Posts Tagged ‘ busted ’

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 ]

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 ]

I’m done..

I’m done with the digital rental movie market.  My iTouch told me that my movie was no longer valid and I only made it 1/2 through a pretty good movie. (I don’t even want to back in the archives and complain that iTunes let me rent movies to my 5G iPod knowing full well that it [ READ MORE ]

Will it blend – Ipad

Not sure about Mister Zero, but I’m not totally psyched about the Ipad (I would tell you why but who cares). What is totally awesome is the “Will it Blend” video from Blendtec demolishing an Ipad.  This is some of the best viral marketing ever.  They just throw all sorts of stuff into these high-power [ 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 ]

Stuck in 30F

This is the 2nd flight that I’ve been on where GoGoInflight is given me the shaft. 1st time, it wasn’t exactly their fault, but showed how difficult it is to offer a direct to consumer product in a physical ecosystem that you can’t control.  The poor woman was standing in from of a cross continental JFK [ READ MORE ]

Amtrak: Why did you build a plane that can’t fly?

Amtrak – you’ll never be better than the airlines so stop trying to act like one. Here’s why: 1. You make trains not planes 2. The customer experience is worse 3. You’re behind on the technology.  WIFI just coming to Acela in Q1 2010!  Boltbus figured it out over two years ago! No TV’s in the trains and definitely [ READ MORE ]

(Un)Clear Pass

Fresh off vacation and thinking to myself, post checked bag experience, there has to be a better way.  There just absolutely has to. Why did Clear Pass get stuck?  I don’t know and part of my brain is still vacationing, but there has to be a better way and everyone who is standing in line, watching [ READ MORE ]

Blockbusted – Going from #1 to #0 (no offense Mr.Zero)

The illustrious Mr.Zero is on a much needed vacation so I’ll be picking up the slack this week with the usual SOTB rhetoric. I’ve been ranting about falls-from-grace lately and Blockbuster has just about committed suicide.  How do you go from being #1 to #0? Instead of going into the history of Blockbuster let’s just focus on [ READ MORE ]

Everyone has their place

Everyone has their place in the financing ecosystem of start ups. VC models thrive on certain assumptions and everyone contributes different things, each with some additional risks that other players don’t have and upside that others don’t have as well. Angel investors are a unique bunch. Typically, they have some personal money and they want to [ READ MORE ]