I am Tina Seelig and I play two roles here today. First, I am the host normally, but today I’m also the speaker. So I'm going to give you a little bit of my background so you know actually who am I besides of the person who usually introduces our other guests. I am the Executive Direct...
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So we’re going to talk about - so the topic of today's thing is from day one, I mean the top 10 things you need that you must have to start a business and I'm going to try to debunk some of the school and Silicon Valley and VC a little bit as we go. So #10, the first thing you need is comfortabl...
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What is the role of company culture in the success of a start-up? I know it’s a generic question but what is your personal philosophy about that? I want them to hear that. Well, I think by enlarge pretty much all of the most successful tech companies, by most successful I mean over a l...
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I’ve probably designed like a dozen computing products and I would say two are really successful, and maybe six were might reasonably successful, and a bunch of duds. I'll tell you my first failure; my first failing product was interesting. I was at GRiD, we had done the tablet compute...
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I want to talk about strategy now and I’m going to begin with a history of our strategy. There are all sorts of ways to describe history and I'm going to take a particular cut. I want to describe history in terms of what we do with excess deposits. Now, that may sound bizarre to you bec...
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How do you continue to innovate and make sure that you have a sustainable business model as competitors are trying to encroach? And let me apply that in a Shutterfly context and then maybe bring in some other experiences. There are very few businesses that are inherently unique and have...
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The question was, how did I get involved with IDEO for the Palm, and then how did that influence the product? Let me tall you a funny story about this. So Ed Colligan, who’s now the president of Palm, and was the VP of Marketing early on at Palm. We were starting to work on the Palm Pilot. The Z...
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Why we do what we do
