With Groupon mishandling its IPO, Facebook closing down it's Deals offering and Yelp cutting back on its deals staff, pundits are starting to question the viability of the deals market. Lots and lots and lots and lots of questioning. These folks are as wrong as those that said Facebook Deals would be the death of Groupon. Recently Jim […]
Continue reading →So give or take a day or two here or there I have been at Half Off Depot for 100 days. Time to take stock of what has transpired. I joined the company as employee 21. We have about 50 now. The largest department remains sales, it has just about doubled in size. We have […]
Continue reading →So we are hiring a lot of folks at Half Off. It's all across the board. Accounting, customer service, development, marketing, and sales. Our company wiki has 36 people in the directory now, but I suspect we have more then 40. And from time to time we do a little cross department interviewing. Such was […]
Continue reading →So Half Off Depot is looking for a social media/community manager. I am the hiring manager for the position and have been having a bit of a struggle in finding the right person to fill the role. Last night I took the matter into my own hands. I went into my Twitter account and started […]
Continue reading →Part of a email to everyone at Half Off Depot, a growth phase startup where I work. Here is my offering for the day. This one pertains to the lesson of General George W. Patton, and I'll call it: "Don't be a jackass!" To paraphrase one of Patton's standing orders, he told his troops, "I […]
Continue reading →Rocky Agrawal seems to be all worked up about the online local commerce world. I am not exactly sure why, but over the course of the past few days I have gotten quite a few notes about his Why I Want Google Offers And The Entire Daily Deals Business To Die article on TechCrunch. It is one of […]
Continue reading →I have a little rule of thumb. If you are working with the press on a story you can expect the finished article to be about 80% correct. Nothing against reporters. They are working on tight deadlines in areas where they do not necessiarly have domain knowledge. Urvakash Karkaria of the Atlanta Business Chronicle deserves […]
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