TheMadPeacock On The Sofa

When we moved from our 3 bedroom house in the UK to our small apartment in LA we boxed up much of our library and other things we did not need day-to-day and they have traveled with us from apartment to apartment for 5 years, mostly living in the “guest room”
Well with the immanent birth [...]

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I am a big believer in using technology like LinkedIn and Plaxo to help drive sales.
Over at LinkedIn they have released (in Beta) a very powerful new section that I have been encouraging my team to use and thought I would also share here. This feature is in Beta so is constantly evolving and new [...]

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Over on BeyondVC Ed Sim has a nice post entitled Tips for the first VC Meeting I found this article through BrownBlog’s post entitled Tips for the first VC Meeting or Customer Stating how to Sell to Him
The root post is very insightful and should be read and digested by anyone selling software face to [...]

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The Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2006
“Chesbrough is not the first academic to grasp the superior economic value of intellectual over tangible property in today’s economy. But he may be the one who has thought most deeply about its consequences for business.”
I could not put this book down! it is full of insightful examples of [...]

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Wichinomics was recommended to my by one of the VP’s at Emergent, having read it
I feel the need to share it with you. It is an enlightening book that focuses on the changing world of Internet togetherness, mass or global collaboration also known as crowdsourcing.
In a previous job I had the honor of working with [...]

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I purchased this book because Amazons web site recommended it to me based on my past purchases and the recommendations of its members. Ironically this software as a service type crowdsorcing system is part of what is being discussed in the book itself.
For me open source as a business is fascinating. The idea of [...]

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