Here’s the final piece based on Omar’s experiences on successfully building a business worth hundreds of millions dollars in just a few years. Today we cover Communication and a final piece of advice that he says is the most important of all. Communication Don’t hide anything It’s not worth the trouble and it will come [...]
Archive | May, 2009
Humanity 2.0
Last night, I gave a speech at the American German Business Club about technology and The Singularity, which I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. The audience was very mixed, ranging in technology sophistication hugely, so I pitched it at a fairly tech-lite level, which seemed to work OK. Overall, the talk was very well [...]
Skyfire Drops v1.0, After A Million Downloads
The team over at Skyfire have today released version 1.0 of their browser, bringing it out of beta. Skyfire is a “full” browser, like the well-known Opera Mini, but it’s even “fuller” — it can handle Flash 10, Silverlight, AJAX and Quicktime, meaning you can watch videos on YouTube and Hulu, and get the full [...]
Upcoming Events: WIP Jam at JavaOne, Mobile 2.0
There are a couple of great events coming up that are worth checking out. First, on June 3 at Java One in San Francisco, our pals at WIP are holding another one of their WIP Jam Sessions. If you’re a mobile developer and will be in the area, definitely hit this one up. It’s free, [...]
Omar Hamoui on Competitive Threats and Team
I hope you’re finding this series of posts interesting – I’ve had great feedback, so I’ll continue with a few more posts. Today, I’ve combined two areas, Competitive Threats and Team. I hope you find them useful. Competitive Threats Ignore the competition If you need to constantly look at what your competition is doing in [...]
Omar Hamoui on Sales and Marketing
Continuing my posts on Omar’s learnings and thoughts, today we do Sales and Marketing. Focus on the second sale If you aren’t going to get a second order from a potential customer, don’t bother getting the first. In order to grow the business you need to be able to build on a solid base of [...]
Omar Hamoui on Deals and Negotiations
Continuing Omar’s thoughts on startups and business, today there’s a small section on deals and negotiations. Understand what you really have to lose (which is usually not much) If you are a person with a laptop and an idea, don’t worry about messing up the 100m dollar business you think you will someday be. Russell [...]
Omar Hamoui on Ideas and Company Launches
As many of you will know, my day job is working for AdMob. I was actually lucky enough to be the first person Omar Hamoui, AdMob’s Founder and CEO, employed 3 years ago and it was mainly through writing this blog that we connected. Over 80 Billion ads and 3 years later, we’ve come along [...]
Once You Go QWERTY, You Never Go Back
I’ve been carrying a Nokia E71 for several months now, but I swapped back to my N82 briefly a little while back when I wanted to use its far superior camera (best-ever camera on a phone IMO). The biggest change was having to use predictive text again — and that wasn’t something I enjoyed too [...]
Twitter Local from the 1930′s
A post over at the excellent Daily Irrelevant reminded me of an old MobHappy post from a few years ago, when Twitter was just starting to scale. Basically, it’s a localised Twitter machine, enabling people to leave personal messages for friends and family. This was a coin operated machine from the 1930’s, where (many years [...]
Recent Comments