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3 Must-Reads for this Weekend #13

September 28, 2012September 26, 2012

Welcome to Fall, 2012! Hope you are getting your pumpkins, and your fall gear out this weekend. There’s a definite crispness in the air here in California. These stories  caught …

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What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Growth

September 23, 2011September 23, 2011

Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product – is hard enough. But there’s one thing that may be even harder. And that’s …

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Trend to Watch: Mobile Payments

January 19, 2011July 15, 2011

Starbucks has become that much more convenient.  Today, the NYT showed us that we can use our phone to buy coffee. No more carrying your wallet, and your phone. At …

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Using Past to Design Future

May 7, 2010July 15, 2011

Nokia keeps doing its analysis and strategic planning and ending up with answers that suggest “stay the course” or “do more of the same”. It reminds me of GM circa …

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Nicholas Carr's Rough Type: BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy Gets SaaS

July 18, 2008

In today’s Rough Type, Nicholas Carr comments about Sarah Lacy’s latest Businessweek article on SaaS. Turns out, as we see from Microsoft’s inability to turn a profit in this area, …

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Nicholas Carr’s Rough Type: BusinessWeek’s Sarah Lacy Gets SaaS

July 18, 2008

In today’s Rough Type, Nicholas Carr comments about Sarah Lacy’s latest Businessweek article on SaaS. Turns out, as we see from Microsoft’s inability to turn a profit in this area, …

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In a bar fight, what are you prepared to do?

August 3, 2007

Competition in the tech industry is a fundamental. Without it, we would never have seen the innovations and incredibly cool stuff that have informed, transformed, and improved our daily lives. …

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Google SMB Push…

August 2, 2007

Having launched what now seems like a bazzillion products, I think I can draw a conclusion about the simplicity of enterprise product adoption. Here goes. There are only 3 things …

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Amazon's Category Creation Going Again

May 30, 2007

Grid Platforms: The big idea? 5 steps to Category Creation: 1. See a critical gap. 2. Figure out how to fill and dominate it. 3. Establish innovation as a Differentiation. …

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