GNIP

A collection of 37 posts

business

How Did Gnip Get The Twitter Deal?

I get asked this question a surprising number of times, so I'm going to try answering it here in hopes of killing multiple future birds with one stone. The question comes in the "hey, can I pick your brain for thirty minutes" form, and winds up

GNIP

Can You Put a Price On Data?

Here's another Dee Hock transcription from The Birth of the Chaordic Age. He does an impeccable job describing the material surrounding so many sleepless nights while we were building Gnip (and while our partners were trying to understand their value propositions as well). If you're building

nepal

My Mug

Monastery InteriorA few weeks ago I found myself sitting in the monastery (above) in Taksindu, Nepal. We were witnessing a "sang" ceremony which helps us remove obstacles in life. It was a powerful experience to observe something like this at all, but then something over-the-top happened. Throughout the

software

Spending Capital

The Joker burning "his half" of the cash in The Dark Knight.Enough data points now to write this post without giving anyone in my portfolio away, and enough that I feel like I see a pattern. I'm seeing a lot of first-round/seed stage capital

photography

jud@gnip.com is no more

I decided not to stay on through the acquisition [https://blog.twitter.com/2014/twitter-welcomes-gnip-to-the-flock]. I'm no longer with Gnip/Twitter. There was no drama around the decision. It was the right choice for me, though it is of course bittersweet. I have no plans to "do

photography

Day In Pictures: Another Tuesday!?!

For some reason these apparently happen on Tuesdays. I thought they were random.? Getting ready for school with my little pea.My son, "ready" for school early. He was reading "Java for Dummies" with his spare time this morning.Mark crushing "drop-off" at school.

sales

When Your Customers' Customers Sell For You

Yesterday, one of Gnip's [http://gnip.com/] (a social media company) [http://gnip.com/] sales people forwarded an excerpt from a prospect to our internal all-company alias. In it, the prospect was reaching out to us because their customers/prospects were asking that they use Gnip's

career

Career Motivation And New Levels

A good friend just forwarded me this article about a chef we keep track of and his new restaurant [http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2013/09/first_look_acorn_opens_source_photos.php] . This quote hit me, and him, just right. > "Whenever I go to New York, I

company

When Are You No Longer A Startup?

In the past six hours, the topic of whether or not a company is a startup, or not, has come up a half-dozen times. I've been meaning to post my thoughts on the topic. Gnip [http://gnip.com/] (a social media company [http://gnip.com/]) is a high-growth

management

Deliberate Action

I was just responding to an internal email thread at Gnip [http://gnip.com/] and the following came out. As I re-read it, I thought it might make a good blog post. Here it is. One of the most valuable things we have is our deliberate, conscious, and directed trajectory.

company

Trajectories

My company, Gnip (a social media company) [http://gnip.com/], blew the doors off of 2012 [http://blog.gnip.com/gnip-2012/]. The business grew tremendously, we saw concrete manifestation of an ecosystem we've visualized since the beginning, and the product lit up business after business with the public

management

Speak the Unspoken

Gnip (a social media company [http://gnip.com/]) grew a lot in 2012. We did a lot a of things really well (we have an experienced, proven, management team), but I personally botched a least one thing. I let certain aspects of process and reasons for doing certain things go

management

Zero Chance

"We have zero chance." I overheard someone say this the other day. Basked in innovative and dynamic communities (Boulder & San Francisco), I hadn't heard those words uttered in a long time. In fact, I can't remember when I last heard them. It caused

hiring

Too Many Software Chefs?

When we started Gnip (a social media company [http://gnip.com/]) nearly five years ago, it was a blank slate. I vowed to only hire the best, most experienced, software builders & artists. Sure "best" is subjective, but we'd define it ourselves and nail it. "

conference

Hosting A Conference: Big Boulder 2012

If you've considered putting on a conference at your company, you might glean something from our experience. My company, Gnip (a social media company) [http://gnip.com/], held its first conference this summer (Big Boulder [http://bigboulderconf.com/]). You can also read about it on the Gnip blog

company

Overwhelmed With Joy

WARNING, this post runs into high corny factor in a hurry. I'm also going pretty stream-of-consciousness-style because I'm too tired to polish and think clearly. some of the exalted Gnip team24 hours ago Gnip's (the social media [http://gnip.com/] API) Big Boulder conference

management

CEO: Helping or Hurting?

A thought provoking exchange with someone on the Gnip [http://gnip.com/] team last night, wound up revealing a behavior I've developed, unconsciously, as CEO. As CEO of a 25+ person company (Gnip's at around 40) you can't deep dive on as many challenges

capitalism

My First Pitch Deck

While working at a large company back in 2006, my frustration with lacking innovation reached threshold and I a) wanted to do something inspirational again, and b) wanted to finally plant my roots down in Boulder. I blogged about my ultimate leap into the abyss, and finally into my current

management

What's Your Exit Strategy?

Job candidates still ask this question a lot. I'm experiencing the current wave of it at Gnip [http://www.gnip.com/] where we're doing a lot of hiring [http://gnip.com/careers]. I'm always surprised by the question because it's vestige from

hiring

Gnip is one (leap) year old!

Yesterday (leap day!) was Gnip's four year anniversary. It's been a wild ride to be sure. It took awhile to find the groove (Bijan Sabet coincidentally just posted on this topic [http://bijansabet.com/post/18548961644/patience-persistence]), but patience and persistence paid off. Here's

social networking

The Commercial Data Ecosystem's Publisher Phases

For the purposes of this post "Social Networks" translates to "Publishers." My company, Gnip [http://gnip.com/], brings the public, real-time, activities created by users on Social Networks to our customers. From a vocabulary standpoint, we simplify things and refer to these Social Networks as Publishers.

life

Hiring & Poaching

We've been doing a lot of hiring at Gnip [http://gnip.com/careers] lately. While I've hired a lot over the years, I've never hired across this broad a role/responsibility spectrum before, nor in such a small geography as Boulder. I pulled this

management

Gnip's 2009 Rocked My World

After spending 2008 building a phenomenal development team, early 2009 tested me like I'd never been tested before. Half of my career has been spent building/managing teams, and I thought I had it dialed in. Along the way, feedback from individuals (peers, bosses, employees), raises/bonuses, and

programming

Dirty Data, Python & Gnip

I've been tinkering with Python (2.5) over the past few months; both in Google App Engine, and in free-running apps/processes. My initial free-running apps ingested "structured" content from a variety of web APIs, and would crash roughly every 12 hours, and would need to

programming

Google I/O: My Impressions

Photo from Matthias Schicker's post. [http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/fileadmin/mimuc/mmi_ws0405/uebung/essays/matthias.schicker/Devices_for_text_input.htm] [http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/fileadmin/mimuc/mmi_ws0405/uebung/essays/matthias.schicker/Devices_for_text_input.htm] I attended last week'