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Brand Futures

Buying Shoes – Scanning the Store – Do you feel guilty? Nope!

January 4, 2012

Do you feel a little exposed shopping and scanning the merchandise? I still do. On Monday I went shopping with my son for basketball shoes. Sports Authority was pretty well shopped over. We’d find a shoe only in the wrong color or size. Before long I had my ShopSavvy App out and was scanning potential [...]

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Netflix – Misses a Convo Opp – Blows off customers.

July 13, 2011

Yesterday Netflix announced new pricing. A 60% increase in the cost of getting DVD’s. Many complained that Netflix failed to provide an adequate rationale for the move. More than 5000 comments on their blog post. All resoundingly negative. And there’s a thread #dearnetflix on Twitter. However, as a Netflix user it’s obvious to me why [...]

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Palm means HP takes control of their destiny. For Windows, it’s another blow

May 6, 2010

I feel HP buying Palm was a gutsy strategic move. Will it work… only time will tell. They certainly have time working against them. I wrote a post below commenting on why this leap of faith was necessary. It’s inferred. Tomi T Ahonen set this up with a question: “Will two years from now there be [...]

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Emerging Market – Research to Action

May 8, 2008

A few years ago my brother gave me a book Investment Biker. Written by Jim Rogers a VC who took a motorcycle on a tour of the world and then from what he learned made investment decisions. I think we’d both like to follow that dream and ride around the world that way. I know [...]

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Buy Nothing Day – This Friday USA

November 21, 2007

My daughter reminded me about Buy Nothing Day and made a commitment to forget the shopping on Friday. This protest has been building for years in fact since 1992. I thought it’s a good time to take stock of my consumerism, before the family all get too wrapped up in that gift giving season. Many [...]

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Pleo on the Move – in Social Media

October 18, 2007

Sadly, I couldn’t make it to Poptech this year; having been twice before. So today I watched on live.poptech.org as Pleo a robotic lifeform was presented by its designer Caleb Chung of Ugobe. He also designed the Furby (My daughter had to have one!) and shared drawings of his approach to creating it. – Facinating! [...]

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