Go To Barry’s Blog – Jan 13,2009
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[Guest Post: Katherine] Your Update is Not Perfect, Shiny, or New
This is a rant.
Meet the disgruntled customer:
We’ll call her, oh, let’s say, Katherine. Katherine sees the infinitely shiny and appealing new application store on iTunes. Katherine wants. Katherine eagerly downloads applications and proceeds to cry a bucket of invisible tears when she realizes that she must wait (oh no) a whole ten hours for Apple […]
My Day at CNBC with Donny Deutsch
I was in New Jersey today at the studios of CBNC taping The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. The show was about “The Comeback Mindset: How Do We Comeback from Failure“. I looked forward to showing Donny how to “Bounce!” Unfortunately, I arrived at 3:00 AM last night after the flight out of […]
Go “Westlink” in Calgary
I spoke this past week at Westlink’s Innovation Conference. in Calgary, Alberta. It brings connects representatives from industry, venture capital, government and academia. I entrepreneurs and researchers at various stages. An interesting futurist speaker that I listened to was Dr. Thomas Keenan of the University of Calgary. He talked a lot about trying to protect the info you […]
Big Brown Knows That Sometimes Failure Just Stinks
News Item: NEW YORK (AP) —”Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. says he feels “like a loser” after Big Brown’s stunning last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes, and he was still searching for answers Monday about what went wrong. Big Brown became the first horse seeking the Triple Crown to finish last in 140 years of running […]
Closing A Business
The decision to close a business is never an easy one. Most of us want to honor the great American rally cry of “Winners never quit and quitters never win”. Nonsense. Sometimes it makes real sense to close a business when you have run out of cash or passion or both. As they say, “winners […]