A Look Back at the Week of 012410

No wonder venture capitalists are so hard to get a hold of Among the tsunami of conjecture and stupidity following the announcement of the iPad was this nugget from ReadWriteWeb: Imagine never having to give a bland elevator pitch ever again. If an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist find themselves in the proverbial elevator ride, [...]

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A Look Back at the Week of 011710

Here are a few items that caught my attention during the past week: Royal Caribbean is stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, they are donating money and resources (including delivering mass quantities of relief supplies) to the cause of the victims. On the other hand, their ships dock as [...]

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Whose Perspective Really Matters?

“We need to drive people to our website.” Truth is, you really can’t drive people to do anything short of using coercion, as shitty a long-term business model as you can imagine. All successful businesses are founded on the principal of solving a problem. They fulfill a demand. People with needs don’t need to be [...]

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I’ll Have Some Strategy With That Social Media, Please.

The hype around social media is really deafening out there, isn’t it? Print and television media seem to have an affinity for spinning the social story, meaning that for those who learn about the online world from traditional media, the Web has largely been reduced to Twitter and Facebook. Unfortunately, that group includes a lot [...]

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Here’s a Sure-Fire Way to Exercise Some Thought Leadership

Remember your rebellious years: don’t trust authority! Don’t be duped. Even some very bright people are going about parroting the phrase “thought leadership.” No one knows what the hell it means. It’s a vacuous construct and it’s intellectually lazy. Ain’t nobody got nothin’ figured out baby – none of our modern gurus: surely not Seth, [...]

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