I can tell the difference with my now-old ears, if it is a good recording of real-world instruments in a common space.
That is a lot of qualifiers, but on playback you can ‘feel’ that other space.
I believe that it is because of the way that the higher frequency components of the sound interact with the environment and effectively down-transpose and affect the rest of the signal before they hit the listener’s ear.
I second the Dodge Caravan suggestion, but would also suggest that you make sure that you get the Stow-and-Go seats option.
My wife and I find it invaluable.
It also allows placing one child in the middle row and two in the back with one middle seat stowed for when 1 adult is driving the kids around. This makes it easy to pull over, get in the side door and deal with whatever crisis has come up.
Sorry about the broad question. We are contracting in out, and we are in the design process right now.
I guess I was just looking for very general tips based on others' experiences. As an example, people we know who have had a home built seem to all have little things they love, hate or would do differently about their homes, such as build a bigger laundry room or have a bathroom near an entryway so kids and guests do not have to walk through the entire house to access it.
I thought the HN community may have some interesting insights.
Defining the results achieved by a certain age is a different thing than defining the qualities that you seek to nurture.
By setting results based goals, you are putting your child in a subordinate pass/fail position.
Who are you to define success for your child? It is their life.
By defining some qualities that you would like to nurture in your child, and implementing strategies to help them develop, you would be acting as a supportive participant in their development.
Milestone thinking can be very dangerous in this context.
"By defining some qualities that you would like to nurture in your child, and implementing strategies to help them develop, you would be acting as a supportive participant in their development."
I think that is exactly what I seek to do. The goals are examples, and very loose. As I said before, I would not be disappointed with my child for not reaching them.
Sorry, in trying to be succinct, I came off as harsh.
I'm not questioning your motivations.
I just think that it is healthier to make statements like 'I want to help my child to realize their creativity' or 'I want to help my child realize their programming potential' than to say that 'I want to help my child to do X by Y years'.
I really can't understand how the people that are participating in this discussion (on AVC and elsewhere) are failing to see this - especially given some of their CV's...
Fred has made three posts about marketing this week, and has missed the point on all three, despite being corrected by Seth Godin on the first day.
I can't believe that there have been three days of posts with a wealth of intelligent discussion, and still Fred Wilson is conflating Marketing and Promotion.
He is softening his position it seems, but he is still seeing marketing as something other than it is.
Marketing is the act of identifying a market's demand, and optimizing your offering to capitalize on that demand. It is what drives revenues in business more than anything else.
The problem is that advertising agencies and other firms that offer other promotional or consulting services have co-opted the term 'marketing' for themselves.
Promotion is a tactic that can strengthen your marketing efforts. Fred's point seems to be that paying for promotion is unwise for a startup. I generally agree.
He might also be saying that paying a costly consultancy firm to advise on your offering's market fit as a startup is unwise. I would agree with this also.
It looks like Fred has seen the term 'Marketing' on the wrong side of the balance sheet one too many times.
He is downplaying the importance of marketing for startups. I think that this is very damaging to the young entrepreneurs that are listening without understanding the context.
I am largely ad blind. I only notice them when they are annoying, and when I do notice annoying ads I generally leave the site.
It is hard to comment on your situation without a link to evaluate. I would suggest that if you are thinking this way, you probably already know what the answer is.
Perhaps some A/B testing is in order to tailor your site to your audience.
I find it a little bit scary that Fred Wilson might not be able to differentiate Marketing from Promotion.
He must be having an off day.
Every business needs to have vision for how its products and/or services relate to its customers and the wider marketplace. Marketing is fundamental to business.
However, I do agree that for many startups, costly promotional efforts probably wont offer enough return to justify the expense.
I find it a little bit scary that Fred Wilson might not be able to differentiate Marketing from Promotion
Glad to see I wasn't alone in having that thought.
Every business needs to have vision for how its products and/or services relate to its customers and the wider marketplace. Marketing is fundamental to business.
Exactly. If you aren't "marketing," you basically don't have a business. Marketing is just identifying a need, finding a solution to that need, and connecting them. To borrow from Wikipedia[1]:
Marketing is the process of performing market research, selling products and/or services to customers and promoting them via advertising to further enhance sales. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments. It is an integrated process through which companies build strong customer relationships and create value for their customers and for themselves.
Marketing is used to identify the customer, to satisfy the customer, and to keep the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that marketing management is one of the major components of business management. Marketing evolved to meet the stasis in developing new markets caused by mature markets and overcapacities in the last 2-3 centuries. The adoption of marketing strategies requires businesses to shift their focus from production to the perceived needs and wants of their customers as the means of staying profitable
I can tell the difference with my now-old ears, if it is a good recording of real-world instruments in a common space.
That is a lot of qualifiers, but on playback you can ‘feel’ that other space.
I believe that it is because of the way that the higher frequency components of the sound interact with the environment and effectively down-transpose and affect the rest of the signal before they hit the listener’s ear.