Why I Stopped Posting The primary reason I stopped posting on The Strategy Blog two years ago was that the posts that were the most popular were the least fun to write. In all the excitement of launching the Blog in July 2009, I wrote my friend Taylor: I intend to use the comprehensive financial [...]
Roundup of links to start your Monday morning thinking: The aggregators of today will be the original reporters of tomorrow — it’s how disruption happens (Nieman Journalism Lab) Pinterest’s awesome signup process (Business Insider) BBVA Pursues Profits Among The Unbanked Using Nontraditional Data (Forbes) Launch and Experiment, Not a Startup (Vinicius Vacanti)
Admittedly, 2011 was a very dead year in terms of new posts, but there was still a fair amount of visitor traffic. The top posts of the year are as follow: 1. Excel Best Practices 2. Financial Modeling: Key Concepts 3. Jet Blue’s Strategy Behind the All You Can Jet Pass 4. Operating Synergy 5. [...]
Roundup of links to start your Monday morning thinking: Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain what went wrong (37 Signals) Role of Genes in Life-Long Intelligence Pinned Down a Bit (Scientific American) Apple’s mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement (ZD Net, via Clay Shirky) Online privacy: Do we have a right to be [...]
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