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What did you think about Jason Calacanis brownbag ?

What a refreshing presentation by Jason Calacanis on the new Netscape.... It looked very good, and exactly where the site should go....   I for one can't wait to give it a try. 

I was impressed with his passion. What a breath of fresh air to listen to his views.  I agreed with the majority of them.

Let me know what you thought!

 

Comments

Anonymous said…
Definitely refreshing to listen to someone successful who still operates in the run &  gun startup mode. I found his user insights to be very elightening and learned a lot from his intepretation of both the AOL corporate landscape as well as the web 2.0 user trends afoot. Was also stoked to hear that UnCut does not suck. Afterward, he said the single largest flaw with the UnCut site right now is ... ahem ... the AOL brand slapped on it.  He said the only way for UnCut to be successful is for it to be a standalone product/site.
Anonymous said…
I agree.  A lot of our UI is incredibly cluttered.  I think that having a clean UI drives a lot of Google's search traffic and Yahoo's finance traffic.
Anonymous said…
I felt like I was watching a fellow prisoner go "over the wall" and sprint towards the forest.  Go, man, go!
Anonymous said…
I found it interesting that if a small pack of bright developers are given high-level goals, left alone to develop them into products, and not distracted by a lot of beuracracy, they make cool products.  And QUICKLY.

It's relatively easy to make "start-up" grade products that look cool (spoken by a person who hasn't done that).

I'd love to hear a followup report on how easily Jason's teams got their product deployed by handing it off to the next group that scales it, operationalizes it, etc.  If it's too hard for AOL as a company to take great ideas made my small teams and make them work for millions of customers, then we're doomed.  Our future depends on doing that and making it easy.

I wonder if he speaks this candidly when he presents at the Dulles campus? :)
Anonymous said…
It was educating, entertaining and refreshing. His words and actions confirmed that no doubt he still has his entrepreneural spirits high. I am sure if any one of us had tried those stunts of getting a product out in 3 months without all the *RD's all hell would have broken loose.

I agree with his comment on slapping the AOL logo on every product that we release. A lot of people out there especialy the geek community don't see AOL as a company capable of making *cool* products. Hence we would be better off if we let these *cool* products create their own brand name.  Use the right brand in the right place. It may even help if we spinoff a company to showcase these new *cool* products.

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