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You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum!
Jan 24th
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They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished. In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Africa More >
Kick Ass At Fast
Jan 23rd
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Larger companies are able to use their scale to define the rules of their industry, and do so to their advantage. This works very well when the industry is stagnant, but leaves them unable to adapt quickly to fast-changing competition.
When You’re Small, Being Faster than Your Competitors is Your Biggest—and More >
Pop-up café takes orders via Twitter
Dec 2nd
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It was not long ago that we saw household appliance brand Electrolux create The Cube, a pop-up restaurant designed to generate publicity for the brand’s kitchen appliances. In a similar vein, energy company Electric Ireland recently created a free Twitter-powered pop-up café, to stand out from the crowd at this More >
Industry-Leading, Game-Changing, Next-Generation Nonsense
Dec 1st
BufferPeople know marketing-speak when they hear it. When you start your pitch with words like these you damage your credibility before your foot is in the door.
Leave the “Impressive Sounding” Jargon Out of Your Sales and Marketing Vocabulary
Your prospects are intelligent, genuine people and they want to deal with other More >
Don’t Judge Innovation
Jul 14th
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The Deceptive First Version
The first automobiles were noisy, expensive, and required constant maintenance. The early Internet was not very useful. The first mobile computing devices were extremely limited and barely mobile.
Don’t Judge the Significance of a New Innovation by the Quality of Early Implementations
To properly gauge the potential of a More >
Ideas Worth Noting #1
Jun 24th
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Bizner, which started in February as an online bank for entrepreneurs, just announced a new service. Bizner is the first bank in Europe to offer complete integration of banking and accounting, which it calls BizBalance. The aim of this financial hybrid is to save customers the time and hassle of More >
Difficulty Creates Opportunity
Jun 21st
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Long before Twitter, Facebook, and the current financial crisis, Einstein proposed three rules of work:
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
“From discord, find harmony.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
These rules are truer today than ever before. We have encountered increasing media clutter, organizational discord, and financial difficulty—in short; we are in an More >