December 2011
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A Kozmo.com that works? →
It’s fascinating - and instructive - how business models that flamed out at one point (such as Kozmo.com) can, in a different era - with better tools and more rational expansion plans - actually work quite well. For now, Postmates is focused just on the San Francisco area and is working with 10 merchants in the city—including bakeries and tailors—that don’t make their inventory...
Dec 31st
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“We have launched an investigation. The handset will be going back to Apple for...”
– iPhone Siri software tells boy, 12, to ‘shut up’ in Tesco - Telegraph
Dec 30th
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An Expanding & Transparent Focus →
I’ve had a great relationship with the team at Focus.com these past few years, and have thoroughly enjoyed working with the company and their active, growing community of practitioners & experts as both the community and the business expands. So I was delighted to see the latest set of updates rolled out yesterday, in particular the way the site has become more transparent about data...
Dec 29th
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“What Steve Jobs understood was that he was more like Calvin Klein than he was...”
– Scott McNealy via 12 tech leaders resolutions for 2012 (GigaOm) HT @reformedbroker
Dec 28th
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Resolved to Start Practicing
If you’re reading this you probably already know that I’m a James Altucher fan. I regularly read - and often share - his StockTwits and TechCrunch posts, so when I read Brad Feld’s review of his latest book I Was Blind But Now I See I determined that I’d also dig it out of my Defrag swag bag and finally read it while on vacation this week. James Altucher is brilliant....
Dec 28th
Dec 27th
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“You’ve been selling software for thirty years, and you’re having to...”
– Sizing Up Oracle’s Big Miss
Dec 27th
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“If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best.”
– Steve Jobs, 1998
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Your Gift to Me
I was reading Daniel Henninger’s complaint in yesterday’s WSJ last night and kept thinking, while he’s entitled to his complaints, they certainly don’t apply to me. So it was very gratifying to sign on this morning and find the social conversation in full swing. 2011 has been far from easy - yet despite it all, it’s also been tremendously rewarding. I can say...
Dec 23rd
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Ann Winblad making total sense on CNBC (via Venture Capitalists)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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My 2 cents on Oracle, Salesforce and the Cloud
Have been following the chatter closely on StockTwits, among the Enterprise Irregulars, and elsewhere after Oracle’s big miss. Here’s my 2 cents… Cloud/SaaS/OnDemand software (choose your buzzword) is a powerful long-term trend - buyers are shifting strongly in this direction and it represents a tremendous market and investment opportunity. This is long-term bullish for flagship...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“It doesn’t matter if you’re “human” as a company. It doesn’t matter if you “join...”
– absolutely agree with @jasonfalls - as I’ve been arguing elsewhere marketers tend to overemphasize content quantity and not place enough focus on quality - that needs to flip… Why Businesses Struggle With Social Media … And What To Do About It | Social Media Explorer
Dec 21st
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“The underlying “big is bad” arguments with respect to Google are invalid as...”
– Senators Push for Antitrust Investigation Into Google | Competitive Enterprise Institute
Dec 21st
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Why you shouldn’t launch your startup in the press →
Extremely important distinction in this piece from GigaOm - there are two types of ‘launch’ which commonly get confused (in established companies as well as startups) and it’s critical to understand the difference. Product ‘launch’ - get your offering in the hands of potential customers as soon as you can Marketing ‘launch’ - hold your fire until...
Dec 20th
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Circles Volume Slider Differentiates Google+ →
I love the idea of ‘sliders’ - really wish I could do something like this with LinkedIn parislemon: Interesting thought by Josh Constine. Perhaps the way for Google+ to find its audience is not by focusing on some small thing that Facebook or Twitter does and doing it better, but by going above them and focusing more broadly on making you connect socially with everyone. The...
Dec 20th
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The Innovator's Dilemma Meets (and Eats) the Cash... →
Microsoft is frequently cited as an undervalued stock and a profit machine. But the Innovator’s Dilemma is meeting the BCG Matrix at Microsoft - right now - as the advent of cloud computing destroys the value - and profitability - of their primary Windows and Offices franchises. To the company’s credit, they have recognized the challenge and aggressively attempted to respond, but the...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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The Wayne Gretzky of Enterprise Software →
Marc @Benioff continues to skate where the puck is going, not where it is… Last week Salesforce.com, a leader in cloud-based corporate software,bought Rypple, a little-known outfit that specializes in creating and observing what is called “the social enterprise” — which uses things like Twitter posts, status badges and Facebook-esque likes to set goals, manage teams and recognize...
