Marketing
Thanks to a post by Darren Cunningham on LucidEra's blog I found this wonderful Dilbert cartoon which concludes that EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM. I was happy to find this because tech marketers have so thoroughly over-used the word "platform" that I now rarely use it
Marketing
Continuing my recent rants about newspapers, please see this interesting story in the New Yorker by James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, entitled News You Can Lose. On the source of the problems: There’s no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has
Marketing
Here's a fun software industry rendition of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Peter Cohan of marketing / demo consultancy The Second Derivative, entitled 'Twas the Night Before the Big Demo. Here's my favorite excerpt, from the middle of the poem: Enjoy.
IPO
See this article on Bloomberg, entitled Fewest US IPOs Since 1979 Mean Pent-Up Demand. Excerpt: More than 200 U.S. companies are planning to go public, according to the firm. Only two, Home Bancorp Inc. and Grand Canyon Education Inc., have done so this quarter. While I hate to
VC
I was reading Worth Magazine the other day and stumbled into a one-page interview with Gordon Getty, son of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty. Perhaps I'm the last guy on the planet to hear this quote, but I thought it was too good not to share. Increasingly,
I'm in the UK this week, ostensibly for London Online, but have been so busy that I've yet to make it to the show. Digging through email this morning, I took a brief break, headed over to Facebook to check for personal messages, and was greeted
Check out Google Flu Trends, a site at Google.org, which uses Google flu-related searches as a predictor of flu activity, giving them what they estimate as a two-week advantage over the CDC's US Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network. The basic explanation of how it works
Every once in a while I sneak the odd book review into my blog, and this time the selection is Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Duber. This is not exactly a timely review; the book was published in
This quip popped into my mind the other day and, hoping to coin a phrase, I decided to blog on it. Sadly however, a few others seem to have beaten me to the punch. (Nothing like a bit of gallows humor to cheers us up.) * If 401Ks are Now 201Ks,
I was over on corporate blogging expert Debbie Weil's blog today where she had a light-hearted post on ElfYourself, a site which serves but one simple purpose: upload a photo and turn yourself into an Elf. With budding holiday spirit, I was about to give it a
Private Equity
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Check out this post by Gawker Media's Nick Denton entitled A 2009 Internet Media Plan. It's a publisher's wake-up call and the Sequoia RIP Good Times presentation rolled together, all in one. Valleywag, itself a Gawker property, entitled its story about the post
