Steve Larsen is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. By his own admission, he’s not the “world’s greatest CEO” or even the “idea guy” of young businesses. But by my observation, he is among the most willing among experienced executives and entrepreneurs to share his experience with those who have yet to cut their startup [...]
Continue Reading →Several days later and I’m still reacting to the amazing day that was TEDxAustin. In a day jammed with wonderful ideas, insightful speakers, engaged audience, and some stunning performances, I had the privilege of sharing one of my ideas within the event’s banner “Play Big.”
Being the contrarian I am, of [...]
Continue Reading →In a post written a couple days ago, I took a poke at “free” business models and cited the success of WatchDox launching its secure file-sharing service with a premium price tag.
In that post, I wrote:
At best, free is a marketing strategy, although typically not a well understood one.
Having said [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve pitched to me over the last 6 months or so and talked about a free business model, you’ve no doubt heard my rant that “free isn’t a business model.” Most proponents of “free” plan to make their money in advertising, even while failing to understand much at all about the dynamics or economics [...]
Continue Reading →WE INTERRUPT OUR NORMALLY MEASURED INDUSTRY ANALYSIS . . .
Good morning, all. How’s everyone out there in peaceful-happy-go-lucky-tech-land? Everyone good? Anyone received a death threat recently? Oh that’s right. We have! Well, I supposed it’s good to be noticed. What is that old saying? If you’re not pissing people off, you’re [...]
Continue Reading →In a post yesterday, Graeme Thickens reminds the blogeratti that they (I’m not yet sure I should include myself in that category, but I’m certainly guilty, too) “missed the point” in the debate about Alltop, Guy Kawasaki’s new blog aggregation site. While journalists, analysts, and bloggers argued about the [...]
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