Posted on March 20, 2011 ¬ 3:07 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Ceci N’est Pas Un Téléphone – This Is Not A Telephone
An over reliance on using the cheapest forms of communications by many entrepreneurs – particularly those outside the US – results in lost venture capital, lost customers and lost partners who simply could not hear what you had to say. So put Skype down and pick a regular phone to make all those critical calls (and they’re all critical by the way).
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Commentary, Customers, General, Revenue Generationbest tools, customer relations, customer service, entrepreneurship, opportunity, quality, sales, Skype, startup, telephone
Posted on January 27, 2011 ¬ 5:44 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Technology Topples Governments
The use of Facebook and Twitter is fueling the growth of democracies in Egypt and Tunisia, respectively.
The printing press was invented in 1493 yet democracies did not truly begin in the modern era until 1776.
Facebook and Twitter are together less than six years old. Where will we be ten years from now?
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Commentary, General, International, Technology, Trendsentrepreneurship, newspapers, opportunity, political protest, startup, trends, Vietnam War, Wikileaks
Posted on December 12, 2010 ¬ 4:18 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Wikileaks and The War In Vietnam
What do the recent hacking events related to Wikileaks have to do with the Vietnam War? We’ve entered a new era of political protest (i.e. hacking) because we haven’t found a suitable alternative. Newspaper readership is declining and there is a need for new ways to protest. So what would you do today to protest the Vietnam War?
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Posted on September 23, 2010 ¬ 4:33 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Citizens banding together in anonymous fashion to protest against an organization, person or event will grow in the years to come. We are already seeing this as evidenced in last week’s successful DDoS attack against the MPPA and RIAA websites. Perhaps it is the beginning of the anti-Facebook, anti-MySpace, generation?
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Posted on September 9, 2010 ¬ 6:24 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Total apps downloaded at iTunes will soon exceed the total number of songs downloaded on iTunes. Who would have believed this to happen and to happen in such a short period of time.
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Posted on August 27, 2010 ¬ 12:20 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
We’re so busy trying to conjure up the next Facebook that we’re missing Facebookx10 opportunities. So start innovating outside the box (e.g. the Fifty States, the EU).
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Posted on June 17, 2010 ¬ 4:27 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Ever more complex and burdensome features have been built into products in the mistaken belief that “more is better” as design has shifted away from actually engaging and listening to the end user.
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Posted on June 10, 2010 ¬ 10:15 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
12 easy steps to follow in order to begin designing products like Apple. Some serious some not so serious – for you to decide which is which.
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Posted on June 7, 2010 ¬ 12:54 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on HTC Android Gets an “F” in Branding
HTC Android Gets an “F” in Branding. It actually launched on the Home Shopping Network. I kid you not! Stupid is as stupid does.
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Posted on June 3, 2010 ¬ 7:04 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Do I love Android or do I hate AT&T?
How we phrase a question leads us to different insights and conclusions about products, markets, business plans and how we see things. You can ask: why do people love the iPhone? Or, you can ask: Do I love the Android? Do I hate AT&T? Do I hate Apple? With the new iPhone coming out and AT&T gouging it’s customers it’s time Sergey and Larry started asking: Why doesn’t anyone love me?
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General, Marketing & Advertising, Revenue Generation, Technologyandroid, att, entrepreneurship, innovation, iPhone, marketing, product design, startup