thoughts and ideas about competitors, customers, product direction, partners, etc. that I would love to share with my team via a secure blog/wiki/CMS thing. A lot of these thoughts and ideas currently get shared inefficiently through email. At CustomerVision we are fixing that and hopefully we can help corporate America to understand the opportunity as well.

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