January 2010
6 posts
Strategy and the fast changing world
Nearly all the people with a business background (which is pretty much everyone: from professionals to craftsmen) talk about business strategy. Some define strategy from Michael Porter’s perspective and some have a hybrid theory coming from the many academics that started writing about it after Porter wrote his famous books in the 1980s. Strategy was based in a competitive advantage a firm...
How wrong we are when we're wrong
When we are at school we feel bad when we’re wrong. The academic system and almost every other system in life (even the Business environment until not so long ago) punishes people being wrong. If you’re wrong you’re gonna get yelled at, a bad great, grounded for three months and with no Internet. As humans we’re wired to be wrong and learn from that. It’s a path of...
Ideas made reality
So, I got this idea for a business last week and I have no idea how to code or do technical stuff whatsoever. That means I don’t have the technical knowledge to do it as I studied business. I’ve liked the internet and it’s potential for a long time, but never took interest (or had the time) to start learning how to do the coding part. I learned basic HTML (XHTML) and CSS, but...
User Controlled Privacy Settings
I’ve been looking at many social apps that don’t let users control their privacy or don’t encourage it. As users we produce information on-line all the time and that information is pushed to our friends, followers or connections in a way we can’t control. In this past year I’ve became all pro user control. The users need to be in charge of the experience they are...
Being an entrepreneur is not sexy, it's survival.
While reading some posts and magazine articles on entrepreneurship it came to me that many people see entrepreneurship as something sexy to do. I may be using the word sexy to mean lot’s of things in this post and I hope to explain myself better in the following lines. A few weeks ago I was chatting with a friend at a local Starbucks and he commented that he believed that entrepreneurship...