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The first time I heard the Grateful Dead was in the smoking area of my high school. (Yes, high schools had smoking areas in the 1970s.) Someone had brought in a boom box and was playing Wharf Rat, the chorus emerging like an uplifting prayer: "I'll get
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While I'd been using the Internet since the early 1980s in my student job at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, the first time I remember using the worldwide web was in the mid 1990s. Well, August 9th, 1995, to be more specific. I'd recently moved to Paris and
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Since It Costs A Lot to Win, and Even More to Lose [1] It's hard for a DNA-level marketer and inveterate deadhead [2] to review a book that fuses both. While I first read Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead not long after its publication in 2010, I&
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The concept of minimum viable product (MVP) has been popularized in the past decade thanks to the success of the wonderful book, The Lean Startup. It's thrown around so casually, and you hear it so often, that sometimes you wonder how -- or even if -- people define
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As a long-time Grateful Dead fan, I have to say that I was advantaged in understanding how the Blown to Bits problem would affect digital media businesses. You see, for years, the Dead had changed the business model of the music industry, choosing to use albums as a loss leader
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For a change of pace, I thought I'd do a quick post with some of my favorite quotes. * "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable." -- Dwight Eisenhower * "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing
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The other day I found this New York Times story, Bring Out Your Dead, about The Dead's "resurrection" tour this Spring, and it both cracked me up and got me thinking. Excerpt: “Well, I agree with the people who say it was May 8, 1977,” he
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First Monday, a peer-reviewed Internet journal run by the University of Illinois at Chicago recently published an article entitled A Grateful Dead Analysis: The Relationship Between Concert and Listening Behavior which I found interesting. Frequent readers will know that I've always believed the Grateful Dead provided a roadmap