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Comment on Embed Youtube audio by Personelle Horizonte | killefit.net

Personelle Horizonte | killefit.net — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:12:09 +0000

[...] YouTube zu finden ist, so dass man zum Beispiel nur die Musik eines Videos im Blog einbetten kann. Dann guckt Euch einmal diesen Artikel hier an und schlagt danach Eure flache Hand genauso vor die Stirn wie ich: Das Video wird auf diese Weise [...]

Comment on Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner – Superfreakonomics by Chris Anderson – Free: The Future of a Radical Price « State the Obvious

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:09:53 +0000

[...] the small stuff, and notice that it has huge potential. See my fascination of Freakonomics – here, and NETFLIX – [...]

Comment on Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D. – Coping With Difficult People by Gary A. Williams & Robert B. Miller – Change The Way You Persuade « State the Obvious

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:06:37 +0000

[...] While I was gathering theory for my thesis, I stumbled across an article from Harvard Business Review published in 2002. It is almost a follow-up on what I was talking about here. [...]

Comment on Marketing 2.0, but not Company 2.0 by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams – Wikinomics (on Business 2.0) « State the Obvious

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:01:57 +0000

[...] While prancing around at the BI library I came across a re-release of Wikinomics, written by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. I did not read the entire thing, but I felt that I needed to post something that I have talked about before, Marketing 2.0, -> Marketing 2.0, but not Company 2.0 [...]

Comment on Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture by Don Livingston – The Last Lecture « State the Obvious

Don Livingston – The Last Lecture « State the Obvious — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:53:12 +0000

[...] to consume some lectures found on iTunes U. Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” – discussed here – inspired Western Carolina University to have one with political science professor Don [...]

Comment on Cultures clashing – and how to prevent it by Basse

Basse — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:00:32 +0000

Skrattade så ja nästan grät. Fy fan va kul, ni skulle tagit i lite till så japsarna verkligen fick lite kulturchock! Hahhah

Comment on Fredrik Törn – Challenging Consistency by Sponsoring – Get more bang for your buck « State the Obvious

Sponsoring – Get more bang for your buck « State the Obvious — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:13:32 +0000

[...] Prof. Eric Olson gave us four articles to read concerning sponsoring, and it touches upon something I have written about before, namely here. [...]

Comment on Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture by Time Management « State the Obvious

Time Management « State the Obvious — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:46:16 +0000

[...] have written about Randy Pausch and his book “The Last Lecture” before, and mentioned his reason for being a successful researcher/friend etc. He managed [...]

Comment on When the customer limits your development by Johan Olsson

Johan Olsson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:42:13 +0000

I agree with you, and many of the problems that we see in the big industries today are that they concentrate on asking the consumer what they want – don’t get much out of it and therefore pump billions into R&D. Instead, there are thousands of men and women who are “crazy” enough to quit their job, work in their garage and at the end of the year come up with something that might revolutionize the industry.

The problem, or should I say, the difficulty the big ones have, is that they need to answer to at least two groups that will hold them back – the board of directors, and the stock holders. They want to have good numbers, they want their dividends at the end of the year. An entrepreneur does not face this.

There is a way of course, that is highly used, and that is that the entrepreneur invents the product, and then the big ones buy that from him/her. And I guess that is why companies often give a blank check to the entrepreneur. They know that they just saved them, the board of directors, and stock owners a lot of money.

Congratulations to be the first person to leave a comment, I actually did a little victory dance when I saw. Okay, I have gotten some comments before, but most of them asked if I wanted to have a bigger penis or if I wanted to see “Rusian Laids danzz”.
I’m fine on both stages.

Comment on When the customer limits your development by Manne

Manne — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:14:36 +0000

It is a bit like the famous quote by Henry Ford (which he might not ever have said, just like the one about getting any colour car you want as long as it is black…):

“If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said ‘Faster horses!’…”

There are several variations on the theme available, but they all hint at the fact that for truly disruptive and innovative products you as an innovator just have to stick to your guns and do what YOU think is the right thing for the market. Without falling into the “build it and they will come” trap… ;)

Personally I think that it is a matter of timing. For something really new and out of the box, getting customer research through questionnaires and interviews early on in the project can be dangerous. Once you reach a stage where you can put a prototype in front of a customer and see if they grok it, how they interact with it, you will get really valuable input.

// Manne