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In my post Three Nerds in a Tub I managed to predict the past.More...
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In my post Three Nerds in a Tub I managed to predict the past.More...
Today’s three rules are for those who want to be in the business of establishing a new category by providing free goods or services via the Internet. This is an exponential-curv More...
OK. Giving stuff away can be either a world-beating strategy or an excuse for having no strategy at all. How do you tell the differe More...
Sometimes businesses are built by giving things away. I’ve blogged previously about the More...
It wasn’t a tub, actually; it was a very well-equipped 47 foot sailboat which we delivered from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay to New York Harbor this week.More...
Once upon a time way back in the late 1960s I worked for a “facilities management” company which had gone public in the first data processing bubble but had no facilities to manage. More...
My father was a writer who could make prose sing – but he didn’t like talking about money so he was a lousy salesman. Thomas Wolfe wrote a novelette about publishers taking adva More...
It is almost impossible to sell something which customers can’t use unless they change the way they do business. That’s a hard lesson for an innovator to swallow because the bes More...