Posted on December 16, 2011 by Adam Nash
People who know me professionally know that I’m passionate about Product Management. I truly believe that, done properly, a strong product leader acts as a force multiplier that can help a cross-functional team of great technologies and designers do their best work. Unfortunately, the job description of a product manager tends to either be overly [...]
Filed under: entrepreneurship, Greylock, Product Management, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: product, Product Management, Product Manager, Strategy | 8 Comments »
Posted on November 2, 2011 by Adam Nash
In July I wrote a blog post about a proposed solution for running Quicken 2007 with Mac OS X Lion (10.7). Unfortunately, that solution didn’t actually work for me. A few weeks ago, I made the leap to Lion, and experimented with a number of different solutions on how to successfully run Quicken 2007. I [...]
Filed under: Apple, Personal Finance, Software | Tagged: Intuit, Lion, Mac OS X, Quicken | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 9, 2011 by Adam Nash
This is one of those simple blog posts where I write about a frustrating problem, and how I worked around it. The Culprit iPhoto 11 and it’s Calendar feature. The Issue When you try to import iCal dates into a Calendar, it frustratingly deletes events if they “collide” on the same date. Example Let’s say [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2011 by Adam Nash
Right away, you should know something about me. I am a die-hard Quicken user. I’ve been using Quicken on the Mac since 1994, which happens to be the point in time where I decided that controlling my personal finances was fundamentally important. In fact, one of my most popular blog posts is about how to [...]
Filed under: Apple, Personal Finance, Product Management, Software | Tagged: Intuit, Quicken, VMware | 48 Comments »
Posted on May 5, 2011 by Adam Nash
Two weeks ago, we celebrated yet another great Hackday judging event at LinkedIn. For the April 15th Hackday, over 50 employees submitted a combined total of 29 projects for the contest. We saw incredible product concepts, developer tool innovations, internal corporate applications, and even a few ideas so good they’ll likely ship as products in [...]
Filed under: Developer, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: H@x0rz, Hackday, Wizard of In | 12 Comments »
Posted on April 7, 2011 by Adam Nash
For some reason, I *love* Easter Eggs. No, I don’t mean the candy colored eggs that people make and roll to celebrate the holiday. Easter eggs are the playful name for hidden features, games, and funny content that software engineers embed in their products for fun. This was extremely popular in the early days of [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Microsoft, Silicon Valley, Software | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 18, 2010 by Adam Nash
Recently, I’ve been evaluating different solutions for upgrading my home storage solution for backup and file storage. A couple of years ago, I decided to purchase an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, which offers appliance-level simplicity to deploy a virtualized drive over a flexible RAID system. It’s a 4-drive system that supports hot-swapping of drives and optimized [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Software | Tagged: iTunes, Mac OS X, NAS, WD15EARS | 14 Comments »
Posted on March 11, 2010 by Adam Nash
This has been something that I’ve been thinking about heavily for the past few years. There is a trend in Silicon Valley that has been under-appreciated in the press, but nonetheless has rapidly swept through technology companies in the Bay Area. It may not be buzzword-enabled (yet), but it nonetheless may be a truly transformative [...]
Filed under: entrepreneurship, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: benefits, human resources, management | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 29, 2009 by Adam Nash
Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so no need to replicate the full walk-through here. In any case, check out this new home screen: [...]
Filed under: Apple, LinkedIn, Mobile, Product Management, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: Mobile | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 16, 2009 by Adam Nash
I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made faceted search available to all members. This effort brought to fruition efforts that date back to 2007 to completely [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: Faceted Search, People Search | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 30, 2009 by Adam Nash
Only a long time Quicken user will empathize with the trauma of having your Quicken data file fail to open. It happened to me this weekend, and after a couple days of experiments, I finally solved the problem. I’m posting this here on the blog because my Google searches on the topic turned up *nothing*, [...]
Filed under: Personal Finance, Software | Tagged: Intuit, Quicken | 28 Comments »
Posted on July 23, 2009 by Adam Nash
Kudos to the team. LinkedIn for IBM Lotus Notes is now in beta. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn Widget for IBM Lotus Notes Now Available Quote from Ed Brill, Director of Product for Lotus Notes at IBM: This week, IBM and LinkedIn are announcing the availability of the LinkedIn plug-in for Lotus Notes. This easy to use [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2008 by Adam Nash
A little too busy tonight for a long blog post, but thought I’d share how excited I am to be helping assist the launch of a new course at Stanford this Fall: CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming The class website is still a work in progress, but it will come along. The course is open [...]
Filed under: Apple, Developer, Software | Tagged: CS193P, iPhone, Programming, Stanford | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 25, 2008 by Adam Nash
I had a business trip to Boston this past week, which means I got a lot of good reading hours in on the plane ride across the country. As a result, expect to see some intellectually inspired posts this week. Tonight, I’m going to start off with an easy one – the most recent issue [...]
Filed under: Science, Software | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 14, 2008 by Adam Nash
Got to be careful what I say here. Mike Schroepfer might be reading. Actually, I was reading his blog when I found out that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out. You can download it here. I’m playing the naive user for now… just installed it and using it, without reading up on the specifics of [...]
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