It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached a point in the markets where having a long-term view means having an opinion on what will happen in the next 6-12 months.
–Ed
An Analyst’s Analyst
“Lots of analysts rely on connections and it is usually that what they are doing is gathering information and not doing any analysis,” he said. “I don’t have any such inside connections. What I have is Internet as my connection as it is more valuable to me than those special connections.”
Round 3 of Christmas Food Shopping
We’re hosting Christmas at our house this year. We wrapped up all our pre-everyone-coming shopping, this cart full of stuff at HEB. It’ll be great!
Christmas 2011
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Freemium Mechanics from Jeff Nolan
Ultimately the freemium model is a strategy that increases the catchment of leads as a result of using your product as the primary marketing vehicle through which you deliver a funnel to. Take care to structure your website so that every aspect of the content you are creating is designed to deliver a site visitor into a product experience or isolate them for followup through a traditional enterprise sales process.
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For me the mechanics of a freemium business are some of the most interesting to be involved with in a modern software as a service company. The implications of billing and provisioning system dynamics, how you structure your website content, surface funnel analytics, build upselling cues into your application, and manage high volume sales nurturing processes are incredibly complex but increasingly normal for the B2C and even B2B markets.
Dr. No
2011 Review and The Problem With Old People
Ed and I discuss the past year as it relates to the money world. During that conversation we talk about the rising pool of old folks, #occupywallstreet, and Japan among other things.
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If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you – Back of the Envelope Podcast #006
Ed and I are back to recording in this episode. I finally get someone to explain why we care about Europe tanking and then we talk about my angst over Microsoft. The recording cut out before we could talk about the Thai floods – hopefully my equipment will work next time.
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“Then, you’re going to see competitors like Huawei. But I’ve known this for 25 years. We…”
“Then, you’re going to see competitors like Huawei. But I’ve known this for 25 years. We studied them very carefully for almost a decade now. I can tell you where their leader, where his jobs were, what his family was like, what was important to him in life, what he is most likely to do on each move, we play out that hand. We know how they’ll come at us. We know how to also challenge them in terms of their weaknesses, and they have a lot.”
– John Chambers at the Cisco Systems, Inc. – Shareholder/Analyst Call
