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The Next Chapter: Seesmic

Posted on09. Mar, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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With my role at Tatango moving from present to past-tense, a world of opportunity emerged. Within the first week of unemployment, I was presented with more professional engagements than I ever could have imagined. During that time, I worked as a consultant for several firms in hopes of eventually finding a place that I could [...]

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Why I “Waste Time” Blogging

Posted on02. Mar, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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I was catching up with an old friend the other day when she said something that completely caught me off guard… she asked, “why do you waste time blogging?” As the words left her mouth, I didn’t quite know how to respond. I guess I had never really thought about it, it was just something [...]

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A Chat With The Big Deal Himself – Neil Patel

Posted on18. Feb, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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If you’re in the tech industry, you know who Neil Patel is. If you don’t, you need to… the dude is brilliant. He’s founded two venture funded companies, Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics, been named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top influencers on the web, and created a blog (Quick Sprout) that hauls in [...]

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5 Must Read Books for Entrepreneurs

Posted on09. Feb, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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I can’t emphasize enough, how important experience is to success in business. But as you’ll realize, as an early staged entrepreneur, those types of situations are hard to come by. That’s where books come into play. It’s amazing how much you can learn and grow from a single read. What I’ve lacked in age over [...]

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The Apple Effect

Posted on05. Feb, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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How does Apple do it? How do they build hype around a product that isn’t even in existence, how do they congregate the top names in press on a moments notice, how do they make everything they release so damn irresistible?
Aside from their products being absolutely amazing, the answer is this: They know how to [...]

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3 Tools Every Marketer Should Be Using

Posted on28. Jan, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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If you’ve done any form of marketing, you know how important numbers are to quantifying the success of a campaign. With everything you do, you’ve got to weigh the costs and benefits of each initiative you implement. Understanding that means having the right tools in place to make those decisions.
During my time as VP of [...]

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Do “Good Guys” Really Finish Last?

Posted on25. Jan, 2010 by Andrew Dumont.

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With the recent happenings settling in, I began to think about the timeless saying, “good guys finish last.” You hear it all the time, from family members to friends. But, is it really true that those who approach business with a lack of integrity, honesty and sincerity end up on top?
Sadly enough, yes. If you [...]

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Goodbye Tatango, on to the Next Chapter

Posted on26. Dec, 2009 by Andrew Dumont.

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As with all good things, they must come to an end. I have been terminated from Tatango, without reason and without warning, on Christmas Eve, no less. This obviously came as a shock to me and has left a fairly rotten taste in my mouth… but only for a minute or two.
Today, the next chapter [...]

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The Importance of Hustle

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Andrew Dumont.

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What’s the difference between winning and losing? Living the life you’ve always dreamed of or dreading the sound of your alarm clock? It’s a matter of hustle. A simple decision to work harder than everyone else. But what motivates a person to hustle? It’s not a switch that can be turned on or off. It’s [...]

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Project Management, From an Engineer’s Perspective

Posted on12. Dec, 2009 by Andrew Dumont.

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Over the past year, I’ve been taken through a crash course in the world of project management with the launch of Tatango 2.0 – from Scrum Methodology to Agile Software Development. For those of you that don’t know, project management in the tech world is the process of planning out necessary site changes, speccing out [...]