Surviving Market Turbulence
The current credit and equity crisis is bad, but it has been made worse because too many people unwisely buy high and sell low.
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Products that Sell and Products that Work
The other day I found myself telling someone that a company I know of has “a product that demos well, but it doesn’t work well once you buy it.” We all know the type, right? At the extreme end are some of the gimmicky items you find sold on TV infomercials. Some of them actually…
College Aid in Troubled Times
Christopher Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast discusses how the current economic environment impacts student options when paying for college. He shares tips and advice on how to minimize costs and maximize aid.
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Surfing Back in Time
I had a conversation yesterday that spurred me to think back to the “old days” of the World Wide Web. You see, I’ve been at this game long enough to remember Yahoo before it was at Yahoo.com. Most of you probably don’t know that it used to live at http://akebono.stanford.edu. In any case, I took…
More Food for Thought from Failure
Mark Goldenson, a co-founder of a failed startup called PlayCafe, has a guest post at VentureBeat where he discusses lessons learned from his experience. The whole column is worth a read, but here are a few things that popped out at me as being worth further comment.
Neither Love Nor Hate Should Guide Your Business Decisions
Infatuation and antipathy make very poor business partners. One cannot divorce decision-making from emotions entirely, but one must endeavor to limit the influence of the heart over the head. How many times have we all made choices in the heat of the moment that we later regret — in business or otherwise? Take, for instance,…