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Learning from Google about Learning from Mistakes: Part 1 – Taking Risks

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 5, 2010 / 2 Comments

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down all future work on Google Wave. They unceremoniously ceased development on it, in spite of what must have been a ~$20M investment. Interviewed about it later, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, “Remember, we celebrate our failures. This is a company where it’s...
Subscriptions Solve the All-Call (and More)

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 4, 2010 / Leave a comment

Seth Godin made a post a couple months ago (ok, a few now), that’s been in my “to comment on” stack forever. Today, I’m pulling it off the stack. Godin’s discussion focuses around the old telephone systems that allowed you to page everyone in the company with a single button,...
Is YouTube Paying Creators like @EarlyBird?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 14, 2010 / 1 Comment

YouTube (owned by Google) announced yesterday that they would be backing their most promising video creators financially (NYT). Essentially, if you’ve been working in your spare time to build videos and people (as well as advertisers) have liked these videos, then YouTube might be willing to finance your next movie. ...
Identifying Billion Dollar Companies on Their Way Up

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 12, 2010 / Leave a comment

That’s what $1 Billion Looks Like. Now, How to See it in a Company? I’m currently reading a book about the origins of Facebook (look for a review of it on this blog in the next couple weeks). It lays out some of the offers and financing that the company...
Switching from an Operational to an Innovation Focus

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 5, 2010 / Leave a comment

Some companies have become famous for innovating (think 3M), while others derive their reputation from operational efficiency (think Honda). I’ve long been a proponent of innovation. In a paper for my MBA program I was asked to defend this decision and setup a structure with in a fictitious organization that would...
Looks Like Those 20% Projects Aren’t Hurting Google

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 22, 2010 / Leave a comment

I noticed this chart on Pingdom this evening and had to pass it along. A couple of thoughts: I don’t believe this is sustainable for Google. I think companies spend too much time trying to maintain these numbers, and its exactly what kills them. When I get news like this...
Netflix Gets the Scoop that Newspapers Never Did

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 4, 2010 / Leave a comment

There has been much press about the fall of newspapers and book publishing in this country. Truth be told, I feel no sympathy for either one. The writing was on the wall and they did nothing. I hope they find a way to succeed, because I think they serve a...
Providing Just Enough Flexibility

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 19, 2010 / Leave a comment

I am in the middle of an IS class in my MBA and it has lead me to question the true reason for a lot of the things that “just are” in the world of enterprise IT. One of the most interesting to me, occurred just yesterday. I was answering...
Goldman and a World We Don’t Understand and Shouldn’t Bother With

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 12, 2010 / Leave a comment

Image via Wikipedia Finance is not my area of expertise, nor the domain of this blog. This post will touch on it, but the point is more to use the recent Goldman news as a case study in how little we know about the world of high finance and why...
How is Apple like AOL?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 8, 2010 / Leave a comment

There have been a lot of comparisons have been made between Apple in 2010 and Apple when they were the leading PC manufacteur. There are concerns that some of the closed policies that eventually forceed them in to a niche in the PC space could force them in to...

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Learning from Google about Learning from Mistakes: Part 1 – Taking Risks

Identifying Billion Dollar Companies on Their Way Up

Switching from an Operational to an Innovation Focus

Looks Like Those 20% Projects Aren’t Hurting Google

Netflix Gets the Scoop that Newspapers Never Did

Providing Just Enough Flexibility

Goldman and a World We Don’t Understand and Shouldn’t Bother With

How is Apple like AOL?

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