Lance Weatherby
@lance
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Startup advisor, mentor, operator, and investor specialized in scaling B2B SaaS companies. More importantly husband of one and father of two.
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Joined November 2006
The greatest example of price gouging in America has to be the price of flowers as Valentine's Day approaches.
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I have to look at a screen and type on a computer all day long in my work life. The last thing I want to do is have to use a screen to relax. One of the worst is @apple pushing you to use an @apple device to confirm making a purchase. I have a TV remote in my hand!
I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place. I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
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Getting up off the mat and working hard not to get knocked down again is a big part of the challenge.
My cofounder and I have always said: Entrepreneurship is getting punched in the face every day and seeing if you can stand up smiling the next. It's amazing how much alpha and compound success come from simply not quitting. Keep standing back up.
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RT @seanhenryatl: My cofounder and I have always said: Entrepreneurship is getting punched in the face every day and seeing if you can sta…
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@valdombre At $90 a pop for Old Forester which costs about $23 USD in Georiga it seems like Canada already has some pretty hefty taxes of some sort on Kentucky bourbon.
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@kevsandlin @MarkBuffBIP @Zigmanfreud OSU and ND were favored to win in 5 of the 6 games they played thus far in CFP. If you go by ranking, not seeding they are 5 and 6.
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@kevsandlin @MarkBuffBIP @Zigmanfreud Eight is the lowest seed to win a NCAA basketball national championship. Sticking with my story.
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This thread is very good at outlining a communications strategy for big strategic announcements.
Mark Zuckerberg has always been good at communicating big moments: Mobile, Messaging, Video, AI, and recently Free Expression. Whether you like or hate the actual news, the framework for these big announcements is worth looking at. I worked with Mark Z for 8+ years running comms at Facebook - and I got a ton of qs about it. So I put together a “big moment” communication framework called S.W.I.M.
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@MarkBuffBIP @Zigmanfreud I have enough data for a gentleman's wager that any team ranked 9 - 12 won't win a natty in the next five years!
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@MarkBuffBIP @Zigmanfreud And an eight team playoff would be ideal. At least four of the teams (Bosie State, Indiana, SMU, Tennessee) were clearly overmatched.
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@TheDemocrats To quote the great Natalie Merchant "It's nothing but a tragedy." You should be ashamed to try to use it for political gain. Instead of focusing on helping the harmed people.
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