One from the Archives (Circa 2000) I think everyone at sometime has probably dreamed about running their own business. The freedom to do it better by doing it your way. But beware your dream doesn’t become a nightmare. The price of freedom is high. 99% of all start-ups fail within 10 years. So ask yourself… [Read more…]
November 28, 2009
Ten years ago the management mantra of the day was all about Doing More With Less. In response talented young bankers were busy building successful careers surfing the concurrent waves of eBusiness and online banking. At the same time the industry’s leaders were openly posing the Million Dollar question: Who would we rather have as a customer? The Millionaire driving… [Read more…]
November 28, 2009
One from the Archives (Circa 1990) This piece was originally entitled the Yin Yang of Design and it was distributed as lecture notes to a Design class. It deals with the urban myth of Western Innovation vs Eastern Imitation and how the two very different approaches to innovation do in fact compliment each other. So much… [Read more…]
November 26, 2009
In Point, click and discover the future of advertising? I documented how advertisers and marketers were getting hyped up about the ultimate advertising and promotions platform. In A Telco you can Bank on? and MasterCard shows its hand in the high stakes game of Mobile Payments we had a look at the new mobile banking and payments platform. Now let’s take… [Read more…]
November 26, 2009
If you run a business or a marketing and promotions program based on a loyalty card, rewards card, points card, advantage card, club card, credit card or debit card then very soon (if haven’t already) you’ll be thinking about the benefits of migrating your customers to New Plastic. New Plastic? You guessed it, the Mobile… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
Earlier this year I wondered if online games developers suffered from the same 10:10 rule that plagued the online newspapers. (i.e. 10 times the traffic for 1/10 the revenues). Or was it only the online print publishers that suffer from the Analog Dollars = Digital Pennies problem? To break even on the web you need to generate 100… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
Continuing on with the theme of News junkie or the future of journalism? I now want to take a look at the Business of Blogging. 24/7 Wall St has recently published a list of The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs In America. 7 of the Top 25 most valuable blogs are tech blogs. TechBlogs, as we all… [Read more…]
November 22, 2009
In his guest TechCrunch post today, Screening The News, Mrinal Desai, the co-founder of CrossLoop (a do-it-yourself tech support app that lets you take over someone else’s computer remotely to fix it or walk them through technical issues), describes how he pulls together the media resources that fuel his insatiable appetite for news and information. He describes his consumption of the 5 screens:… [Read more…]
November 22, 2009
I was working on a piece on innovation that I was going to entitle “The Day America Ran out of Big Ideas” but I saw this piece from TechCrunch European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it and I think it acts as an excellent counter point to the position I was… [Read more…]
November 21, 2009
This is the fifth in a series of postings on the emerging business models of the Mobile Web. Imagine a place where you can pay for taxis, train fares, concert tickets, parking meters, food, drink and clothing simply by holding out your mobile phone. Now, Imagine a place where you can also check in at airports, hotels and hire… [Read more…]
November 28, 2009
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