Quotes by Ryan Holmes - Page 2

If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place.
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Birthday
Lying
Surprise
Catch
Hide
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I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work.
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Farming
Hard Work
Young Age
Teachers
Grid
Log
Vernon
Work Hard
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Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
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Dropping
Embrace
Grounding
Indulgence
Lifestyle
Slipping
Spending
Throwing
Boats
Cycle
Estate
Real Estate
Tech
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Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.
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Code
Lipstick
Base
Designers
Existing
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Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
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Blogs
Nurture
Posts
Tools
Networks
Departments
Forum
Leads
Openings
Sales
Squads
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A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
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Boost
Borrowing
Collaboration
Efficiency
Features
Likes
New Business
Phones
Promise
Tools
Facebook
Facebook And Twitter
Near
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Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.
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Encouraging
Computer Science
Providing
Participate
Public Schools
Rewrite
Tech
Schools
Stereotypes
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Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.
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Canada
Credit
Credit Card
Hometown
Pizza
Summer
Money I Am Me
Card
Money Me I Am
Dropped
Limit
Rural
Seed
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Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.
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Chatting
Outrageous
Video
App
Big Thing
Complications
Photo
Planned
Service
Sharing
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By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.
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Activity
Amplify
Marketing
Monitoring
Objectives
Organizational
Tactics
Tied
Weak
Avoid
Networks
Sales
Social Networks
Strategies
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I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.
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Mafia
Paypal
San Francisco
Francisco
Network
Reinvest
San
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I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.
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Bounce
Celebrate
Colleagues
Twitter And Facebook
Connect
Entrepreneurs
Facebook
How Many Times
Wider
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By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.
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Allowing
Apps
Developers
Multiple
Nurture
Partners
Products
Users
Contribute
Ecosystem
Integrate
Platform
Solution
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Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.
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Access
Behavior
Data
Elusive
Social Media
Unprecedented
Actionable
Social Media Information Media
Turning
Client
Preferences
So-Called
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The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration.
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Collaboration
Correspondence
Formal
One On One
Tools
Essentially
Remained
Unchanged
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Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.
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Chains
Clients
Distribution
Operations
Social Media
Track
Brainstorm
Forecast
Generate
Leads
Sales
Squads
Supply
Teams
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When you think of technology that gets people excited - long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists - the first thing to come to mind probably isn't thermostats. Then, along came Nest.
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Enthusiastic
Lines
Passionate
Reviews
Evangelist
First Thing
Nest
The First Thing
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The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.
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Apps
Authority
Budgets
Enterprise
Harness
Platforms
Plus
Social Media
Choosing
Entrusted
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For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.
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Articles
Extraordinary
Track
Basis
Content
Biggest Problem
Good Impossible Keep
Daily
Daily Basis
Good Thing
Images
Tweets
Web
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The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.
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Atoms
Brilliant
Investors
Partners
Standing
Chances
Entrepreneurs
Forth
Packed
Thousands
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Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.
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Advertising
Fundamentals
Marketing
Promotion
Spread
Doubling
Hammer
Leverage
Organic
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Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.
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Documents
Dozen
Drowning
Edited
Messages
Spam
Urgent
Attached
Version
Current
Emails
Forwards
Meeting
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When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.
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Kids
Canada
School
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An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.
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Exit
Influential
Individually
Primary Goal
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During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.
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Funding
Social Media
Opposite
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Blew
Dinners
Early Days
Fad
Fast Cars
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For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.
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Founders
Investment
Margins
Resourceful
Tiny
Wings
Capital
Chicken
Fiscal
Minimal
Rarely
Tech
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One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests.
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Canada
Mafia
Paypal
Syndicate
Vancouver
Employees
Monster
Similar
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Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.
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Blossoming
Demand
Graduates
Grows
Response
Social Media
Tactical
Tapping
Date
Programs
Professionals
Recent
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As social is where consumers' eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online company profiles. By providing their customers with a place to share content, social media managers can monitor and track content which directly relates to their brand.
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Customers
Eyeballs
Managers
Online
Ownership
Providing
Social Media
Track
Content
Brand
Businesses
Directly
Profiles
Monitor
Relates
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Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy.
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Confusion
Consultants
Experts
Inevitable
Infamy
Partners
Posts
Social Media
Decentralized
Mix
Motley
Rogue
Teams
Tweets
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Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.
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Contrary
Debate
Evidence
Popularity
Social Media
Twitter
Countless
Networks
Explosion
Facebook
Fad
Gained
Listing
Proving
Rapidly
Social Networks
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Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day.
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Hood
Wire
Alligator
Battery
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Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.
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Finance
Exhilarating
Investment
Landing
Spending
Finances
Monitor
Startup
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I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.
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Names
Thinking
Young Entrepreneurs
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I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what they're doing.
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Accelerate
Boot Camp
Canada
Program
Vancouver
Amazing People Doing
Boot
Camp
Amazing People Way
Entrepreneurs
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Tens
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My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.
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Following
Owners
Summer
Venture
Grade
Playing Field
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Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.
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Different Approach
Embrace
Homegrown
Prospects
Recruit
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Centers
Decentralized
Identify
Increasingly
Locally
Phrase
Ride
Tech
Valley
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Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.
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Developing
Exit
Finite
Homegrown
Innovation
Persist
Remains
Skills
Successful
Talent
Build
Companies
Locally
Recruiting
Tech
Tech Companies
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As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Computers
Code
Electricity
Battery
Countless
Wired
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As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
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Brands
Challenges
Company
Entrepreneur
Form
Research
Speed
Strategy
Today
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Today Face Your
Face
Apart
Barely
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Doing
Brand
Without
Crowd
Set
Fast
Float
Industries
Move
Sink
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One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with people are surprisingly old-school. Social media tools can improve the odds of a serendipitous encounter at SXSW, but old-fashioned hustle, palm-pressing and - above all - creativity go a long way.
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All Things
Dedicated
Digital
Hustle
Long Way
Media
Odds
Social
Social Media
Tools
Above
Conference
Connect
Encounter
Ironies
Surprisingly
Virtual
Ways
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When my company was first getting off the ground, we were completely lost in the shuffle, despite our best efforts. In 2012, however, we had a 28-foot-long, 15,000-pound secret weapon. To stand out amid the gala parties and blow-out bashes hosted by much bigger tech companies, HootSuite decided to take to the streets.
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Shuffle
Streets
Efforts
Secret Weapon
Weapon
Parties
Tech
Tech Companies
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Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
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Blogs
Chatting
Customers
Nurture
Posts
Social Media
Tools
Networks
Departments
Existing
Facebook
Forum
Importantly
Leads
Openings
Sales
Squads
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While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.
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Hiring
Managers
Networking
Printing
Realizing
Rising
Seekers
Skills
Social Media
Titles
Turning
Generating
New Way
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Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience.
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Clients
Decline
Distribution
Outlets
Relevance
Social Media
Traditional
Velocity
Awful Lot
Seat
User
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I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.
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Hard Work
School
Years
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