jeffmorrisjr

I use Roam Research for search, tagging, daily thoughts, and everything else. The software has changed my life and there is a growing developer community who is making it better every week. Very culty product that is getting popular quickly.

www.roamresearch.com

Fair enough. I'd say the titles are probably more indicative of the podcast wanting to have a diverse set of interviews. The Product Management role is much more focused than that, promise.

What are better labels in your mind?

Product Management is much more than "gets things done but doesn't have direct reports".

If you've worked with great PM's and been a part of A+ product teams, you would see that the set of responsibilities is actually much more meaningful.

Sorry to hear that! If you have any specific feedback or bugs, definitely let me know. I'm @jmj on Twitter.

You sound like a bitter ex-employee. Why would you ever waste your energy on trashing a former employer? Go build something else - it's a much better use of your time.

Good question. As I understand it, their ability to "support" these communities is more about building out these communities internally and allocating technical resources to non-enterprise channels.

Again, I am not an employee of Slack and do not want to speculate but that's my best guess.

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for the note. This is Jeff (I started Slack Chats).

As mentioned above, the team at Slack has been very positive about the project. I've been in touch with their marketing team to make sure we are transparent about our "non affiliation" to Slack.

This was very much a 24 hour project and has been very positive for building new communities on Slack.

Appreciate the feedback,

Jeff

Hey Guys,

Jeff Morris Jr. here (founder of Slack Chats).

I've spoken with the Slack Team and they are big fans of this product. In fact, I've had several team members email me to thank me for building this product.

I included the note as the top post to clearly state that this isn't an official Slack product.

The site drives traffic to Slack and I do not make a single dollar off of it (despite many offers from advertisers).

Hope this helps!

Jeff

@ganarajpr I would love this product! Are you thinking about building it?

We are building a community where venture capitalists and angels can inspire entrepreneurs to think about ideas.

The concept was inspired by YCombinator, who created a Requests for Startups site in September: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

“There are a lot of startup ideas we’ve been waiting for people to apply with, sometimes for years. In an effort to be more direct, we’re introducing the RFS (Requests for Startups).” - YCombinator

YC’s Request for Startups was a defining moment in the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Rather than waiting for pitches, YC made the decision to be proactive process by telling entrepreneurs about ideas that they would be excited to fund.

Yesterday, Andreessen Horowitz followed YC’s lead by releasing their own Request for Startups - and it was a fascinating list: http://a16z.com/2015/01/22/16-th...

We believe that every venture firm, angel investor, and company should create a similar list, which is why we built Request for Startups.

We are creating a place where investors and companies can post a Request for Startups and tell entrepreneurs about concepts and verticals that they would fund or partner with.

RFS will help existing startups find the right investors for their ideas, and will also help entrepreneurs discover their next big idea. Likewise, it'll help investors manage opportunistic inbound and proprietary dealflow.

We are starting with a curated newsletter that features Request for Startups from some of the brightest investors in the world - and we have plans to create something much bigger very soon!

A few weeks ago, I discovered private Slack groups for writers, engineers, artists — and almost every interest group you could imagine.

I thought about the significance of this discovery and why it was so shocking to me. 

A few groups I have found:

1) A support group for startup CEO’s to talk about their struggles. 

2) A private Slack group for the Bitcoin community.

3) A group for literature nerds who love talking about books.

I always thought of Slack as an enterprise product, and I never realized how many micro-communities like this exist. 

If you're in a private Slack group, please add it to this list. I'm excited to see where the project goes!

Awesome product. I would have loved this in film school or when I was a reader at a production company.

@spencerfry

Out of curiosity: why does your tagline say "makes it easy to put a smile on your employees faces" yet the landing page image features an employee who is not smiling?

I know this seems petty but that employee does not actually look very happy. Small things like this make a difference.

To the consumer, this functions pretty damn close to TalkTo.

My question is: how many times do you actually call a business to find out about inventory, etc.

I remember doing this in the early 2000's, but in the age of Amazon and transparent inventory on sites like Apple, it's a very rare use case.

From a business perspective, I love the idea of providing better customer service, and if this is a feature that customers actually want, then maybe it will work.

Onboarding businesses will be a huge pain in the ass. But you probably know that already :)

You can now see how long the line is at Blue Bottle in Mint Plaza before making the walk over.

Thanks for commenting.

When you guys launch in San Francisco, I will try Tennis Buddy. I think it's an interesting concept if you guys broadened it to more general athletic activities (as opposed to just tennis).

I can imagine this being particularly useful for pickup basketball and running buddies.

That's really interesting to hear - and seems very similar to the Etsy experience to me.

I've never purchased from their mobile application, though it has been on my phone for over a year.

The Etsy web experience is better for browsing and social discovery is much more intuitive.

That said, Fab recently announced that 30% of their sales are mobile.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/30/fab-mobile-apps/

@arbuge 100% agree that the non-mobile web has advantages over mobile - and that many people have become blinded to that fact. Thanks for the comments!

@adamio I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

We are a local marketplace and have created a platform for entrepreneurs and artisans to connect with their community and start new businesses.