“We never pretend to have everything figured out, in fact we are pretty ignorant about a lot of business issues still, but at least we feel less clueless than we did last month. One thing is certain, we will always try to stay a small company, keeping a very close relationship with our clients, the question that we are still debating is how big can small be?” —
I found this interview I did with the folks at Harvest back in 2006 about my first agency Blue Flavor.
Six years later, and I’m pleased to say that not much has changed.
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“Given the MacBook Air’s pricing and Apple’s apparent commitment to be even more competitive with the mainstream PC vendors with this model, signals to me that they really want more of the hallowed ground that traditional PC vendors tread today.” — Why Apple Scares the Wintel Vendors | TechPinions
Excellent charts, data and analysis on Android fragmentation
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Amazing.
Apple is outperforming the competition by such a huge margin that UBS is taking Apple out of the S&P 500 to get a more accurate picture of the tech market.
The results are striking: For all the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, earnings are on track to post a 6.6% year-on-year rise in the fourth quarter. Once Apple’s earnings are factored out, the expected fourth-quarter gain shrivels to just 2.8%, according to UBS.
(via Apple’s Size Clouds Market)
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Social Media Explained
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An impressive slope. iPhone and iPad contribute to a $100 billion spike in revenue for Apple in under five years.
(via Apple’s $46 billion sales set new tech record)
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In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle.
But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.
Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.
Average is over.
” — Thomas Friedman