CEO = Vision? Unlikely.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Those of you who might have read my previous post, will be familiar with my frustrations with the matrix organization and how the problem boils down to a lack of leadership . At the end of my post I came to this conclusion: "What comes to me from this ...

Who Needs A Product

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

It's hard to find a company these days that's in it for the product. It's seems like online start-ups are the equivalent of commodities on an exchange; except instead of selling coffee, entrepreneurs are selling people, ideas, and very little of value. I can't tell you how many companies ...

Advertising is Dead… Long Live Information?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I've been putting a fair amount of thought recently into the idea of advertising as a medium that's changing to adopt to the new standards of communication. Beyond what we've seen on the internet my personal opinion is that we're in the midst of a change cycle in the ...

Is retail the only profitable online business model?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I read an interesting article on Read/Write/Web this morning that talked about the viral effect and building scale in Web 2.0 companies. One of the main points made in the article surrounds the idea that there are three online business models with varying degrees of complexity. The easiest model to ...

Ajax for Ajax sake

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I'm a huge proponent of new media technologies like AJAX and a fan of the content it enables. But, having said that I can't stand the new AJAX feature Netflix has implemented on their site for browsing new releases. They've moved from a simple interface that listed all of the ...