September 17, 2010 · 8:34 am
We’ve made it to the end of another week and so a food-related topic for today. Actually, it’s more of a lack of food topic since I want to mention a thought I had about fasting and business.
Tomorrow is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, a day on which every Jew is supposed to refrain from eating and drinking. That obligation is taken so seriously that one is considered to have participated fully in all the prayer services if they complete the fast even if they never set foot in the synagogue. Last month was Ramadan – a month in which Muslims fast from dawn until dusk. There are fasts in almost every major religion and the notion of willingly abstaining from food and drink as penance or for some other reason is yet another thing most religions have in common.
But penance is not what prompted the thought about business (a religion for some as well, I know). Continue reading →
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September 16, 2010 · 8:25 am
Back this morning with a quick thought I had while reading about eMarketer‘s new study on trends in mobile. As an aside, it seems as if there isn’t anything disruptive (like the introduction of the iPhone was) in near future but that current trends will continue and accelerate.
But that’s not what struck me. One thing I noticed was the term “smart phone“. That’s part of what, in my opinion, has caused the acceptance and use by markets of this channel to have been delayed until recently: thinking about these things as phones. Continue reading →
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September 14, 2010 · 11:32 am
I know – what is he doing writing about some old movie. Well, first of all, the name was For Love of Ivy and my title is different. Second of all, I can hear those of you under 40 asking what the hell I’m talking about.
Let’s start over. I’m not writing about an old movie but about a piece of new technology. OK, the technology itself isn’t that new but the business model may be and if this all pans out, another big change just happened. Did you hear it? Continue reading →
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