Are You Underinvesting In A Lifetime Opportunity?
July 9, 2010 – 4:57 am | No Comment

It is a common sight in Chinatown (both San Francisco and New York City) and it has always disturbed me.  It is the sight of old, Chinese ladies hauling big bags of plastic bottles and …

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People Are Products
August 23, 2009 – 11:50 pm | 2 Comments
People Are Products

Human beings, regardless of culture and location, look at all things according to their use, purpose, and value.  Two of the most common questions we ask ourselves when we discover any new thing are “What …

New York City vs Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs
July 3, 2009 – 6:24 pm | No Comment
New York City vs Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs

There is a rivalry between New York City entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.  The California crowd boasts the most and some of the biggest venture capitalists in the country with a flurry of entrepreneurial beehives …

Corporate Centered vs. Passion Centered Marketing
June 10, 2009 – 4:07 pm | No Comment
Corporate Centered vs. Passion Centered Marketing

After going through a number of interesting posts from Grant McCraken, I got to one of his older posts written in December 2007 entitled Understanding The Whole Consumer.  He mentioned how parts of a consumer’s …

Faces
May 30, 2009 – 7:19 pm | No Comment
Faces

Brad Feld (VC and blogger extraordinaire) recently wrote a post about faces.  His first few paragraphs took me back to my college Biological Anthropology class and how powerful faces are to human beings.  Brad’s friend …

It’s Human Nature, Not the Economy, Stupid!
May 20, 2009 – 4:07 am | No Comment
It’s Human Nature, Not the Economy, Stupid!

Daily TV news programs report that the United States and other countries are in a terrible recession. The U.S. is in the worst state it’s been in since the great depression.  The pointy fingers of blame …