I have come to a conclusion that I think is important to share with all of you out there inventing new products and companies. I used to believe that great products could find their way in the world, that good products, once customers got ahold of them, could find their way to business models that [...]
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Start with the End In Mind: Switching Business Models is Hard
August 30, 2011Generational Technology Change Means New Winners
June 4, 2011We are in the midst of a massive disruption of an entire industry: the technology space. My children, currently aged 5 and 3, are already using technology in a way that previous generations did not. And we are seeing a massive change coming from the major providers of software in this space: Apple and Microsoft. [...]
Computer Science Is a Misnomer
March 15, 2011I was talking with a good friend recently about his start-up company and he was asking me questions about working with developers. I commented to him, off-hand, that the idea of managing software development changes drastically when you think about developers as creatives instead of scientists. Artists, musicians, software developers all spring from the same [...]
A New Year, A New Perspective: Web Economics in an App World
January 16, 2011January starts my 14th year running Infinity Softworks and being in the mobile space. I have seen this market change drastically in those years, from a market dominated by Palm to a market dictated by Microsoft, from handheld computers to smartphones, from Nokia and BlackBerry to Apple and Google. And, from my perspective, the most [...]
Are 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 [...]
