alexhawket

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by alexhawket 15y ago
Unfortunately it's not possible to "stop" designing web UI as there is no standarzied ui library in html/css. Web apps have been shoehorned into a system that was never intended to behave like an app. Stopping random UI experiments would re
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Standardized identity as a service with a distributed client/server approach like email. Companies can offer their own service and customers sign up to their chosen provider. Users are supplied with controls to determine what components of
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Services like Spotify and Netflix are marginal cost services. Their intent is to monetize the previously non-paying customers like yourself at unheard of low prices. However, it's not all gravy. Marginal cost services cannibalize a portion
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by alexhawket 15y ago
That image is missing a fourth circle: stuff you can do that's better than the current stuff (with the resources you have available to you.) If whatever you want to do is not better than existing options then there's no point in doing it si
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Yup their stregths are also their weaknesses. Big opportunity for a contrarian to go in and do the exact opposite of one or more of their hiring strategies. Avoid the elite schools completely and radically cut the cost of acquiring talent (
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by alexhawket 15y ago
There are four key components that every business must have to succeed: 1. Products (more products are better up to a point) 2. Sales + Marketing (more sales are better) 3. Efficient Distribution (less cost is better) 4. Research + Developm
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I noticed that too.. that's classic disruptive innovation. Expand doward into a market that previously couldn't afford the technology, forcing your competitors to ditch the low end and concentrate on the more profitable high end.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
If you take the road south from there, there's a giant round bunker like building http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.425258,93.25&#38...
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by alexhawket 15y ago
"If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald."
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I'm trying Vienna at the moment.. it's quite good so far. http://www.vienna-rss.org/ (It's free too.)
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by alexhawket 15y ago
It's called poetic licence, this is why I never comment on here, it's tedious backing up every little comment with 10 pages of pseudo-factual internet trivia. Trucking ships more ton-miles per year than rail and by value is an order of magn
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by alexhawket 15y ago
His comment reminds me of that old adage that when trucking took over, railways would not have gone bust if they had known they were in the shipping business rather than the railway business. Feature phones are communication devices that ju
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by alexhawket 15y ago
There's are a number of services in the US for shipping US products overseas such as http://www.shipito.com/
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Is that the modern reference to octopus or the legendary reference to the mythic kraken sea creature?
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I'm more interested in the day when there are so many drones, they spend more time fighting each other and forget about the humans all together. We may never even see them, dogfighting above the clouds, save for a the perpetual flutter of b
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Well Beanstream is in Vancouver for one ( http://www.beanstream.com/ )
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by alexhawket 15y ago
And while you're at it.. New Zealand please!
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Re-Imagining the Printer - SWYP: See What You Print(vimeo.com)
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by alexhawket 15y ago
British Columbians recently voted and repealed the HST in their province.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
No surprise here, the majority of that list are sites used by internet marketers for traffic/link building etc. They all deserve a mighty wallop upside the head.
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The Xy Files (1998)(salon.com)
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by alexhawket 15y ago
the 10%+ breakage is not "pure gravy" given that the coupons are governed by the credit card act of 2009. They are valid for up to five years. Unlikely to be redeemed, but they are a liability on the books.
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Focus and Scale on the Internet(strategy-business.com)
1 points by alexhawket 15y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of Hard(adaptivepath.com)
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Practical Tips to Lift Your Conversion Rate(bruceclay.com)
1 points by alexhawket 16y ago|0 comments