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HRTechTank NYC. The Highlander and the HR Enterprise
HRTechTank NYC. The Highlander and the HR Enterprise This is the second post in advance of the HRTechTank NYC on Feb 5th. Killer bees never become the cataclysm the news…
Human Resources tech. New entrants battle the legacy
Human Resources Tech are the startups consumerizing HR and building products that are employee friendly. Now they’re battling legacy systems
Salesperson
If you are a salesperson I have written this for us. If you are the Vice President of Sales or the ‘C of something’ you should read this also.
Short tech history and the cult of company
Many entrepreneurs are idealizing a mythology and not appreciating the operational system that preserves, develo…
Seneca warns us, On CROWDS
👴 Seneca is like a long lost father
📨 This post is his Letter 7, On Crowds
“The young character, which cannot hold fast to righteousness, must be rescued from the mob; it is too easy to side with the majority”
HRtech
HRtech and the trajectory of the puck As a kid I papered my bedroom with posters sloppily posted to white walls. Bruce Lee was my favorite and he was (and…
HR Tech and the rush to chase where the puck has been
HR Tech and the rush to chase where the puck has been Welcome to the HR Tech Thunderdome. HR Tech suffers from that same over exposure and glut of poor…
Startup Selling. Professional Services.
Cheap to get a company to achieve escape velocity. Expensive to get it to maintain an orbit
Charging too little. Leading cause of startup death is price
Starvation is the leading cause of Startup death. Chasing prospects that are chasing the cheapest price is deadly
Facebook, Tesla and me
Facebook, Tesla and me
Start up selling professional services. A sales brute force post mortem
Start up selling professional services. A sales brute force post mortem. Many companies don’t die of client starvation, they die of client indigestion
Tesla, Facebook and tech indigestion
Facebook and Tesla., the market and me.
All the Way. Cranston on Broadway
Bryan Cranston is not creating a Walter White franchise and All the Way, about President LBJ, is marketed badly’. It is not a one man show and it is bril…
Game of Thrones: my unqualified review
My only credentials for authoring a review of Game of Thrones is that I have binge watched it. All of it. Over one weekend. The marathon just completed t…
Twitter. Still not Buying
🗓️ This post was written after Twitter’s IPO and its first earnings call.
🎩 It was a gentlemanly affair, not what you would expect from a company that is a publicly traded startup, w/o a viable business model and ad revenue eroding rapidly
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – My Review of the Broadway Debut
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – My Review of the Broadway Debut I am now at an age where I should be indulged for a small bit of reminiscing. I…
What if you’re not creating value. The UX paradox
User experience can create value, sometimes it doesn’t
Venture Capital Burgers. Eat today, pay tomorrow
Wimpy wants a burger and he asks to postpone payment. Venture Capital Burgers eaten today will be very expensive tomorrow
Venture Capital Burgers eaten today can be very expensive
Wisdom from Seneca on What to Read
Seneca advised us not to read too much of the wrong books: “…he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
here is his letter #2