Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
One of the fundamental aspects of successful capitalism is the principal of creative destruction. In a capitalist system, businesses that are hampered with flawed business models, substandard management, unproductive labor or changing markets, among other things, pass away in a sometimes agonizing fit of destruction. New businesses, with a better ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
"If they didn't pay me, I'd do this for free." - Harry Cabluck
Have you ever had a job in your life where you felt like that? Have you ever invested your time and energy into a career where you literally couldn’t wait to get up in the morning?
Few people have ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Seven months and seven days ago, I asked some friends and relatives for input on smartphones, specifically iPhone vs. Blackberry.
Not seeing any need to rush into this, I took my time before committing. I especially felt there was no need to rush into this since when you’ve been away for a ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
In marketing, the goal is to create the perception of need.
In advertising, marketing's shock troops, the goal is to create the propensity to buy.
I just received this advertisement from CompUSA.com via email.
Read that ad copy carefully.
Does that ad create the propensity to buy something--anything--from CompUSA.com?
In marketing, perfection is the baseline. First you deliver perfection, on ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Here’s a quick test for anyone who has sat in their cubicle and dreamed about starting their own business.
Read this short web page about a new technology: http://www.agilenano.com/technology.htm
What would you build with that technology? What are your product ideas?
My friend Scot Mortier, an assistant District Attorney suggested, “Interesting...so, applications from ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
One of the downsides of the insularity of the American culture and the self-enclosed European culture is its bounding effect on opportunity space thinking.
One example that is easy to illustrate is in technology. People in the post-development societies of western Europe and the U.S. live in a bandwidth rich environment. ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Legend has it that when Thomas Edison created his phonograph he conceived of it as a method to record and playback messages between individuals.
Legend also has it that Alexander Graham Bell envisioned the telephone as a device useful for transmitting musical performances from concert halls to people in other locations.
In each ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
One of the traumas of moving to an eReader such as an Amazon Kindle is that you have no more books to display on your bookshelves. Bookshelves can be a trauma in their own right, as my friend Lee Wochner describes here. But the prospect of not having any books ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Check out this home page: http://www.lijit.com/
Tell me if you have a friggin' clue what they do.
So, since it's a huge mystery, you click on "about" http://www.lijit.com/about
I don't know that I've ever read anything that said so much but yielded so little. This is called the "Valley Effect," where people spend ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
"In the next 12 months there will be a zettabyte of information on the Internet." - Dr. James Baty, VP and chief technology officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems.
A zettabyte is the equivalent of 1 billion terabytes. Just a few years ago, it cost my clients millions of dollars to buy and ...
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