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CrowdSourcing Starting up, questions, Part 1
To Startup. And How To find a Partner. And Under What Circumstances.
So there is this post going on at AVC.com. Aka Fred’s Place.
There are enough ideas floating around in my head that it may or may not be logical to just go and found a startup. Here are the Logistical questions. [...]
Also posted in Business, Ideas, Internet, Iteration, Starting Out 3 Comments
WSJ on Web Money, scary thoughts.
So I was sent this link yesterday because of my love of Real Time Economics
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/09/the-currency-revolution/
It’s worth a read and discussion. There discuss two different virtual currencies. Two are mentioned- Serious, and Ven.
Also posted in Business, Economics, Ideas, Internet, Media Theory Leave a comment
Walled Garden Social Networks
So some people out there think that totally open social networks are absolute brilliant and wonderful. I’m inclined to agree with them that they are brilliant and wonderful for certain purposes.
Walled Gardens are equally useful for the right people at the right time. Certain parts of life have not are are always going to be [...]
Also posted in Business, Ideas, Information, Media, Product Design 5 Comments
From Vladimir’s Blog
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So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
Also posted in Business, Economics, Ideas, Information 3 Comments
It appears that Business Schools need a Liberal Arts Curriculum
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So this week Fred Wilson’s a post went up about which books entrepreneurs should read. The comments are now being turned into a wiki.
The original post was in response the following question “What should a budding Entrepreneur Read?” by a regular reader, which inspired the writing of post. A well thought idea, if [...]
Also posted in Business, Ideas, Knowledge, Starting Out Tagged Blogging, Comments, Entrepreneur, History, Observations, Online Communities, Philosophy 54 Comments
Someone asked me about Second Life
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I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life. I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual game [...]
Also posted in Advertising, Business, Economics, Ideas, Information, Internet, Posts Tagged Business, Investment, Media, Social media, Theory 10 Comments
Aggregators, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
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Another post that is imperative to write about. *sigh*
I hate feeling like I can’t keep a good idea a secret. I feel bad that this company didn’t realize a good idea in their own product when it was staring them in the face.
So when I was at #NYTM, I [...]
Also posted in Business, Ideas, Interfaces, Internet, Product Design Tagged Business, Economics, Entrepreneur, Interface Design, Interfaces, Internet, Investment, Iteration, new toy, News, Online Communities, Software, User Interfaces, Web 2.0 Leave a comment
The New New Business of News
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While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense.
This is the third major age of newspapers, but not exclusively newspapers, [...]
Also posted in Business, Economics, Ideas, Internet, Media, Posts, Starting Out Tagged Business Model, Media, News, Newspaper, Services Leave a comment
Mediation on Religion: Or How to Culture Jam Judaism on the Internet