Ben's Place

"The minute you become external about your business, you have added a whole new department to your..."

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:08:45 -0500

“The minute you become external about your business, you have added a whole new department to your business.”

- The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog

"Tools like this that allow you to track what’s going on in your social networks and one-step beyond..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:30:52 -0600

“Tools like this that allow you to track what’s going on in your social networks and one-step beyond them are really powerful.”

- Social Discovery – What I Love about @plancast

"We see things as we are, not as they are"

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:14:22 -0600

“We see things as we are, not as they are”

- Leo Rosten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"There’s a saying that in China, if you’re one-in-a-million, that means there’s more than a thousand..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:39:24 -0600

“There’s a saying that in China, if you’re one-in-a-million, that means there’s more than a thousand people just like you.”

- If You’re Passionate About Something, You Can Make a Living From It Online

via i.imgur.com

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:21:40 -0600

via i.imgur.com

"Geography is just physics slowed down"

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:08 -0600

“Geography is just physics slowed down”

- 442 – Distilled Geography: Europe’s Alcohol Belts « Strange Maps

Building a Lean Startup

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:49:00 -0600

Building a Lean Startup:

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"Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean the market cares any longer"

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:33:55 -0600

“Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean the market cares any longer”

- SKMurphy » Quotes for Entrepreneurs - January 2010

"the running joke [on raising VC] is that as a first-timer, if you don’t have a prototype don’t..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:30:43 -0600

“the running joke [on raising VC] is that as a first-timer, if you don’t have a prototype don’t bother, then if you don’t have traction, don’t bother, then if you don’t have revenue don’t bother, and once you do have revenue – why bother?”

- Two zinger quotes

The Three-Minute Rule

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:43:19 -0600

The Three-Minute Rule

"Frankly I think the next wave of growth for [any talent management vendor] will be predicated on..."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:27:33 -0600

“Frankly I think the next wave of growth for [any talent management vendor] will be predicated on stickiness (going back to the application every day instead of every year) and intuitiveness (taking process out and adding intelligent decision support).”

- The Human Capitalist

"the flock always finds the best grass."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:06:13 -0600

“the flock always finds the best grass.”

- Milestones to Startup Success

"What should this premium only company do [about a freemium competitor]? If they launch their own..."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:27:59 -0600

“What should this premium only company do [about a freemium competitor]? If they launch their own fremium version, they will sacrifice much of their paid base to their own free offering. They paid a lot to acquire these users with the expectation that they would recover the cost through a high lifetime value. A fremium offer at this point become pretty hard to swallow.”

- Fremium Will Squash Premium

"80% of your customers use just 20% of your features, but each customer uses a different 20%."

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:52:03 -0600

“80% of your customers use just 20% of your features, but each customer uses a different 20%.”

- Releasing Early Is Not Always Good? Heresy!

"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success..."

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:29:46 -0500

“By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.”

- Approaching a Minimum Viable Product

Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:25:09 -0600

Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers

"You can draw any gradient through a single data point"

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:24:05 -0600

“You can draw any gradient through a single data point”

"The great advantage magazines have is glossy pictures. It’s better to read on paper than on..."

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:31:43 -0600

“The great advantage magazines have is glossy pictures. It’s better to read on paper than on the web but it’s much better to look at pictures on paper than on the net. Brides magazine is going to be the last one standing.”

- Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009