jeremy snyder's meta|remix

courtesy of the harvard business review.

1. Don’t just focus on building beautiful products. Build beautiful business models, new ways to create, deliver, and capture value. The iPod and iPhone would not have had nearly as much impact if they hadn’t been matched with iTunes and the AppExchange respectively.
2. Think in terms of platforms and pipelines. Competitors that chase Apple’s latest release find themselves behind when six months later Apple introduces its latest and greatest offering.
3. Take a portfolio approach. While Apple has been on a phenomenal run, not everything it has introduced has been a home run. For example, Apple TV hasn’t had the “revolutionary” impact that Jobs predicted upon its launch in 2007.

i read a lot, between blogs and books. and i talk to a lot of people about business ideas, models and opportunities in new media and social media. of course, we often talk about virtual worlds like twinity.

but rarely, in all of those conversations, do you come across things that really click. this was one of those. of course it seems obvious once you read it here, but as with most businesses, the key is in execution.

this was also an “>audiobook of war of the worlds, kind of a dramatization. and i’m really glad i did it that way, because that allowed me to get a sense of what the panic was like back in 1938. Continue reading »

this one was also an audiobook. i actually enjoyed it a lot, partly because it was recorded by someone talking as though he were from the era when this was first published. Continue reading »