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Google to Open-Source Nortel Patents?
I love the idea that Google is the stalking horse for the Nortel patent portfolio. I hope what it means is that Google will release some of those patents into the public domain to drive innovation, instead of seeing them … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Product Development
Tagged entrepreneurship, Google, legal
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Relationships, Not Resumes
A colleague of mine is considering a new position. How did this person get this new position? It wasn’t about resumes, networking, or any of the usual things. It was all about a past relationship and a mutual trust shared … Continue reading
Posted in Career
Tagged career, employment, relationships
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Best Buy Privacy Fail: The Return of Corporate Gobbledygook
Barry Judge, the EVP and CMO of Best Buy doesn’t take my privacy very seriously. I know this because of the email he sent me last evening. The liberal use of the word “we” tells me this is a committee … Continue reading
Is Your Recruiting Team Damaging Your Brand?
The economic crunch continues with many good people still looking for work. As an employer, it’s good news in a way. There’s lots of great talent from which to choose, and you can generally get a qualified individual for less … Continue reading
Ugly Privacy Legislation is Certain. And it’s Our Fault!
Yogi Berra once said something like “you can observe a lot just by watching.” I recently added Ghostery (highly recommended) to see what information websites were collecting. What I observed was shocking, shameful and something that’s so out-of-control that even … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Marketing, Privacy
Tagged data, government, PII, privacy, regulation
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An Adult Approach to Data and Privacy
I’ve been a huge and enthusiastic fan of Evernote for some time now. I use it on all my computers, my iPhone and my iPad. I’ve been a premium subscriber for some time now and can’t figure out how I … Continue reading
Telecos + Open APIs + Developers FTW
I spent a few days at SxSW last week and had a great time and one key takeaway: Developers rule Not big companies. Not big VC dollars. Not anybody else. In today’s world of zero capex and lean startups (see … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Mobile, Product Development
Tagged API, cloud, developers, Sprint
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Marketing Ain’t Stealing
Simon Sinek’s post today covers a couple of faux products he purchased recently by mistake. His mistake. The companies that he purchased these products from had full intent of stealing his money by selling fake products and, ironically, destroying their … Continue reading
Beam Me Up
I was going through an executive coaching session with Steve Arneson a couple of weeks ago and somehow we got on the concept of leadership philosophy. Somehow that morphed to a discussion on Star Trek. I mentioned that I always … Continue reading
Fail Spectacularly
Andy Swan writes, as usual, another good blog post today. He asserts that in order to win, you have to know how much you’re willing to lose. And he takes to task the use of Chinese Math, which I learned … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Product Development
Tagged entrepreneurship, product development, startup
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