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I’m Joining CrowdFlower’s Board

I was asked to join CrowdFlower‘s Board of Directors this week – and gladly accepted.  I did so for the following reasons: I really understand the space.  Jigsaw was one of the original crowdsourcing business models. I really like CrowdFlower’s model and market leadership.  I think this company is going to do great things. I [...]

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by on March 23, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on March 23, 2012

http://jimfowler.com/website/2012/03/joining-crowdflowers-board/

They Do Listen!

Last week I was asked by my buddy Jack Porter of Forward Innovations to speak at one of his Entrepreneur Boot Camps.  It was a fireside chat format and I got to do a lot of what I like to do best: talk.  I told the room of mostly young tech entrepreneurs a lot of [...]

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by on March 7, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on March 7, 2012

http://jimfowler.com/website/2012/03/they-do-listen/

DNA Is Hard To Change

I wrote this post as Blog Post #1 for InfoArmy: After we sold Jigsaw I had a year at Salesforce to think about what I did right and what I did wrong as CEO.  One of the things I did wrong was not get a design and deliverability framework in place from the very beginning. [...]

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by on November 1, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on November 1, 2011

http://jimfowler.com/website/2011/11/dna-is-hard-to-change/

Waiting for “Superman”

I finally watched “Waiting for “Superman” a couple of nights ago.  If you haven’t seen the movie I would recommend you watch it before reading the rest of this post.  It is a must see if you care at all about education. The movie really spoke to me as a long time supporter of School [...]

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by on April 14, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on April 14, 2011

http://jimfowler.com/website/2011/04/waiting-for-superman/

Small Business Summit 2011

I’m on Virgin America (it still rocks) back to SFO from NYC.  I spoke at the Small Business Summit 2011 yesterday and wanted to pass on some thoughts. First, Ramon Ray, the conference organizer is an insanely great guy.  I’ve known him for years as he has written and blogged about Jigsaw kindly many times.  [...]

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by on March 9, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on March 9, 2011

http://jimfowler.com/website/2011/03/small-business-summit-2011/

GM Bailout Costs Taxpayers $7B

Executive Overview: Bailing out GM has cost taxpayers $7B in realized loss and $19B in unrealized loss GM is a zombie company that should have been allowed to die and rise again Winners: GM’s employees and pensioners, vote-buying politicians Losers: taxpayers, GM’s future Full Post: When GM was bailed out during the financial crisis, first [...]

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by on February 24, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on February 24, 2011

http://jimfowler.com/website/2011/02/bailing-out-gm-costs-taxpayers-7b/

Vail is Fun!

Right after Jigsaw got bought I got a call from a private equity firm out of Chicago called GTCR.  I had never heard of them but took the meeting on instinct.  I have found it is a bad idea to blow off money guys as you never know when you’re going to need funding. Phil [...]

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by on February 17, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on February 17, 2011

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Third CODiE!

I’m in the air on Virgin America flying back to SFO from NYC.   I was in NYC  for the CODiE awards.  It was thrilling to win Jigsaw’s third CODiE on Tuesday night.   We won Best Online Business Directory and Sales Leads Service.   I think winning a CODiE is the best way to fire up a [...]

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by on January 28, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on January 28, 2010

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What The Heck is DaaS?

[Note: this was a post I wrote while CEO of Jigsaw] DaaS – Data as a Service.  This post is all about DaaS, and how DaaS is going to transform the data model in exactly the same way that SaaS has transformed the software model. First, let’s get really clear on how SaaS changed our [...]

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by on October 2, 2009  •  Permalink
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Posted by Fowler on October 2, 2009

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