Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
uh yeah, not enough time… that’s exactly why I don’t get a hardcopy newspaper anymore. I’ll sidestep the quality issues that have faced the LAT as well as the charges of liberal bias, and get to the core. The problem facing big metro newspapers isn’t too many stories (pages btw drive ad inventory, which makes [...]
So now we’re down to 785 hostages that Columbian narco-terror group FARC is still holding. A great amount of the commentary on FARC has centered on 45 high profile hostages they were holding, but this number is paltry when compared to the conservative number of 3,000 hostages the group is responsible for taking. Hostage taking [...]
Theories like The Long Tail regularly get taken to extremes in this business, often elevated to the stature of law on the basis of will power alone. What is happening now is a natural correction that pulls back the scope and reapplies the learnings for a better outcome. I think we all intuitively know that [...]
For me, Charlene IS Forrester. Sad to see her leave, but at the same time it’s not hard to understand why. Forrester has bent over backwards to be accommodating and flexible, but in the end, I have decided that I need to have greater control over how I allocate my time between work and family. [...]
The slope is indeed a lot more slippery than it looks… Rep. Pelosi’s bill would subsidize the 600 money-losing Starbucks locations by giving away millions of taxpayer dollars in so-called ‘Venti Vouchers’ to residents of these hard-hit neighborhoods. If the effort fails to revive the flagging stores, Rep. Pelosi said Democrats would “seriously consider nationalizing [...]
Toyota is brilliant, their success as branding themselves as the “clean and green” car company and leading people to dismiss General Motors as some wheezing dinosaur of the rust belt is just about as big a marketing success as getting people to buy tap water in a plastic bottle. Furthermore they have done this while [...]
I admit it, credit card processing networks are a complete mystery to me. Having said that, whenever anyone talks about mobile payments the first thing I think about is those little keypads that are standard POS devices now. How exactly would these schemes work? Does the POS device need to be upgraded or is it [...]