March 2011
35 posts
“Focus on where you are going rather than on what you hope to avoid.
Ideally,...”
– Two great quotes from Ben Horowitz in a terrific post “What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology” in TechCrunch today.
I love the first quote and believe in it as a guide.
I’m inspired by the second one although believe what he is suggesting is impossible...
“The old order attempted to mold customer behavior, whereas the new one aims to...”
– From @hymanroth in a comment to my post “The best marketing strategy is dynamic execution” .
He said it better than I could. Thanks David.
New blog post on the interplay between strategy...
And how this all plays into marketing in a socially-driven and dynamic global marketplace.
New blog post “The best marketing strategy is dynamic execution”.
“Art stored randomly in a room is a warehouse. That same art curated and...”
– From Kirklove on avc.com today, discusssing “Curation”.
The Tasting Kitchen on Abbot Kinney--LA's best...
Wow…who would have thought in California wine-centric LA.
To find these two on the list blew me away:
-Salvo Foti ‘06 Etna Rosso I Vigneri
-Philippe Bornard ‘07 Arbois Pupillin Le Ginglet
“Many entrepreneurs and their backers don’t quite give the proper weight to...”
– Quote is from Om Malik’s post “Love: Why Some Apps Work and Some Don’t” .
Marketing in a customer-centric and very noisy world is popping up, as it should, as an essential, misunderstood element in startup success. My last two blog posts focused on this:
Marketing…this is a...
New blog post weighing in on the ongoing marketing... →
“The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people...”
– From Seth Godin, in Mashable piece, “Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation”.
Once you move the customer into the center of the...
New blog post on the seismic shift that a customer-centric reality brings to commerce and building our businesses.
Check it out—“Customers rule” @ http://bt.io/Go7I
“Tame your street!”
– I’m coining this term as the new form of ‘chill’.
Funny…it derived from a text exchange with the owner of the house I’m renting in Sayulita in reference to my need to be calm over the lack of reliable connectivity in Mexico ;)
Great phrase…a T-shirt is...
Real D named one of the top ten most innovative...
Real D is #3 on the list:
For taking 3-D mainstream and working with Sony, JCV, Samsung, Toshiba, Panasonic, and DirecTV to bring 3-D capabilities to the home after tripling the number of 3-D-capable cinema screens installed worldwide to 9,500.
From Fast Company, The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Film.
Congrats to the team. A huge achievement and as a friend of the company, an equity...
“From what I’ve seen so far, Facebook is sucking the life out of the site, whose...”
– exactly
peHUB » Disqus to Facebook: “We Aren’t Shaking In Our Boots”
(via fred-wilson)
“Geo-location is about experiences—not places.”
– From Om Malik post “What the New Foursquare Foretells About the Future of Geo-Local”.
I’ve been a FourSquare user from the beginning and really don’t know clearly know why I do it…I just do. Om’s post puts some context in my thinking about why I just can’t...
We started foursquare with the idea of “making... →
Good post on the FourSquare blog…”It all started with a check-in: the vision for #4sq3 and beyond”.
Interesting glimpse at version 3.0 with discovery and a recommendation engine rolled in. Logical direction to add intelligence as the database gets smarter. Will it work…I’ll give it a try.
Making city life easier and better and more fun is a goal that resonates for...
“Denial is the unconscious calculus that if an unpleasant reality were true, it...”
– Quote from Richard Tedlow in Om Says newsletter article, “What ngmoco, Intel and a Donkey Have In Common”. Available tomorrow @ GigaOm or subscribe to his newsletter. It’s free and a good daily read.
“Video calls accounted for more than 41 percent of all Web calling between Skype...”
– From a Bloomberg article, Facebook Is Said to Resume Talks With Skype on Video Calling.
I posted on the intial announcement last October @ Facebook and Skype…bringing community and communications together. It made sense then, it still does. It fits neatly into both Facebook’s need to have...
New blog post on "QR codes bridging the public... →
Great place to share QR code apps or projects that you have seen that work…or don’t.
"Social filters turning the ordinary into the... →
New blog post on social filters and the launch of SocialEyes.
