Posts Tagged ‘ business2.0 ’

I understand the fury at Adobe over Apple’s moves against Flash development on the iPhone. (And I’m sad that this particularly targeted spat may have incalculable fall-out on the rest of the Adobe-Apple relationship, which will potentially impact both companies’ customers down the road.) It’s got a bit of the feeling of Lucy pulling...
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News flash: “If we cannot become profitable, our financial condition will deteriorate, and we may be unable to achieve our business objectives,” the company wrote in its filing. via Motricity files for $250 million IPO.
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These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn,...
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…. you’re supporting your competitor: I wonder how much money Ask is spending at Google in order to boost their own business. As a business that uses Google AdWords, you could hardly ask for a better endorsement of Google’s services and ads than a direct competitor also using their services.
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There were just so many choices for this column. Eventually I went for the one you see above, semi-reminiscent of Neal Postman’s famous anti-TV Amusing Ourselves to Death. But “John Dvorak Writes Good Column; World’s Jaw Drops” was a real possibility. Dvorak, of course, has been tilting at Macs for some time. Now, apparently,...
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I already re-tweeted … but I have to post this. In a great Open Forum post on How to Escape Mundanity (which is actually about how to start your own business), there’s this great quote from Pamela Slim: If you are in the very early stages of thinking about a business, spend your time...
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Perhaps you were not aware – innovation is easy. Or at least, so Tom Peters says: You know, he might actually be right. I love the part about “saviors-in-waiting:” Disgruntled customers Off-the-scope competitors Rogue employees Fringe suppliers Those are not the usual suspects when a company starts wondering who will lead them into the...
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It’s a truism in Western culture that if you set your goals high, even if you don’t reach them you’ve gotten far. That’s not necessarily true in business or project management. “Boiling the ocean” is a word-picture for trying too hard, attempting too much: When a company boasts that it is going to sell...
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Measuring the results of social media marketing efforts has been challenging to say the least. Five or six years ago, when I was helping start-ups put blogging campaigns together to kindle the development of user communities, I didn’t really have a clear idea how to measure ROI. About the only things we measured were...
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If you’re in business, you’ve got competing priorities. I recently was facing a complex fork in the road, and rather than just picking it up … I need to understand the consequences of each direction. What I needed was a filter to help me compare and contrast multiple competing business investment opportunities. I couldn’t...
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I absolutely love the way Zappo’s reminds their employees about corporate guidelines. Sensible rule First of all, they have a sensible rule: don’t reply to all! This is one of those Obviously Good Ideas™ that few follow … mostly for the purposes of CingYA in case of disaster, and appearing to look busy to...
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There are good reasons for some start-ups to run in stealth mode for months or years of their early existence. I was reminded of a few as I was reading Chris Maxcer’s review of Joost for the iPhone. Check out this gem, about the desktop version: I had briefly used Joost’s client-side Mac video...
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It’s been a little more than 2 months in the new job, so it’s about time that I’ve got the new business cards. Here’s a sample … with a holiday twist.
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Do you remember vStores? Perhaps 7 years ago that was something I tried out: hosted and completely outsourced eCommerce. I made a couple hundred dollars, and then the vStores thing went down the tubes. Last time I checked, they were still not able to get their act straight. So it was more than a...
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Matt Rissel interviewed 100 highly successful people, trying to find the tools they used to make themselves successful. Only problem? There wasn’t any tool commonality. However, there was a principle commonality. Here are the top 10 common principles that highly successful people share. They tend to … Have passion for what they do Surround...
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