What’s even more dangerous for a company than not being profitable is not understanding why they are successful. Success doesn’t beget success. Understanding the reasons for it does. When a company has a hugely successful product, the human tendency is to stick to it—get all you can
This is Color’s business model: Advertising through the app. We’re going to build a intelligent system that allows businesses to participate with their customers. So when you walk into a restaurant and you use Color, and they’re also customers through a self-service Web interface — or actually
Jean-Louis Gassée on RIM: RIM reigned at a time when your Blackberry came with everything you needed. RIM is a perfect example of what can happen to a dominant company that doesn’t attempt to cannibalize their own successful products. RIM was perfectly content to continue selling you email-
Shawn Blanc thinks Twitter can’t exist in its current form as a paid-for service: My lengthier response is that it’s hard to imagine Twitter ever expected to grow as fast as it has or become large as it is now. And now, in a way, I think
Stephen Hackett is selling a really neat t-shirt to support St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and the fantastic work they do: St. Jude treats patients without regard of their ability to pay. That’s pretty cool. To put this into perspective, Josiah’s medical bills — after just 6
Ben Brooks: The fragility of free is a catchy term that describes what happens when the free money runs out. Or — perhaps more accurately — when the investors/founders/venture capitalists run out of cash, or patience, or both. Because at some point Twitter and all other companies have to make
Apple announced the iPad 2 today, and it’s about what we expected: thinner, faster, lighter, with front and rear-facing cameras, and the same screen. It goes on sale March 11th. Apple says it has “up to” 9 times the graphic performance of the first iPad, and their new
Earlier this week, District Court judge Gladys Kessler upheld ACA, deciding that it is constitutional based on the Commerce Clause. Her reasoning is absurd, and reveals exactly how precarious the Democratic healthcare reform law’s constitutional basis is. You can read the decision in its full text here (http://blogs-
Seth Godin: For content to be fabulous, for tablets to be more than game platforms, folks like Apple need to do two things:Reward creators instead of taxing them.Create promotional channels so that curated great stuff (not merely things from big companies) has a chance to reach a mass
HP’s Steven McAurther mentioned “Music Synergy” in an interview with Engadget about webOS: Steven: Think about what Sonos has done in the home, integrating different services into a clean interface that allows you source the content irrespective of where it comes from. They’re a little company — think about
Last week, I added a new page to the site: Books. There are certain books that I am still thinking about, learning more from, or using in some way years after originally reading them. They are books that go beyond “worth reading”—they are must reads. Those kinds of books
The Secret Service is one of those agencies that isn’t in the headlines often, but they prefer it that way: it means they’ve done their job. Marc Ambinder has an intriguing look into the Secret Service—he was allowed to follow them while they secure foreign dignitaries at