Thursday, December 15. 2011

On platforms and kids

Want a great story about some real life experience on why Android is loosing big time as a business platform compared to iOS and (!) Windows Phone 7? Then you may want to listen to George Karavias and Dimitris Gkanatsios from Anlock over at the most recent Startup Success Podcast.

As a bonus, the show also comes with some insights on the challenges of marketing educational apps for kids. Who don't buy the stuff themselves.

Big trouble. Great food for the ears.
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Wednesday, December 14. 2011

Don't Be A Free User

From the Pinboard blog:
Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won't do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you'll be the only game in town!


Sounds easy? It isn't. But it's still the only natural choice. For all who care, that is.
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Sunday, October 16. 2011

Worn-out but still fresh

At least the first part of this is not a new phrase:
… where they work long hard hours, at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like.

It's my contention that going to work on a Friday in Jeans and T-Shirt isn't really getting to the nub of the issue.


But it's brought up again by Nigel Marsh at TEDxSydney in a speech about work life balance. A worn-out topic, at best. A well done speech anyway. Especially as the above quote only resembles one of his observations. Of which he has four. And I will not point them all out here.

So, why not go and watch yourself:

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Sunday, October 9. 2011

Don't preserve ideas, have new ones!

Ideas are nothing. We already know that. They are the easy part. They are a dime a dozen.

In case you are one of those who happen to disagree, one of those who think that ideas are actually limited and come with some intrinsic value, one who somehow thinks that good ones will never come back but will instead vanish into oblivion — this may be for you:

ideas preserver

But you would still be wrong. Don't preserve ideas. Have new ones. And start following through with them. At least eventually.
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Thursday, October 6. 2011

Planned obsolescence. Or: on achieving goals

Who knows about the Phoebus cartel?

It used to be a gang of seven lightbulp companys who came together for some brainstorming. With the result of a creative idea of some built-in obsolescence. For lightbulps. Described like this:

Obviously, a lightbulb that never burns out is not good for business, and so at this fateful meeting, the notion of built-in obsolescence was born.


This was, of course, a drama — and still is. This was market manipulation — and still is. This was taking the public for idiots — and still is.

But this also was a great example of setting clear goals and defining ways of achieving just those. And it still is.
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