April 2012
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WatchGian Fulgoni from comScore on the future of e-commerce.
March 2012
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“Our clickstreams, search history, likes, tweets, photos, and so on and so forth...”
– Venture capitalist Fred Wilson has some very interesting thoughts on on-line privacy:
There are signs that Washington is gearing up to do something big in the area of online privacy. The FTC put out a report earlier this week and the White House called for a “privacy bill of rights”...
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“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is...”
– Henry Ford
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“This new class of micro-entrepreneurs is doing the same thing MBAs have been...”
– Leah Busque on Why Independent Employment Is Killing the Nine to Five Job
I’ve been shouting about this very subject, myself! Diversify your income!
@mini_utne
(via moneyisnotimportant)
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Warren Buffett's $50 Billion Decision →
A story on how Warren Buffett started his business - by Warren Buffett.
I certainly did not want to sell securities to other people again. But by pure accident, seven people, including a few of my relatives, said to me, “You used to sell stocks, and we want you to tell us what to do with our money.”
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“B2B companies that narrowly focus on product and price are doing the bare...”
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Creating impact requires providing a meaningful change in a customer’s productivity or profitability.
First, you must articulate what makes your company different from your competitors and reinforce that difference at every customer touchpoint.
These are fragments of an useful article...
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“And human nature hasn’t changed much in 5,000 years. There’s this...”
– Peter Lynch
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How to handle too much data and be smart
The key to success in the world of too much data is ignorance. But you need to be really good at it. Quality ignorance makes you a tactical, well working filter. You don’t need to know everything - in fact, it’s impossible. You just need to know a few right things.
More about that: What Science Wants to Know by Stuart Firestein
Sure, you have to know a lot to be a scientist, but...
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“We need at least two hundred crazy people who think their idea alone can solve...”
– Speaking to the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics conference, Bill Gates sounded the call for ambitious entrepreneurs willing to explore cutting-edge avenues of energy exploration, from clean power to carbon capture. (Via GigaOM)
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“I don’t want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.”
– Philip A. Fisher
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“Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went...”
– cdixon.org: The myth of the overnight success
It’s much easier to notice somebody’s success than hard work. But success is an effect of a hard work, right? So stop yelling about 1% and move your ass.
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Why “Everything should be made as simple as... →
An excellent article by Barry Ritholtz on problem of making predictions based on simple assumptions.
No one seems to remember the second part of Occam’s razor as rumored to be stated by Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
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“Google is about to launch a new commenting system that will tie into the search...”
– Google to Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform to Rival Facebook (via thenextweb)
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Retail: How 'Limited-edition design' works
We’re getting so much info about discounts. However, limited-edition seems to work for retailers as well.
More about that here: Retailers Have Designs on More Black Fridays
It seems to be working: Gap’s line of kids’ clothing with Diane von Furstenberg, which debuted at 206 stores in the U.S. and Canada last week, sold out in many locations within hours.
That’s usually a discount, but...
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The danger of multiple choice
Making a product with tons of futures and options is not necessary a right way to go. People like to have a choice, but nobody likes to be confused. Especially today, when we have so many things to compare.
You can get more info about it here: What clarity is all about
They can love it, hate it, be indifferent, etc. But they can also be confused. And “I’m confused” is the worst option of all....
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Why you should be skeptical of predictions
Does finding correlations between variables might help predicting the future?
It’s hard. Unfortunately, that kind of data will never show you the whole picture. Statistically isn’t for sure.
Roger Pielke writes about that problem:
But the authors then commit a common social science error by concluding that the high correlations give “surprisingly accurate predictions beyond the...
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E-commerce: Words that motivate people to buy
No big surprises. Free! is the word that works really good for potential buyers.
Roger Dooley from Neurosciencemarketing.com writes about a new research on that mechanism.
More than three out of four shoppers cited “free shipping” as the factor that would get them to purchase, and the second most common was “free returns.” This data underscores the fact that FREE! still works like a charm.
The...
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Jim Rogers on how to be successful - not only...
Here’s a very informative interview with Jim Rogers on following passion, dealing with economic problems and investing in commodities.
Uploaded by: VisionVictory
01:00 Choosing a career path and being above average.
02:00 Jim’s childhood.
03:00 Picking goals.
04:00 Oil market.
05:25 Agriculture market.
05:45 Booming economies. “What’s bad for some people, is very good...