Dec 19th
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Social Media Marketing Magazine: Exclusives: Top... →
very honored to be included on this list… These are the top 100 Chief Marketing Officers around the world who 1) provide useful content, 2) consistently engage with their followers, 3) truly “get it” when it comes to the best ways to use Twitter and other forms of social media, and 4) were active on Twitter as of December 19, 2011.
Dec 19th
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brycedotvc: Plain talk from @bradusv on the perils of and problems with #sopa is required weekend viewing on BRYCE DOT VC.
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
“My husband came home one day and said, ‘I bought a mountain’”
– New Jersey Herald - Book brings Vernon ski history to life Great Gorge was a big part of my youth - congratulations to Peggy Kurlander on the publication of this book, and I love that she’s using Social Media to promote it.
Dec 18th
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“Should the Broncos win outright this afternoon, the Tebow frenzy will not only...”
– Pro football’s newest saint
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“In 1999-2000, the public was given the chance to have a venture capitalist-style...”
– Facebook Shareholders Suck…(Or, Why This Is Not Bubble 2.0) | TechCrunch
Dec 17th
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Crappy Content is a Crappy Business
Came across this Tweet a few moments ago from my friend Leigh. content is a crappy business $AOL “@hblodget: There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong With AOL’s Media Business read.bi/vPzhT4” — Leigh Drogen (@LDrogen) December 17, 2011 I was about to RT or write a snarky reply, but then I got thinking about Christopher Hitchens, especially after reading Christopher Buckley’s...
Dec 17th
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Rob Delaney: TITLES CONSIDERED for MISSION... →
robdelaney: I’ll probably get in trouble for posting this, but I found a document at Paramount Pictures that lists the titles they considered for the new Mission Impossible film before settling on the excellent “Ghost Protocol.” Please repost in case they take it down from my site. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: LOAF…
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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“It gets under my skin because it is a pompous, privileged, insulting, and myopic...”
– Horseshit | The Verge Forums
Dec 15th
On the Sidelines
Someone asked me the other day why I don’t tweet as much about trading anymore. The reason is simple - I haven’t been trading. I’ve essentially been out of the market since April. I’ve stuck my toe in the water a few times this year, each time with tight stops, and each time was right back on the sidelines within a few weeks if not days. I still follow along with and...
Dec 15th
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“Around Boston we know that Tim Berners-Lee created the web, but Larry Weber is...”
– Discuss… Larry’s Digital Hub: Exploring the Digital Innovation Landscape in Boston | BostInno
Dec 14th
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“This summer, he ended up hooking up with a girl who he had hooked up with once...”
– Derek Jeter sends off his one night stands with a signed memorabilia - NYPOST.com what a guy…
Dec 13th
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“It basically says that a startup team needs to be capable of making sudden and...”
– The Startup Team « Steve Blank
Dec 13th
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IBM’s Social Business Predictions for 2012 →
Social Analytics at the top of the list… ibmsocialbiz: For Social Business, 2011 was a year of exploration, experimentation and in some cases innovation.  Both small and large organizations in a variety of verticals globally began to realize the power of bringing social behaviors, processes and platforms behind the firewall. According to a 2011 AIIM survey, over 50% of organizations now...
Dec 12th
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“Of the 100 or so people, roughly a dozen raised their hands. So that’s...”
– Overheard - WSJ.com
Dec 12th
Dec 12th
“Broke nations are being bailed out by a broke transnational organization...”
– Mark Steyn: A future looted to bribe the present - The Orange County Register
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Twitter vs. Facebook - Simplicity vs. Complexity
I love the direction that Twitter is going in, which is diametrically-opposed to what Facebook is doing. I expressed my thoughts on the latter on Focus.com yesterday. Obviously, what network we use for what communication depends on a number of factors, but Twitter’s simplicity, while sometimes limiting, still seems to draw me there much more frequently these days. ‘Timeline’...
Dec 9th
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Enterprise May Not Be 'Boring' But It's Not...
In a market where LivingSocial is valued at $6 billion, Groupon at $13.6 billion and Zynga at $10 billion, I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry at the fact that some are describing Jive’s $500-800M valuation as an indicator of a ‘bubble’. It’s certainly commentary on the relative investor appeal of the consumer and enterprise Social space(s). Selling to big companies...
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“Sell, now, please.”
– A Devil of a Time to Root for the Mets - NYTimes.com
Dec 7th
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“An administration official conceded the White House had no actual data to back...”
– Obama Declares That 1 Percent Tax Rates on Billionaires are the Height of Unfairness, Not That He Has Any Evidence That Such Rates Exist
Dec 7th