Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

When I say the phrase Burn the Boats, many people reflexively recoil at the idea, confusing total commitment with risk mitigation. The best leaders demonstrate a rare mix of confidence and humility the confidence to abandon their own bad ideas quickly and the humility to admit they were wrong in the first place.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

I recently came across the My Colorado Project when Jason Manke connected with me, asking for feedback and ideas about community building and online community engagement tools. We’ve really only just begun the extended roll-out phase and already we have thousands of new dollars circulating through the community. But it will be!

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Twitter has officially confirmed that it’s exploring the idea of a paid subscription model , and now the company has started to survey users about potential features that might be added as part of a prospective paid service, via reporter Andrew Roth on Twitter. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2021

For instance, after I’d been on TikTok for a while, the algorithm figured out that I’m a grown-up emo kid (it was never a phase, Mom) who is trying to learn French, spends too much time playing The Sims 4 , and is also queer. Use the discover tab to find trending sounds, hashtags, and effects. Click on sounds.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2021

The worst thing you can do is deliver a pitch that sounds rehearsed. Record yourself talking and play it back to get a deeper understanding of how you sound in your head versus how you sound to everyone else. It’s not something you can do alone—which means your donors’ ideas and opinions matter.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But especially during the pandemic, and the difference in how we as a company are approaching work, means it’s an idea that’s time has come.”. The idea is we already have channels. Both of these new audio and video features are still in the prototype phase at Slack, but Butterfield says they should arrive “some time this year.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unlike other “help to sleep” earbuds such as the Bose Sleepbuds II , they don’t generate white noise, or play quiet music, or let you hear rain or other soothing sounds. I started with the small eartips, but when I still heard sound getting through, I went on to the medium to try to get a better seal. How effective are they?

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Bike shedding refers to the idea that groups will choose to ignore complex problems and focus on the trivial in order to show personal contribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. By providing tools and support for people with ideas, the group hopes to empower Americans to change the world, one project at a time. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

FAQ : page with as many questions and answers as possible; when you’re creating this page, get a friend or family member (preferably someone not intimately aware of your work) to review the landing page and what you have on the FAQ to provide you with more ideas or questions to cover. Tip #3: Operate in public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Apps like Calm and Endel are exploring an expanding new universe of what’s becoming known as “functional sound” Calm and others are doing it in the meditation and sleep space, while Endel, which has raised $7.5 million, creates “functional sound” to enhance working or other activities. It’s now secured a £1.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Run, Inspired and Inspirational: In this phase, a successful, real-time integration of content marketing and curation is part of the fabric of nearly all aspects of branding. Add the ideas of your editorial calendar. 50 Social Media Content Ideas from Convio. 20 Different Formats by Pro Blogger.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

When I say the phrase “Burn the Boats,” many people reflexively recoil at the idea, confusing total commitment with risk mitigation. The best leaders demonstrate a rare mix of confidence and humility – the confidence to abandon their own bad ideas quickly and the humility to admit they were wrong in the first place.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The tech may sound mundane but it’s eye-opening and potentially live-saving, promises cofounder and CEO Noosheen Hashemi and her cofounder, Michael Snyder, a genetics professor at Stanford who has focused on diabetes and pre-diabetes for years. Investors like the idea, too. Because it does sound like a useful database.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2013

“We saw an opportunity in the market and we had the vision and the idea that this was going to be revolutionary. “You have to have the role and the opportunity that aligns with the skill set and the person — and a clear idea of what you want that person to do. We never looked back.”

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

An ideal voice application should include both, however for starters, it is a good idea to start with one to get a knack of it. rst glance, implementing a speech synthesizer/recognizer library may seem like a relatively simple task of determining the phonetic sounds of the input and outputting a corresponding sequence of audible signals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

That may not sound like much up time, but it’s nearly a 100,000x improvement on earlier quantum efforts. Recent work with one group led by quantum physics professor Zaki Leghtas showed that its cat qubits resists “bit flips” (the name for one of the two types of faults quantum systems usually encounter) for several minutes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

We’re entering a pretty interesting phase where e-commerce is for real,” Solomon said. “I The idea is to strategically acquire outfits with that money, then to help brand founders with capital and operations to accelerate their business from e-commerce to social, retail and beyond. He told TechCrunch he “knows Commerce 1.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder. Braid founder Amanda Payton breaks down the concept of multi-player, social finance into two phases: if 1.0

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

” To Khoury’s point, the pandemic normalized the idea that businesses maintain a local, but still digital, presence — one personalized to customers across different geographies and demographics. Given recent examples of AI gone haywire (see: Bing Chat ), that doesn’t necessarily sound like the best approach.

