Archive for the ‘ Not Start-Up ’ Category

Green eggs and spam

Is email marketing SOTB?  It must be given that my inbox is completely flooded with email not only from amazon.com but from a prince from Africa who wants my bank account information to deposit a zillion dollars.  There’s a difference between email marketing that you want and email marketing that just gets sent.  DailyCandy and [ READ MORE ]

iphone 4

Now that it’s the summer it seems that your friends at SOTB have had a lackadaisical approach lately with keeping up with posts. Sorry about that. So the iphone 4? Yes that’s a question because as an iphone 3GS owner I just don’t care.  What I mean is, the iphone 4 doesn’t move the needle in [ READ MORE ]

Death by PPT

I’ve reviewed two PowerPoint(PPT) presentations in the last few days from colleagues that are starting their own companies and really have great ideas.  They are pitching investors or potential clients to help grow their business.  These are guys that are smart and that I respect but they can’t do PowerPoint.  It’s not that they can’t [ READ MORE ]

Century +1

For the 101 post on SOTB I have to get on the BP band-wagon that Mister Zero started.  While everyone knows this oil spill totally sucks here’s a couple facts that you may not know: 1) The oil-well if left unchecked would stop flowing in 7 years 2) There are over 3,500 oil & gas wells in [ READ MORE ]

Can’t listen to the news without getting pissed off.

I have been taking it from all sides, knee and elbow pad style of late (hence the lack of posts), but I do manage to catch snippets of NPR each morning and all I can say is that I can’t stand it. I can’t believe what an incredible $hit $h*w British Petroleum is putting on [ READ MORE ]

Cellphones and toilets

Mr.Pink just brought to my attention an article in the NYT about Cellphones and toilets in India. It turns out there are more cellphones than toilets.  If you’ve even been to India (I’ve had to launch a product in India and was there for a couple of months) you wouldn’t be surprised at this article [ READ MORE ]

Voice and Coca-Cola

Another milestone quietly passed us by last week to quiet fanfare.  Not surprisingly, data is now used more on mobile phones than voice. Now that we’ve finally crossed this inevitable chasm, the question is: “What has voice become?” I can only come up with one sound conclusion. Voice is now a feature like SMS (but [ READ MORE ]

Love when a big name follows up

Back in February, Mr. Hero had a very good post about Google being a one trick pony and how that just didn’t make good business sense.  Well, lookie here — who else jumped on that bandwagon of rock solid logic? None other than Yahoo’s Chief Carol Bartz, citing that “Google is going to have a problem [ READ MORE ]

3D – I’ll bring over my glasses

3D continues to be a hot topic on SOTB.  Why? Because it has all the right ingredients to be totally stuck. Until 3DTV’s don’t need glasses it’s just too much of a hassle to have your friends and family over. Here’s a great quote from the NY Times The glasses go for a premium — around $150 [ READ MORE ]

Taking your medicine….frogs style – Fast Company interpretation

One of our favorite zines Fast Company posted a nice little article on taking your medicine first everyday. While it’s a different interpretation using a frog analogy the core theme is the same. Do what’s most annoying or difficult first in the day and then rest of your day can only get better. Try it. [ READ MORE ]