Patreon Peephole: Highlights from Recent Member-Only Episodes
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Prediction: Unstable Platforms Will Devour Startups
Status: Occurring Prediction: Twitter and other platforms will jeopardize start-ups built on them Consider the four stages of platform risk: Desperate: A young platform that still hasn’t made a profit is desperate to find revenue streams. Many Twitter app providers have had the rug pulled out from them when Twitter began delivering the same features. Some of the better
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Finding Fulfillment in the Digital Workplace (CMS Wire Interview w/Steve Faktor)
An interview I did with CMS Wire By Blake Landau (@blakelandau) Jan 21, 2013 Steve Faktor is the author of Econovation and the Harvard Business Review article “Happiness Will Not Be Downloaded.” Faktor is an entrepreneur, futurist and digital commerce expert. He was a senior executive at American Express, Citi and MasterCard. Faktor spoke earlier this month
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Happiness Will Not Be Downloaded
Over the last decade, I’ve watched hundreds of cooking shows. It’s a matter of time before Martha Stewart demands UN sanctions for my stockpile of useless culinary knowledge. In reality, my own cooking is a malignant medley of boiled ravioli, lopsided omelets, and fresh veggies dying of embarrassment. So why do I torture myself with
The Journalist’s Last Laugh: The Liberation of Digital Media Talent
As a journalism student at NYU, I remember my immigrant dad interrogating me suspiciously about a profession he couldn’t possibly understand. He asked me the kinds of questions you’d expect from an engineer who just risked everything to drag his family out of the Soviet Union. “How will you make money?” he’d ask in his
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How Killing the Angry Bird Will Save American Entrepreneurship
Hyper-connected tech blogger Robert Scoble, recently wrote about treating startups more critically. Robert found himself meeting with lots of crappy, over-funded, digital startups that desperately need more time in the oven, an intervention by Dr. Drew, or more likely, Dr. Kevorkian. (My words, not Robert’s.) Not only am I seeing the same things, but I’d take it a step further. I
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The Risk that Ate the Digital Entrepreneur: Surviving Platform Risk
Beware of building your business or career on someone else’s platform—a survival guide.
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Five Ways Microsoft can Defeat iPhone and Android
It wasn’t long ago that bashing Microsoft was as cool as Hootie and the Blowfish and Blossom. There was no shortage of material – mangled pasting in Office, hideous mobile apps, and spooky Windows error messages that made you build a panic room. Even governments got in on it. The EU forced Microsoft to remove anti-competitive features from Windows. I think they
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In ‘The Matrix’, the Pudgy Nerds Will Rule
It’s been happening before your very eyes. Yet, you’ve failed to act. You’re both victim and accomplice. Shepherd and sheep. Unfortunately, it might already be too late. No, this isn’t the script for Tom Cruise’s next Scientology recruitment video. It’s my vision of a future where the virtual world is all-consuming and far more relevant