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Facing Facebook
I’m faced with some key decisions about how to integrate InsideSpin further into the social networks of my target audience. I did some simple things with LinkedIn a while ago and turned my attention more towards Facebook of late. It … Continue reading
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Setting Corporate Strategy
With all the innovations in technology over the last many years, including whole new ways to manage the development process, there seems to remain at least one bastion where experience still rules — setting corporate strategy. The first challenge typically comes from … Continue reading
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Blog More …
I was told I have to Blog more — i’m not sure if that is an indication someone feels I have more wisdom to share or my small readership has more time to spare. Anyway, I find blogging a hard … Continue reading
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Family Innovation
My son has been working off and on over the last few months to develop his own app for the iPhone. He started programming at the ripe young age of 10 with Visual Basic and now has evolved to building … Continue reading
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Competing with On-Line
Kids are exposed to the vast and unconstrained world of on-line from an early age, finding it harder and harder to want to spend time in the real-world, as it just does not stack up. You can see this perhaps … Continue reading
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Rising Stars
I attended and spoke at a technology entrepreneur conference in California this week — aside from the group witnessing the unique event of the Toronto Maple Leafs winning an away game (I admit they played well), i also had the … Continue reading
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Virtualization – Does Anyone Really Know how to Do It Well?
I found myself reading a report on-line today that was showing how poorly companies are implementing virtualization — in particular, how they are essentially falling backwards in achieving greater efficiencies in their infrastructure compared to the wastage they had before … Continue reading
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By Vision or Consensus
One of the things I find most compelling about the entrepreneurial world is how it divides into those who are vision led and those who lead through consensus (market study, everyone’s opinion). On first glance, this might seem like an odd way … Continue reading
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Customer Advisory Councils to Affirm Product Strategy (“don’t let the tail wag the dog”)
Many companies attempt to set up customer councils or advisory boards to help direct product strategy. One of the many challenges is to find customers (or other potential partners or users) who both have the time to participate, but more … Continue reading
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Need Skin in the Game for the Advisor Role to Work
As I develop some time-dependent experience being an Advisor, one thing is clear — if there is no skin in the game for the CEO or management team, very little value is obtained. Only one of the companies i work … Continue reading
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