Entrepreneurs are not usually motivated by (just) money. Trust me, there are far easier and more stable ways of making a living. They get their drive from solving painful problems. This unique value system sometimes makes it hard for us to understand why someone would go slave for a paycheck at a job they hate. [...]
For years Flash has enjoyed a monopoly on online interaction despite the technology’s relative complacency. Adobe inherited Flash by buying Macromedia. Apple has asked Adobe to improve Flash performance on Macs for years with little success. So Apple decided to not support Flash on iPhones and iPads in lieu of open standard technology that does [...]
Full video of my talk on lessons learned starting a startup. Presented at Silicon Valley Innovation Institute – May 5th, 2010 (Palo Alto) Boring slides:
It was not that long ago when a company founder being put in charge of partnerships was seen as a snub. A largely undefined and unmeasurable role which signaled that the person was being put out to pasture and retained only a maskot importance to the organization. Today this is one of the most important [...]
For the last decade I’ve been a project and product mercenary. I’ve ran an agency, where our job was to cut through the noise, identify the customers’ marketing and/or technology goals and plot courses for solutions. I’ve also been involved with a number of start-ups looking for answers on macro and micro levels. On the [...]
I was originally intending to post this at the beginning of the year but I’m glad I waited, or rather procrastinated – there have been some noteworthy developments on the topic. I purposefully left out the multitude of outside references in this article – as it would stretch this lengthy post into a book. If [...]
A lot of business “thought leaders” and a lot of well respected business schools teach entrepreneurs to not be afraid of failure. They say: “fail early, fail often”. The premise makes a lot of sense – if you are terrified of failure you won’t take the needed risks to succeed. After all if you don’t [...]
Microsoft has been in battle for second in the digital media player (DMP) market for 3 years now with Apple having lapped the competition more than once. But is the race and the season drawing to a close on this one? (pardon the moto euphemism, after all we are in the middle of the F1 [...]
