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How does your company capture institutional knowledge?

Here at [meta]marketer, we’ve begun using an Evernote notebook called “[m]m smartzz” to flesh out some thinking around concepts that surface repeatedly in client interactions, so we have a shared understanding of these areas. The one I was just adding today is about taxonomies. It begins: A taxonomy organizes concepts and presents a representation of categories [...]

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Giving Nashville entrepreneurs a Jumpstart, and my Return on Involvement

“Given your background, we thought you might be interested in getting involved with JumpStart Foundry as either a mentor/advisor or an investor.” I’m sure it was a coincidence that it arrived on my birthday, but on December 23rd last year when I read that invitation in my email, I thought that was a pretty kickass [...]

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Jumpstart Foundry on Venture Nashville

[David] Corts and at least 51 others have been tapped as mentors and dubbed “the brightest entrepreneurial minds around” by Nashvilles JumpStart Foundry, which is an incubator and microfund… . via NewsBits, April 25, 2011 on Venture Nashville. Yours truly is one of those “51 others.” I think that softens the claim of “the brightest [...]

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10 Things I Learned in 2010: Kate O’Neill

Most of what I learned in 2010 had to do with — surprise, surprise! — running a business. I’ve been a consultant and solopreneur a few times in my past, but until I started [meta]marketer in early 2009 I had never begun a venture with the mindset that I was creating something that could potentially [...]

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Mention in Nashville Post about Startup Weekend

I was interviewed yesterday by Erin Lawley at the Nashville Post as part of an article on Nashville Startup Weekend, and that article came out today: Kate O’Neill did not launch a business based on last year’s Nashville Startup Weekend, but she said participating in the event helped give her the confidence to become an [...]

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