First, a warning. Valuation is in the eyes of the payer. But at some point, all entrepreneurs need to tell investors, their board, or maybe their recruits that will be getting equity what the valuation of the company is going to be. The correct answer is, “I have no idea” …
Even if you get vision, culture, and brand right, success is still measured by the things you can capture in a spreadsheet. My favorite spreadsheet, though, are the ones that tie all those things together. This past summer, the students in my MBA class took special note of my, perhaps, …
Most projects that fall into the realm of Digital Transformation (DX or DT, depending on your analysts of choice) will fall short or outright fail. We have cataloged these many mishaps from the stories we gather from Mobile Thought Leaders (MTL) and the Digital Transformation Thought Leaders (DXTL). We collectively …
For the sake of history and to support my next media project, I am posting all the ancient AMPT Radio archives to AMPTRadio.org and to SoundCloud. Episodes will be available, in their entirety, as playlists like: and I will also be adding all the extra bits that never made it …
No promises that Google is the true measure of our interests, but there certainly are lots of reasons to follow the aggregate search results. You ignore these trends at your own peril. Be sure to check assumptions regularly here : https://trends.google.com For many Enterprise technologists, marketers, and product managers these trends …
A very concise description of marketing and how it can have a valuable impact on product in ways that can be forecast and measured. Marketing Value Chain from Nilofer Merchant
As typically happens during campaigns, the arguments about tax rates in the United States focus on all the wrong questions.The real questions should be “what lifestyle do you want to live?” and, then, “what is the best route to get there?” Mitt Romney’s gaffe, describing the 47% of Americans who …
This week’s jobs report by the federal government was about 80,000 new jobs short of projections. Those 80,000 jobs, unfortunately exist but have not been filled because America has failed to properly interest and train people with the skills to do the work that needs to get done, the work …
With the rhetorical overuse of terms like “let the market decide” being used in campaigns and debates I think it would be beneficial to define what real markets look like and when market forces work. Markets are neither magic nor wise. It is a term that describes the cumulative effect …
