Comments on: Fotolog, lessons learnt

By: Christmas tree

Christmas tree — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:36:17 +0000

love your articles. inspiring my idea to business

By: Resumes

Resumes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:11:36 +0000

Your tenure as CEO will always be an inspiring tale for me, along with the wonderful team that you have who I look upon as the role models that practiced absolute teamwork and promoted efficiency. I'm pretty sure that your successor will have huge shoes to fill. Good luck and have fun in your chosen path John. Kudos!

By: burdickrobert

burdickrobert — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:06:47 +0000

There is another link under the category of personal finance but it has nothing to do with finance. If you have difficulties in making payment, you can click the link named

www.wachoviabank.com. You will have an expert helping you to fix your problems and you don’t have to go out of

your home to get the service. What you need to do is to choose a button between the two “call us today” and “we’ll call you”. Don’t you think this service shows the

attentiveness and consideration of the Wachovia? It’s really good in my opinion.

By: johnrhawkins1971

johnrhawkins1971 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:19:13 +0000

Hello, I live in Australia and I can tell you that we don't trust our banks. In fact we are probably at a world wide low in the trust quotient, primarily due to the fact that we have the Big Four (banks that make over 40billion) colluding together (not my term, the regulators). The next one in line (5th largest) is at around 15 billion dollars so much lower. We solve monopolies and www.chase.com collusion not through social media but through social banking. Peer to peer banking to be precise. I expect the three new Australian social network banks to take off shortly

By: Pusat Belanja Online

Pusat Belanja Online — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:41:50 +0000

amazin' article, thanks

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:16:24 +0000

Hey John, thats a big post. But i read them all.
Im user of Fotolog. .com/heyy_oh of many years ago.
And im user from Tumblr too. I like so much tumblr
I want see my tumblog?
http://pablin.tumblr.com … well
Im from to Argentina. if i want my help. With Spanish administrators, in Fotolog.com or Tumblr.com
See my porfolio in
http://www.pablomacaluso.com

Well, im in my work, Grettings.

Pablo
My email is
pablo.macaluso@gmail.com
Good Job, Good Luck, And Happy New Year!

By: frank

frank — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:13:23 +0000

John, thank you for providing the needed leadership and for steering us towards an exciting future. It was truly a pleasure to work with you

Frank

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:50:54 +0000

Thanks R — thought you appreciate the “exotic” reference

By: RachelG

RachelG — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:22:58 +0000

John, A fantastic wrap-up of an exciting, educational year for me personally. I look forward to taking these and other invaluable wisdom learned at Fotolog with me. R.

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:22:34 +0000

Gen / Good to hear from you — I hope you are well, long time since we have talked, yell if you are coming thru NY

Fotolog was not meant to be intl, happenstance … just happened that way.

Re; backseat driving it was an interesting lesson — I have been on both sides of that problem!

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:13:36 +0000

John, happy new year. First let me thank you for a tremendous post with a lot of great advice for any startup business.

I totally agree with your thoughts re: internationalization. Internationalization is par for the course for any major open source project and is one of the key learnings for me in recent years.

Can I clarify that Fotolog wasn’t intended to be an international web service per se (at least from the outset?)

I really like this quote: “unless you are willing to jump in and take a job much of your backseat driving is as useful as backseat driving.” That resonated with me and I’m sure represents the feeling of a lot of entrepreneurs who get unintentionally sidetracked by their investors.

I look forward to more movement by betaworks and more stimulating discussions.