What’s WRONG With Publishing (Really)?

Why am I down on the publishing world? It’s starting to make little sense why I would write something that while widely read could be given out in a “cleverer” format. Doing a book with a major corporation just starts to seem…odd, given the proclivities in which I do everything else now. With that far-reaching statement, and by means of explaining my thought process, here is why publishing, as the kids say, needs to man up and change itself.

Broadcom: Valuation

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The last month has been a great revelation for me. I have ventured beyond my comfort zone to research and understand the nuances of various other related segments like WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, set-top boxes, broadband modems, DVD players, and Ethernet. Such is the depth of Broadcom’s business. Before I go

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Word of Mouth: Marketeers’ Delight and Nightmare

One of my absolute favorite sites on the web is TripAdvisor, which we reviewed a while ago. Let me use a screenshot from the TripAdvisor home page to demonstrate what Word-of-Mouth can do to a business:

A Discussion Mark Zuckerberg Never Had

By Gadi Shamia, Guest Author I actually didn’t plan to write about Facebook any more. In my recent post I claimed that Facebook is not solving any real problem. My readers were kind enough to prove me wrong … Jason thought we were just too old, and Jose thought that the problem Facebook is solving

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