Tag Archives: Business

The end is near- (or not)

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2010
So, while in the middle of taking a look at all things New York Tech Meetup (even if this requires admitting to myself that I am single, gawd), one of the realities of All Things Social Media has taken on reality. It’s name is Hot Potato.  It reminds you of that game, Hot Potato, that [...]
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The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition

By Shana | Published: March 10, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I know it is late.  I’ve had a humongously amazing, yet busy week. (and I don’t normally talk like that)  I feel so thankful that I am finally really starting to become less shy with people in the NY Tech Community.  Everyone I am meeting has been wonderful.  Y’all are [...]
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McKinsey, you are not in Vogue on the Internet

By Shana | Published: August 24, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I had orignially written something way too snarky.  I realized I am far too classy for that level of snark. I had gotten my lucious copy of the September issue of Vogue, hereafter known as the Bible.  My copies of W have been missing over the summer.  I’ve given up the women [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

By Shana | Published: August 16, 2009
Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr 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 [...]
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Aggregators, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly

By Shana | Published: August 16, 2009
Image by Dead Air via Flickr 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 [...]
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Hearing the Voice from Cisco’s Chambers

By Shana | Published: July 26, 2009
Image by dfarber via Flickr In Saturday’s WSJ, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers explains parts of the long term strategy to survive a downturn.  One thing that seems to be a theme of the new strategy, beyond the buzzword of the moment, Web 2.0, is their interest in video. It’s their big, open, yet dirty [...]
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Consensus-Based Funds, or in which an idea is sketched broadly out

By Shana | Published: July 24, 2009
In one of those comments where one never knows quite what the author originally thinks, I had written on Fred Wilson‘s blog, avc.com, Why aren’t there easier ways for average people to invest outside of pooling there money into institutions which then invest for them. Who says I have to like CalPers choices? (if I [...]
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The Atypical Customer-Venture Capitalists

By Shana | Published: July 7, 2009
I follow Fred Wilson‘s blog, avc.com, regularly.  It is my must read every day, alongside some sort of news, if I can get it. Both the posts and the comment section are worth it. Under the post, “The VC’s Customers (Continued),” there is a comment by Chance Barnett, who writes: That entrepreneurs are the VC’s [...]
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Great Art is Stealing

By Shana | Published: July 6, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Why is it that the most successful work out there seem to be refinements of what already is? It seems mysteriously difficult to come up with something unique. Defining ones uniqueness in a market of competitors is among the most difficult tasks placed on anyone who is an entrepreneur.  It doesn’t matter [...]
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