chapter four – my 30s
The third in the series of blogging from the hospital bed while the Bee and the newbie sleep. Yesterday The London paper – News International’s London free evening paper – announced it was closing up shop, having made 14Million in revenue last year I was shocked that the paper had a loss of almost 13 [...]
I’m a big fan of using sporting analogies for business strategy. From Yogi Berra (“It ain’t over till it’s over” and “If you come to a fork in the road take it”) to Wayne Gretzky (“Skate where the puck is going”). So it’s no surprise that I use sports philosophies when thinking about acquisitions, mergers [...]
I’m getting really tired of news outlets interpreting moves as significant when they’re not. I’m tired of sensationalist journalism when really, if people stopped being either lazy or stupid, they’d find simple explanations. Two cases of this recently have set me off. First a lot of noise around Microsoft’s search engine Bing. Bing’s nice. It’s [...]
While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years after it’s [...]
People move. People leave companies. It happens. New CEOs, directors, leaders, like to bring in their own people, it happens. Here’s the thing, in technology people don’t make markets. Seeing myspace bring in former facebook staff do I think it’s going to help myspace take over facebook? No. Seeing AOL bring in former Googlers do [...]
Innovate and execution I was listening to Sheryl Sandberg’s talk at the Entrepreneur’s corner at Stanford. She’s super smart and it’s a good talk. With a background in international aid and development in the Clinton White house, Sales and Ops at Google and now COO of Facebook – nuff said. Go listen to the podcast [...]
“If you build it they will come”, erm not always. Google built Chrome and a lot of people dropped everything and anointed Google king of the browsers. I liked the idea of Google building a browser, it gave them a tremendous starting point and laid the foundation for cloud computing through Google Docs. So a [...]
I like using Flickr. Infact, I liked using it so much I ponied up 20 USD for a pro account and have topped it up. I also enjoy Facebook, but would I pay 20 USD a year for Facebook now, probably not. Now if facebook had begun by only introduced a limited function for free, [...]
I read an interesting article on Lebron James, one of the premier Basketball players who plays for the Cleveland Cavs – and how he supported different teams growing up. From the Bulls (from Chicago) the Yankees (from New York) and the Cowboys (from Dallas), not sure who he supported in the NHL but as Cleveland’s [...]
Google’s launched a new browser, Chrome, and it’s nice. Sleek, very very very very fast (the Usain Bolt of browsers), easy to use and download, and it’s running on web kit and its open source so it’s extensible. But I won’t be switching from Firefox, my browser of choice, just yet. I’ve tried Chrome a [...]