Author Archives: Ismail Elshareef
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Do Your Actions Reflect Your Priorities?
Leave a commentMay 14, 2013 by Ismail Elshareef
I am truly, wholeheartedly, fully and utterly in love with this video. It’s about seizing the day. Carpe diem. Making …
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Car Salesmen Should be More Like Real Estate Agents
Leave a commentMay 12, 2013 by Ismail Elshareef
I was on Trulia the other day helping my partner set up an ad campaign for his real estate business. …
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Annals of Hackathons: Hackomotive Is Not Your Daddy’s Hackathon
1March 3, 2013 by Ismail Elshareef
After running internal hackathons at Edmunds.com for the past four years, I got to run my very first public hackathon …
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The Secret to Success, According to Conan
Leave a commentFebruary 25, 2013 by Ismail Elshareef
“I think one of the reasons Saturday Night Live has been so successful is that it’s almost brutally unsentimental about …
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Entitled Much? The Yahoo! Memo That Irked America’s Tech Community
2February 24, 2013 by Ismail Elshareef
Marissa Meyer, Yahoo!’s CEO, stunned her company’s 11,500 employees when she sent out a memo on Friday that read in …
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Seven Practical Themes From The Lean Startup Conference
1December 8, 2012 by Ismail Elshareef
Earlier this week, I attended my very first Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. I was invited to sit on …
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Edmunds.com API: Driving Innovation and Partnership with Open Data
Leave a commentOctober 25, 2012 by Ismail Elshareef
I gave a talk at Mashery’s BAPI NY conference last week on the success of the open data initiative at Edmunds.com. I …
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Why Ask Friends Who They Voted for in 2008 When Votizen Can Tell You That and More
Leave a commentJune 28, 2012 by Ismail Elshareef
I know voting records are public. Notwithstanding, I was a little annoyed to learn that some of my seemingly apolitical …
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Five Lessons Learned at The Reinvent Business Hackathon
1June 14, 2012 by Ismail Elshareef
Last weekend, two of my colleagues and I participated in the Reinvent Business hackathon in San Francisco. I’ve participated in …
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Lean Innovation: How to Become an Effective Innovator [UPDATED]
1June 13, 2012 by Ismail Elshareef
Yesterday, I gave a talk on Lean Innovation at the very first Edmunds Tech Conference. Before I started my talk, …
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