Business

We recently finished landscaping our yard — front, side, and back. We’re really happy with how things turned out. Before landscaping, we had HUGE wheat-looking weeds all over the place, which hid the basketball-sized rocks beneath. Now, we have grass, trees, curbing, and a nice cement pad to BBQ and entertain. I’ll explain the whole [...]

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Product Management is often confused with Product Marketing and Technical Program Management. At some companies, all of the above are actually seperate delineated positions. At Amazon, however, they are pretty much the same job entitled: Technical Product and Program Manager (TPPM). Funky, ain’t it? Actually, there’s very good reason why Amazon has done it this [...]

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Jason Calacanis is clearly customer focused.  He’s using the interactivity of the web as a real-time focus group.  This does several things: For AOL, it helps them improve quickly and creates a TON of goodwill with its customers.  For the customers, it helps them to feel listened to and that their thoughts and ideas are important. This [...]

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I am reading Robert Greene’s 33 Strategies of War. It’s a good book and I’ve learned a lot already. From time to time, I’ll summarize a strategy that I’ve learned from the book and provide examples. Today, I’ll be talking about the Polarity Strategy. As an introduction, Greene says this about Strategy: Strategic warriors operate [...]

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Update: After I posted this, I was Spinged 22 more times. That brings the total to 52 Spings in 3 hour period. I need to look at implementing captcha for my comments. More Update: I installed Akismet and I added a math question for comments to prevent bots from comment spamming me — and, I [...]

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I’m almost finished with the book “33 Strategies of War“. It’s okay, but reads more like a textbook than a nice book you can really get engaged in on a cozy, rainy day. But, it’s alright and I’m learning a lot about strategy and operations in the toughest environment there is — WAR. I’ve always [...]

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Is this an authentic Blog or a Splog? http://compassion.blogging4free.com/index.php/ 2006/05/31/watson-amazoncom It’s tough to tell; at first glance, it looks authentic, but it doesn’t add any original content, there are links pointing to the real authentic blogs, there are ads, and some of the links are questionable. Scroll down and you’ll see a link to shmula [...]

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