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The Toxic Nature of Email
By Mark Suster
I haven’t written a blog post in a week. I travelled for a couple of days for work and decided to get some sleep on those days rather than staying up into the wee…
By Mark Suster
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App is Crap: APPsolute Power Corrupts
By Mark Suster
I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. These phones were so over hyped. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones…
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New Nielsen Study Shows 75.6% of All Statistics are Fake
By Mark Suster
The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. Stats sell. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. People then parrot them around like they’re fact when most of them…
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Bad Sales Tactics: Crocodile Salesman
By Mark Suster
When I worked in London there were a ton of Aussies. I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. Pretty laid…
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Winning the Muggles: Designing for the Mainstream
By Mark Suster
Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “Techies and Normals” in which he defined “Techies” as people who are not just “early adopters” but also have more of a geeky, technical, product…
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4 Steps to Becoming Healthy with Digital Assistance
By Mark Suster
Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. That’s always stuck with me. I tend not…
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Productivity Hacks: Three Simple Tricks
By Mark Suster
I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest). Like many of…
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Establishing Social Media Friending Etiquette on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
By Mark Suster
I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning. But then people’s actions tell me otherwise. I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at…
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LeWeb09 Advice: How To Re-Introduce Yourself
By Mark Suster
Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences. If you haven’t read it, I’ll give you the summary version: When approaching somebody at a…
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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI
By Mark Suster
I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In case it’s not obvious, it’s a play on the Nike slogan, “Just Do…