I was interviewed by Scott Olson over at Founder’s Buzz about how the mobile software world has changed in the last dozen years. This builds off my A New Year, A New Perspective: Web Economics in an App World post where I synthesize a number of thoughts on the fundamental P’s of marketing, hitting each [...]
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My Founder’s Buzz Interview
February 7, 2011Are You the Customer or the Product?
December 21, 2010If you aren’t paying then you aren’t the customer, you are the product. —————– A customer emailed me last evening and asked me to justify the price of powerOne for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. At first, I have to admit, I was a little insulted but as I thought about it more I decided [...]
Palm To Partners: Bend Over
December 2, 2010Looks like Palm is up to their old tricks: screwing their partners. I have a long history with Palm, for good and for bad. In about a one year period, Palm screwed Infinity Softworks three times, costing us millions in revenues. The first time was when Palm dropped their education team. Palm had a very [...]
The Economics of Fear
July 9, 2010In my lifetime — at least in the part of my lifetime I can remember — there has never been such a big debate about what to do with the economy. I believe very strongly that economic success is all about positive thought. I said quite some time ago on this very blog that fear [...]
Higher Taxes, Less Services A Thing of the Present
April 1, 2010I live in Oregon. In the election in March we passed two new tax increases, one on people making $200,000 or so per year or more and another on all businesses. The business tax raised the minimum and also passed, for the first time in state history, a revenue (sales) tax. I contend that the [...]
