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Sigh. Once again people I thought knew me say, “I thought you were an iPhone guy”. No, I’m not an iPhone guy, and i have many legitimate reasons for not being an iPhone guy. Here are some of those reasons
1. I don’t like having to pay for a phone.
Lets get real people. Everyone [...]
Recently, I got to thinking that there are really are two kinds of innovation, and these two types of innovation were very apparent in the kind of programs I would run for companies. Borrowing a term from physics, I like to call these two types of innovation “theoretical” and “applied” just like theoretical and applied physics.
Theoretical [...]
Social Avatar Beats Death
Avatars are commonly known as virtual characters in the digital realm representing a user. But what if avatars could house personal history, profile and ideas? Could that enable us to make decisions after we have died?
LifeNaut, has a free service called “Mind File” that lets you digitally backup the organic [...]
This is only too sad and true. These are just devices people. They are not “magical”, they are simply electronic tools to aid us. They are like prosthetics, true, but ones we could do without. If you ask me, its this single minded, put your reason on a shelf attitude which is killing us, in [...]
Must be some kind of new gold rush. No one evens knows if foursquare will ever be really useful and profitable and there are already a ton of competitors. Why?
A serious, intelligent film that stands up for science and freedom of thought and against the forces of mysticism and ignorance? And it's now in theaters? Believe it!
via Agora: A New Film in Defense of Reason – Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere.
My kind of idea of a startup – not always about the exit…
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“What if the idea of exit was removed from the equation… what if the investor and entrepreneur agreed to a different model—the model of sharing dividends”? She says the mathematics is simple: if a $500,000 investment helped in building a $10 [...]
I don’t know theres is something in this track that speaks to me….
Balkantronika – Sonora Milagrosa – Rekata (Balkantronika Remix) – SoundCloud.
We needed to return an electronic thermometer to Williams-Sonoma because it had stopped working about a year after we got it. Actually, it more kind of went crazy, switching between two temperatures and being completely inaccurate. The salesperson said that normally they only give out 90 day warranties for electronics, but I wondered why? I [...]
Innovators should also be able to quickly recite the 4 Ps that capture their idea's potential: population, penetration, price, and purchase frequency.
via The 4 Ps of Innovation – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review.
