May 2012
22 posts
9 Deadliest Startup Sins →
1. Assuming you know what the customer wants
2. The “I know what features to build” flaw
3. Focusing on the launch date
4. Emphasizing execution instead of testing, learning, and iteration
5. Writing a business plan that doesn’t allow for trial and error
6. Confusing traditional job titles with a startup’s needs
7. Executing on a sales and marketing plan
8. Prematurely scaling your company...
WatchRemixing Summer (pt 1)
Guess what betches. My birthday is tomorrow!!
And this is my theme song.
“I’m about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is...”
– Greg Behrendt (via 33113)
April 2012
24 posts
Anonymous asked: Hi Alana! I wanted to ask you how you landed your job as ecommerce marketing manager and any words of career advice to build your portfolio in order to lead to that line of work. Many thanks! Enjoy your blog. Rachelle
Money Is Not Important: And the winner is... →
moneyisnotimportant:
Alana Taylor! She was the lucky winner of the $50 Amazon gift card!
Alana, just a word of advice. You’re going to have “friends” and “family” coming out of the woodwork to try and get a piece of your winnings. Just know that it’s okay to say no someone that says, “Hey Alana! It’s me, your…
Hahaha this is great :) What should I get?!?!
March 2012
8 posts
2 tags
“….Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seems always to escape it...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York (1949)
This could have been written this morning in AM New York. It still hold SO true.