By guest author Daniel Burrus When President Obama became president, it was widely reported that he used social media and technology to help gain the momentum and the votes he needed. Today, if we look at the republican candidates and their use of social media, we see that each has a lopsided social media strategy
By guest author Dr. Marty Nemko This article is an adapted excerpt from his book How to Do Life: What they didn’t teach you in school. It’s been said ad nauseam that your network is the best source of a job. That’s true, but most people who are seeking career advice have already exhausted their networks.
Sramana Mitra: What about loyalty? We’ve talked a lot about the process of gift giving. Would you talk about loyalty? You said you’ve also worked quite a bit on the intersection of loyalty and payments. David Stone: Yes, there are obviously a ton of players in the loyalty space, and a lot of interesting companies
Marty Nemko’s mother claims that he could read the New York Times at age 3 and that his reading comprehension in the first grade was at the 12th grade level. That’s either the exaggerations of a Jewish mother or the first sign of what was to come. Today, Nemko is among the nation’s most sought-after experts on
Sramana Mitra: Let me pick up on a few things you said and drill down on those. You were talking about “back to the future” as in we went to this client–server model, a more distributed model, and now we’re going back to a centralized, hosted solution that is accessed by [thin] clients, and in
Sramana: You are looking at a $40 million run rate. Where are you looking to go from here? Is going public something to consider? Matt Dusig: Luckily, we took some chips off the table when we sold our first company. We are not starving artists and there is no rush to sell early this time.
How can entrepreneurs hijack capitalism back from the speculators? Sramana Mitra will be discussing Capitalism 2.0 and ways entrepreneurs and innovators can hijack capitalism back on Thursday, January 26th, at The Commonwealth Club in Santa Clara, California. Please join us for a lively and interactive event. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. You can find more
Sramana Mitra: What about returns? In the previous use case, you said you were in a Gap, saw a pink sweater, and decided to give that as a gift to a friend. Let’s say the friend receives that pink sweater and decides she wants a different color. How is that handled in your system? David