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Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffet Every board meeting I’ve attended in the last several months has been dominated by discussions about preserving cash, getting to break-even and how crappy business will be in 2009. I struggle with such discussions. It’s not that I don’t [...] Image via CrunchBase Today, Google and T-Mobile will announce the T-Mobile G1, a new phone that runs Google’s mobile OS, Android. This is interesting news because it adds another competitor to the smartphone mix and competition is always good. The announcement is made even more interesting, IMO, because of Amazon’s introduction [...] I love good advertising. Well, perhaps, appreciate is a better word. The innovative messages that stick in your head and and drive you to buy a product, understand a position or, at the very least, make you want to tell others about them. I think they’re a fascinating study of human psychology. Often, the [...] It seems that every journal these days, whether it be printed or online and regardless of the constituency it serves, does some quantitative analysis of quality. Of course, there are also loads of third party quality reviewers (think J.D. Power) and several quality awards (think Malcolm Baldrige) all of which attempt to gather loads [...] I’ve consumed a lot of venture capital starting companies over the years. Not those insane amounts that you read about, but enough to make me wonder what the hell we did with all that money along the way. For the last few years, though, I’ve been fascinated with the idea that highly leveraged companies [...] In my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to have sold a handful of public and private companies that I was running at the time and acquire about a dozen others. Looking back, the activities and process around mergers and acquisitions may have been the most fun I ever had as CEO. Probably even more fun than the [...] It never ceases to amaze me just how far a service provider is willing to bend backwards to save a customer who has made the decision to bag a service, especially given how little effort they put into retaining the customer in the first place. I recently went to the eFax web site to cancel [...] I recently read a story about how Volkswagen is considering NOT bringing the upcoming Scirocco (an updated version of their 80′s hatchback sports coupe) to the US market because it might take market share from their currently offered GTI hatchback. While this may be an excuse masking other reasons for such a decision, if it [...] Brad Feld has a great post titled, Fear is the Mindkiller, up on his Feld Thoughts blog. Being a generally anxious entrepreneur myself, it’s hard to deny Brad’s claim that there are huge advantages to letting go of fear, anxiety and guilt. At least from a wishful perspective. From Brad’s post: I have long [...] [Note: it looks like the sites mentioned in this post have been taken down] I ran across a reference to the site, The History of Branding on the trythisonforsize blog. If you’re at all interested in brands and branding or corporate takeovers and spinouts, you gotta check this site out. Each one of the logos [...] |
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