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Time Warner Cable versus CBS - Who Wins? And Have You Even Noticed? 8 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
I'm old enough to be of the generation that watches TV. I know plenty of my peers in the same geriatric age bracket that do not. But, their lack of TV viewing is not cultural the way it is for net nat...
Treat Versus Chore - Using behavioral economics to explain my iPhone frustration and what it means for Apple and others 2 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
I've had this post in my drafts for six months if not longer, and as a topic that I've wanted to discuss, the actual time is much, much, longer It wasn't until I read HBS Professor and Behavioral Eco...
The Hidden Costs of Joining the Billion Dollar Valuation Club 22 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
It's hard for me to remember a time quite like the one we are witnessing in the consumer technology space. This month alone we have had two billion dollar exits - Tumblr and Waze - and we have had two...
The Hidden Costs of Joining the Billion Dollar Valuation Club 22 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
It's hard for me to remember a time quite like the one we are witnessing in the consumer technology space. This month alone we have had two billion dollar exits - Tumblr and Waze - and we have had two...
The Best Thing for Google Glass Are All the People Telling Me Why I Would Never Want It. 28 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
For reasons known only to Google, @businessinsider makes my inbox, and with their CTR optimized titles, I make @sailthru look good. Between the two of them of though, I'm finding myself well exceeding...
You Down with OMG? Yeah, You Know Me. Tumblr And A Whole Bunch of Cray-Cray. 25 May 2013 | 01:31 am
Quite a bit has been said about Yahoo buying Tumblr. $1.1bn is a staggering amount for a company that earned $13mm last year and has declining growth in its users and pageviews. It's been said that th...
Lessons from the NICU - The Trouble with Not Being Able to Measure 12 May 2013 | 05:03 am
My wife and I have been spending quite a bit of time in the NICU. She gave birth to our first children, fraternal twins Ryan and Madeline. (Like backstories and context? Keep reading. Otherwise, go to...
Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform and that is OK 8 May 2013 | 11:16 pm
Many in the customer acquisition, especially the newer genre of "growth hacking" know of Andrew Chen, whose career has spanned the earliest days of behavioral targeting to today's platform era. I was ...
Idea Versus Execution - A Tale of Two Founders 24 Apr 2013 | 03:04 am
It's been six months (wow) since I wrote "Idea Versus Execution - A Stupid Simple Framework When Thinking about Starting or Running a Business." The genesis was personal, as a way to look back on my o...
Why Entrepreneurs Often Make Horrible Investors 8 Mar 2013 | 12:11 am
I had dinner last night with a good friend who built a highly profitable business and had a significant liquidity event. I built a profitable business and had a liquidity event, so I look at him as a ...
