Posts Tagged ‘ strategy ’

Turns out 3D isn’t good for you

Whoa boy — the problems with 3D just continue to mount. Forget the fact that you shell out $4K for a TV and only can have one person watch it without shelling out another $150 for another pair of glasses. Forget the fact that even if you find another friend who got suckered decided to hop on [ 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 ]

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 ]

Friendly fire

I’ve been thinking about Palm being sold to HP and inevitably I started thinking about Google.  Not because of my usual thoughts that Google is a sitting duck business (Have you seen the new facebook “like” feature -ruhroh!) but that Google while posturing to topple Mircosoft, and Apple has left some carnage in its wake.  [ 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 ]

Friday Question :: Who ‘gets’ it?

Mentioned it before, but I think everyone can agree to the point that Malcolm Gladwell’s comments about in Outliers, that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in something.  Raw skill and talent is just the basic building block and a given.  Everyone who has the potential to be very successful has raw skill [ READ MORE ]

Taking your medicine

Earlier this week I met with a great group of individuals about this new crazy thing they are doing.  They just wanted guidance on their strategy and I was lucky enough to be asked to help them.  As we chatted more and more we kept gravitating to the same topics and ignoring this other [ READ MORE ]

Check it out — This is actually working despite the upsell

Lookie, lookie, lookie. The GQ App, which we were talking about back in December, is doing pretty well. It sold 12,000 units for the January issue.  That’s up 2x from the month prior. Not huge numbers but promising. When do you think they will wake up and say, iPhone isn’t an upsell, but really the venue [ READ MORE ]

‘Power of Print’ :: Stuck for not the obvious reasons

OH man, This is a real bummer. Last week, the Magazine industry launched a $90M (That’s right, NINETY MIL) ad campaign called the ‘Power of Print’ and unfortunately, it seems like they are setting themselves up to get stuck.  Most readers on the web say that magazines are dying, it’s over , etc. and you [ READ MORE ]