For any number of reasons, there comes a time when many entrepreneurial-minded people decide to take on “real jobs.” These people have great energy, and I have hired a number of them over the years for exactly that reason. They are driven, passionate, and they can be valuable to an organization. At the same time,… Read More Advice for Entrepreneurs in “Real Jobs” »
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WAP is an acronym that used to refer to a specific protocol but is more generally used to described mobile web pages adapted to non-smartphone users. Ever since mobile phones started having internet access, one of the most complicated things to do has been to built WAP pages in a way that even the most… Read More Consumer Segmentation and the Death of WAP »
Stats are abundant, and everyone counts a little differently. If you look hard enough, you can find stats to support any conclusion you want to draw. One thing that is clear about 2011 is that there were definitely significant shifts among mobile platforms that played out differently across the globe. Take a look at this… Read More Winners and Losers: Mobile Platform Battle of 2011 »
Personal cloud services grow. Cloud services are not just for tech companies and server admins anymore. Consumers are buying real estate in the cloud too. Music services are the first to the party, with iTunes Sync, Amazon Cloud Player, and Google Music taking the concept to mainstream consumers. Dropbox is another star to keep an… Read More 5 Predictions for 2012 »
My good friend, Wes, posted a status update about what was up and down for him this year in terms of media consumption. Here’s my version, reflecting on my own digital habits of 2011. This year I got an iPad, and while it took a while to get attached, my tablet usage has exploded this… Read More Ups and Downs in Personal Tech of 2011 »
There is a lot of buzz out there these days around HTML5, especially in mobile, where it enables a much more native-like app experience on the web. In reading a book on HTML5 recently to try and get myself more familiar with the coding detail, there was a pretty consistent theme of powerful capabilities that… Read More Appreciate Good HTML5 Web Developers »
Yesterday, I posted about the real 10 ways iPhone changed the game. Among all the things for which iPhone deserves credit, these are the things I feel are iPhone’s most significant contributions to this modern world of smartphones. Today, I am zooming in on the iPhone 4S and what really matters about this most recent… Read More Most Significant Feature of iPhone 4S »
Whether you are an iPhone fan, an Android junkie, a Windows Phone pioneer, or a BlackBerry loyalist, you have to respect the tremendous contributions Apple has made to this modern world of smartphones. Here are the top ten contributions iPhone has made in paving the way for modern smartphone dominance. 1) Mechanism for updating the… Read More 10 Ways iPhone Changed the Game »
Last week I participated in a panel at DCWeek, and around my session, I was pitched on a few new product ideas. Some were good ideas with great energy behind them but often missed the mark on step one of new product development. First, what problem are you trying to solve? While there are a… Read More First, what problem are you trying to solve? »
Back in business school, I remember a marketing professor driving home the importance of customer segmentation by pointing out that the average American has one breast and one testicle. This pretty direct example showed that simple averages do not always produce meaningful information for business planning. Customers are not carbon copies, so why treat them… Read More What’s the Real Value of Customer Centricity? »
