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The Entrepreneurship in Project Management

Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. My point is that each and every project has the obligation to revitalize our client’s business. We should really treat it as such, and not just see it in management terms that are done like bad chores, like taking the trash out, doing dishes, or vacuum the house.

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Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Baseball Hour” Show Idea

Awsome idea by Gary Vaynerchuk on a video postcast show, free to grab and execute by anyone: Open a pack of vintage (or not so vintage) baseball cards. Talk about the pack company as well as the containing cards.

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Twittter Weekend Summary

I didn’t read any tweets over the weekend. Felt kind of weired.  So today I was finally able to catch up with all the stuff that was going on, here summary: ■Makani Power took in $5M for high-altitude wind energy by flying 10-square meter kites at ~800 meters altitude. The investment was made by google.org. [...]

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Over-The-Top Video And Telecom’s Dumb Pipe

There is no such thing as “Dumb Broadband Pipe”. The worst thing video service providers can do is petitioning a Network Neutrality.

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Death Of The Long Tail?

Social networking and media consolidates niches, forms new brands; long tail concept as we knew it dies and becomes a specialized thick tail.

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"Silicon" Valley gone after 50 years

The end of the “Silicon” in Silicon Valley has been obvious for a long time, even if the timing has not. Given housing costs, salaries, regulation, water and energy issues, manufacturing in the Bay Area has been heading for the exit for more than a decade.

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The Difference Between Divorces and Jobs

In recently helped out at plotting the future of a company after being acquired. On a side note, I had an almost philosophical discussion with friend that studies psychology whether or not marriages are easier divorced than jobs quit. My argument was that marriages are much more emotional, and failure will hurt much more than [...]

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Digital Entertainment Evolution – TiVo Gets It.

TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.

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When Acquisitions Fail By Keeping The Status Quo

recently helped out a friend that finally found a seemingly great fit for his marketing company up in Vermont. The Buyer was a large US wireless carrier that wants to have more control over targeted and social advertisement. Because I’m usually sitting on the other side of the table, it actually happened that I knew [...]

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Project Status Reporting In Small Projects

How to create a simple project progress reporting dashboard in Microsoft Excel

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