Startup Life
Technology. Startups. Venture Capital. My Life.
Josh Sookman
Josh is an analyst with the BlackBerry Partners Fund and with RBC Venture Partners, the Venture Capital arm of the Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to joining RBC, Josh worked at BDC Venture Capital where he performed due diligence on companies and markets in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors. He also worked at GlaxoSmithKline's International Clinical Operations division on an internal strategic project encompassing close to 300 people in 29 countries. He previously founded and operated an angel-backed online venture, CampusTutors Corporation, and he has a broad base of knowledge in mobile and web applications and services. Josh has a Master of Biotechnology degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelors of Science degree, with an Honors in Genetics, from the University of Western Ontario. He has also earned the Canadian Securities Course (CSC) designation.
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Posts by Josh Sookman
Effectively Communicate Mission-Critical and Relevant Data
April 28, 2010 - 11:22 am
Tags: analytics, bullet graph, CIO, communicate, communication, dashboard, data, decision making, Design, effective, goals, information, manager, metrics, pareto chart, sales, sparklines, Stephen Few, visualization
Posted in Books, Design | View Comments
Whether you are a CEO, VP Product or a Web Developer, you are constantly evaluating your progress through a series of metrics or analytics, and generally against pre-defined goals. But, are you using the right dashboard to track your metrics day-to-day, and does your dashboard contain rich enough data to allow you to act proactively [...]
Twitter Update from Chirp
April 17, 2010 - 2:03 pm
Tags: API, Ben Lorica, BlackBerry app, Chirp, million, queries, search, sigups, statistics, stats, tweets, Twitter, users
Posted in Internet, Social Media | View Comments
Twitter held their annual developer conference called Chirp on April 14-15th, and it gathered quite a crowd. I recently came across a great summary of Twitter’s latest stats, collected and published by Ben Lorica, a Senior Analyst in the Research Group at O’Reilly Media. Thanks Ben!
Here are some of the key take-aways:
1. Number of registered users: [...]
Please Help Support Camp Oochigeas
March 22, 2010 - 2:03 pm
Tags: 10k, Camp Oochigeas, Canada, Cancer, children, exercise, fundraising, lifestyle, Nike + iPod, Nikeplus, run, Sporting Life, toronto, track, workouts
Posted in Miscellaneous | View Comments
Thus far, 2010 has been a year of self-awareness for me. First, I kicked-off the year by deciding to track my workouts, number of books read, hours of sleep and how I’m feeling each day. So far it’s been a very rewarding and enlightening experience (let me know if you want a copy of my Google [...]
Social Media Revolution
March 18, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Tags: advertisements, Amazon, blogs, consumers, Facebook, fad, Gen Y, Kindle, linkedin, marketingf, Mobile, mobile devices, newspapers, social graph, Social Media, socialnomics, trends, Tweet, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube
Posted in Social Media | View Comments
Socialnomics put together a great video that demonstrates the growing marketing power for companies that use and learn to master social media tools, social networks and content optimized for mobile devices.
The video has a ton of very powerful stats on targeting and communicating effectively and honestly with consumers and show consumer trends that have only [...]