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Socialbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While content creation may sound challenging with a limited staff and resources, it can pay off in a big way if you use the right tools. This tool will make the brainstorming phase more guided and results-oriented. The tool allows us to: explore ideas and get inspired. Google Trends: getting a handle on topical conversations.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2022

With that in mind, we’d like to kick off 2022 by actively questioning the use of certain words—and what is meant—so that we can continue to improve by phasing out terms that might be overused, harmful, or inaccurate. A simple alternative could be to ask if there are any questions or other thoughts/ideas that people would like to contribute.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

You’ll probably want to have at least two phases to your own campaign. A “silent phase” will emphasize private fundraising conversations with your major donors and corporate sponsors. The later public phase will focus on raising money from smaller individual donors. You will also want to determine if your idea is viable at all.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

All of these, El Kaafarani said, are designed to work together, or separately as needed by a would-be customer, with the key being that what it is building now can be used today, as well as in a quantum computing future. Some of this data has been publicly shown off, and much has not.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Despite being tech-forward as it comes, the Ariya lacks many of the idiosyncratic (and slightly ridiculous) flourishes that Nissan likes to stuff into its concept vehicles, like a virtual assistant that’s also a koi fish , or a fake engine noise that sounds like a musical version of THX’s Deep Note.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Indeed, while many firms say they’re still in the information-gathering phase of what could become a sweeping new trend, others are diving in headfirst. AJ: I think a bit of a misconception is this idea that most investors in the public markets want to be hot money or fast money. AJ: Well, one step at a time.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

All professional and volunteer team members of the nonprofit have a role to play, and this starts with contributing their ideas and best thinking on where fundraising is succeeding and where there are opportunities for improvement. Be sure your assessment addresses the external environment. How is the local economy fairing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Specificallly, she challenges the idea put forth by Nancy White " The act of production is an act of meaning making." Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc., a continuum with many phase changes along the way. " I love seeing this through Loretta's lens of learning.

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2021

While COVID-19 certainly sped up the process for Senegal integrating its approach to health-system data, the idea was already in the works. The idea, with the funding from BMGF, was for PATH to work with local EOCs to integrate malaria response into their work.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This may sound like some distant smart home nirvana, but this is the promise of Matter. The idea was to future-proof a device likely to stay in the home for 10 to 20 years. “We Matter was just an idea when these devices were being developed.”. It’s easy to love an idea; it can be harder to implement and stick to one.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

She added that Nexite has further signed agreements with “four of the largest retailers in the world” — no names disclosed — that are in different phases of development, and is having discussions with 20 other large retailers. There are some potential hiccups in Nexite getting its business to fly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

I don’t like the way I sound or look on camera.” This planning phase is when you find just the right photos, if you are filming a montage, and get everyone’s permission who you want to include in your video. Not everyone is comfortable on camera, just like everyone isn’t comfortable speaking in front of a crowd.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The €1.25M pre-seed round, which was co-led by PropTech1 and Speedinvest, will be used for the next phase of development as NeoCarbon works on turning its current, lab-based proof of concept into a pilot prototype in a commercial facility — hopefully early next year.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

I’m quoting the beginning of his answer in full here because I think it contains the seeds of the rest of our discussion: The last couple of years have been a major integration phase for us because we’ve combined our Google hardware efforts with Nest. So it’s definitely been a building phase. Both ideas strike me as smart.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. It sounds cooler anyway. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In the early days and the ideas phase, founders lean a little bit heavier into what’s happening in the world in macro and in your industry that really makes this problem,” said Treyger. Thacker said entrepreneurs should be open to raising as much as possible during the concept phase to make sure they have freedom to tinker and iterate.

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