One of my least favourite sayings is that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. I really hate the idea that someone at any time stops learning. Or that someone can’t possibly learn the skills they need to be able to do something big. At the same time I really hate it [...]
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Equanimous
Today’s word of the day is “Equanimous”, and is brought to you by my good friend (and the Bee’s cousin) Tasleem Thawar. I can’t remember the exact context in which Tasleem introduced me and the Bee to being equanimous but it’s been a term that has stuck with me for while.
According to [...]
Leaving Yahoo!
I’ve always believed in the idea that you should leave a place in better shape than you found it. From when I go to a fast food restaurant and make sure I give the table a good wipe before I take off to my professional career. So with tomorrow – my last day [...]
Brand advertising 2.0 for the music industry
I really like Spotify, so much so that I give them 100 quid a year to be able to listen to the service on my iPod and in Switzerland. I also like thinking about metrics and measurement. Which is why this whole kafuffle about Spotify not paying artists enough or how the creative [...]
Promoted tweets – the tip of the social media iceburg
So Twitter’s announced their monetisation model, “promoted tweets” will be seen from search queries around brands. To a lot of journos this looks a lot like ad sense / search engine monetisation that the likes of Overture / Google introduced years ago. But there’s more to this with Twitter.
People forget that social [...]
Bebo, lessons from the edge of the deadpool
So news came out recently that Aol was looking at either shutting down or selling of Bebo, the UK based social network that they bought a couple of years ago for about $850 Million for. I used bebo for about a day, but nevertheless I’m quite sad about how this is turning out.
Aol and [...]
Building for value and profit
There’s an interesting discussion off of Jason Calacanis’s latest This Week in Start Ups with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) of 37signals about running a company and scaling. In a nutshell, Jason’s point is that there is finance available and companies should try and raise money to “swing for the fences”. DHH say’s that’s [...]
The good type of failure
“Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it you’ll land amongst the stars”
I have to admit when I first heard of the Canadian Olympic Foundation’s goal of “Owning the Podium” at the 2010 Olympics I was a bit taken back, it just didn’t seem very “Canadian” to me. And even though I [...]
The FriendDA or I promise not to be a moron
After writing my last post, I circulated it to a mailing list and had a bunch of nice responses. There was some interesting conversation and some interesting ideas, which is always a good thing. One interesting email came from a business school classmate of mine who’s working on an interesting concept to disrupt [...]
An MBA’s opinion on MBAs and start ups
There’s an interesting post on some dude’s (or dudette’s for that matter) posterous about MBA’s and start ups. The post starts off talking about a conversation that was overheard at some café in the valley where a couple of MBAs are going off about joining a start up and the fast lane to riches. [...]