Posts Tagged ‘business’

Tribal Leadership —

Business books are an interesting genre. In another life, I would love to have participated in something like critical business studies that took its cue from critical legal studies. (Maybe this field exists?) That noted, I have to admit that I have read enough of the books in my time that I recognize the role [...]

Farming versus Mining —

Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, maker of Library, has a nice post up that compares two ways of approaching the software business: farming versus mining. Essentially, farming is the old-fashioned way of building a business to last, building with the long game in mind. Mining is the new way to do business: build a business [...]

Own Your Data —

I had never heard of Lendle until they found themselves on the wrong side of Amazon’s API guidelines, but I agree completely with the assessment offered by The Economist: “The brief outage demonstrates a fundamental truth about the internet: if you don’t own the data you need to run your business, you’re dependent on the [...]

Rational Irrationality

A great New Yorker essay by John Cassidy essentially arguing that people who make money by making things are better for the economy — rather than people who simply make money by making money. In this case, the two companies being compared are Apple and Goldman Sachs.

Why Wesabe Lost to Mint —

Great post by Marc Hedlund on his blog detailing the rise and fall of Wesabe. Like the Snapper story, I love these kinds of thoughtful business narratives. (There’s got to be a project in that.) I tried Mint but ultimately was uncomfortable with my financial data traversing the intarwebs. (I know, I know, it does [...]

Google eBooks —

Google’s eBooks has finally emerged from its Google Book shell: Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the [...]

Everybody’s Talking Bout Disintermediation —

Everybody’s talking about disintermediation, but, as Don Linn points out: Disintermediation is nothing new. It happens when businesses change so get used to it. Sears, Roebuck disintermediated the local dry goods store when it mailed its first catalog and it continues unabated in every sector…not just publishing and bookselling.. As Mike Cane has pointed out, [...]

Harvard Cozy with Business —

It should came as no surprise, given what we know about the many tentacles of Goldman Sachs and how far they reach into the various centers of power in the U.S. as well, it seems, in Europe, that all Goldman Sachs was doing was following, or building, on the work of bastions of respectability of [...]

The Future of App Stores —

This essay might have also been titled The Coming Differentiation of Trust but that seemed like a really ugly slug. The (In)Security of Apps Only on rare occasions do I wander into the territory of security, a domain I consider to be almost as complex as religious experience in America, but the recent scare on [...]