CrazyCatDog

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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
This is what happens when Corporate Strategy = Corporate Development. All large companies, especially conglomerate tech companies need an active corporate strategy team who monitors divisional progress against strategic goals (i.e. not fina
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
I don't buy the pivotal assumption: "Among the top 10,000 sites that show third-party capable advertising, we find that on average 15% of users visit the site at least 10 times per month, with the more popular sites tending to hav
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
The messy question here is: who is to say that he modified the contract?
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
>>but if I were to recommend one or the other to people at work with no programming skills, I would have to choose R for the breadth of existing packages. My 2 cents: If someone has no programming background, then building a foundatio
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
Folks, We are not yet in a world where cloud > local for the top 45% of Dell's most profitable customers (think big, very big). And if we ever get there, I don't think they will be looking to Dell/VM for a solution. Thos
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
Dell has maintained a relatively legit bond rating...this will certainly change things. Their cost of capital will increase, and I'm not quite sure I ne'er stand the strategic value in the acquisition... Why not just partner/
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
This is great news because hopefully it will allow Thumbtack to become the domestic services platform. Think the funding and valuation is too high? It takes inordinate marketing spend to become a focal point outside of metropolitan areas.
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
Try deploying and a different OS with easily understandable UI. Make it easy so that companies can issue laptops and upon first login the machines are appropriately imaged per the user needs. Make sure that strong user limits are in place t
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
There is no need for grants in top b-schools. Whereas other academic departments pay faculty 9-months out of the year, even third-tier b-schools will pay for 2/9 or 3/9 of your salary in the summer if you publish just about anythi
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by CrazyCatDog 11y ago
Ibm still doesn't understand mobile... Great write up, I went to the site and tried to sign up for beta access to Watson chef, only to have the Watson chef website tell me that they don't support my screen resolution for sign-ups.
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by CrazyCatDog 12y ago
Yes. It's no longer a secret that Google has begun to share ad-revenue with oem's. Fortunately, Microsoft is in no position to do so.
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by CrazyCatDog 12y ago
Between my wife and I, we inevitably have to pick-up diapers at the grocery store between amazon diaper orders (we are irrational and don't have a diaper subscription from amazon)...Having a button in the diaper drawer would go a long
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by CrazyCatDog 12y ago
Stated goal number 3: "Maximizing developer investments" It's hard to think of a worse strategy. "Maximizing return on developer investments" is what Microsoft ought to be doing...
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by CrazyCatDog 12y ago
Agreed, it's hard to find any other marketable IP in IBM's portfolio.
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by CrazyCatDog 12y ago
Don't be confused, Win10 will be sold as a service: "free in the first year" will make it very difficult to re-win-d back to win7 or win8 once uncle Nadella starts threatening to brick your pc lest you start paying. New visio
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by CrazyCatDog 12y ago
When the going gets tough, firms call in consultants. When Bain or McKinsey arrive, they tell you to make a change. Is your firm centralized? Decentralize it! Is your firm decentralized? Centralize it. Donahoe's "master fix"
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by CrazyCatDog 13y ago
Right turn: right suspension compressed, left wheels on the outside have further to travel, if both spinning at the same speed then you will break traction on one side or the other. Not sure what type of differentials are legal in F1, but t