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By Tony Greenberg and friends POST YOURS HERE
A long time ago in a business not so far away, a king sat considering his fate. The weather had been poor during the last growing season, the peasants were getting restless, and neighboring kingdoms were either disappearing into the abyss or rais
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“Wine is bottled poetry.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Have you ever had a really good wine? How about a really expensive one? How about a wine with really high ratings from famous wine critics? Were all three the same bottle of wine?
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by Doug Frost, Master of Wine / Master Sommelier, friend and partner
Points are Pointless
The 2009 Bordeaux futures campaign has just ended: the longest and most drawn-out in history. Prices, to put it mildly, have never been higher. Today the last estate released its prices for its 2009 w
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"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson
In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it was set up to
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It may be the most overused, least appreciated, most haphazardly defined word in modern life. Yet, it makes online commerce possible, discussion groups debatable and eBay profitable.
Simultaneously, its abuse leads to urgent letters from Nigerian depositories, fuels goofball conspiracy theories,
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Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
By Tony Greenberg, Alex Veytsel & Eric Pulier
Excerpts from a presentation at the H+ Conference, Harvard University
June 13, 2010
Download the PowerPoint deck here /Click through web preso here
One man, one army. So we're going to
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“My supervisor will just tell you the same thing”
Or, Who Needs MacMall In an Apple Store World?
By Tony Greenberg
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
I’m a tough customer. I admit it. Takes one to know one. I’m a loud shocki
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Scrubbing Our Lives Clean
From Dr. Bronner's to Pressure Cookers
By Tony Greenberg
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.” - Sappho
Not long ago, I was taking a shower in a beautiful woman’s home. A close beautiful woman’s home. For those of you
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Gratitude: The Smuggest Sentiment or the World's Second Most Selfish Act?
By Tony Greenberg
“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We live in an era of compulsory gratefulness. Ministers s
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
Every week it seems like we see more stories of big companies paying big bucks to scoop up little firms with interesting technologies. And then the big companies kill,
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By Tony Greenberg and friends POST YOURS HERE
A long time ago in a business not so far away, a king sat considering his fate. The weather had been poor during the last growing season, the peasants were getting restless, and neighboring kingdoms were either disappearing into the abyss or raising invasion armies that he couldn’t match. The King sat wistfully wondering what to do when the guards announced a visitor – a traveling Jester.
“Greetings, my King,” said the Jester. “I bring you notions, potions, and, most importantly . . . Read More
July 21, 2010
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For more information, go to http://www.trustyourtongue.com
“Wine is bottled poetry.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Have you ever had a really good wine? How about a really expensive one? How about a wine with really high ratings from famous wine critics? Were all three the same bottle of wine? Maybe that expensive and/or highly rated bottle of wine wasn’t really that good for that night, given what you spent and given what you expected. But maybe you were afraid to admit it, fearing you'd only expose your ignorance. After all, everyon . . . Read More
July 3, 2010
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by Doug Frost, Master of Wine / Master Sommelier, friend and partner
Points are Pointless
The 2009 Bordeaux futures campaign has just ended: the longest and most drawn-out in history. Prices, to put it mildly, have never been higher. Today the last estate released its prices for its 2009 wines: Ausone is available for more than a thousand dollars a bottle. But act now! This is only the first tranche (or release); subsequent tranches may be higher still.
Oh, and one other note, that Ausone price applies only to importers. You'll hav . . . Read More
July 2, 2010
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"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson
In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it was set up to close a deal. Unfortunately for IT buyers, there really weren’t any better alternatives.
And the process wasn’t much better for the sellers either. Vendors were burdened with trying to provide excess requirements for the least cost, regardles . . . Read More
July 2, 2010
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It may be the most overused, least appreciated, most haphazardly defined word in modern life. Yet, it makes online commerce possible, discussion groups debatable and eBay profitable.
Simultaneously, its abuse leads to urgent letters from Nigerian depositories, fuels goofball conspiracy theories, enables a menagerie of computer viruses, and funnels millions of hapless targets into the clutches of phishers and frauds.
“IT” is trust. We no longer know what it means. As we stumbled into a fully digital, fully connected age, we forgot to f . . . Read More
June 25, 2010
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Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
By Tony Greenberg, Alex Veytsel & Eric Pulier
Excerpts from a presentation at the H+ Conference, Harvard University
June 13, 2010
Download the PowerPoint deck here /Click through web preso here
One man, one army. So we're going to count down what we do. I’m honored to be hanging out here with (Rob) Tercek, (Alex) Lightman and a bunch of other buddies. When Alex said, “Come to Harvard,” I said, “I better bring some backup.” I called some brilliant guys that I know.
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June 22, 2010
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“My supervisor will just tell you the same thing”
Or, Who Needs MacMall In an Apple Store World?
By Tony Greenberg
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
I’m a tough customer. I admit it. Takes one to know one. I’m a loud shocking dose of reality for companies that sell me something. I expect too much from them. I’ve given them my money for, and put my trust in; their products or services, and I expect them to value that accordingly. I can be a firm’s greatest ally or i . . . Read More
June 14, 2010
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Scrubbing Our Lives Clean
From Dr. Bronner's to Pressure Cookers
By Tony Greenberg
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.” - Sappho
Not long ago, I was taking a shower in a beautiful woman’s home. A close beautiful woman’s home. For those of you who know of my existence, this revelation is, I know, shocking. Actually, even being there was a bit stressful, given that this Santa Monica-bound beach hound travels to New York more often than to Hollywood.
But to the point, as I groggily pee . . . Read More
June 2, 2010
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Gratitude: The Smuggest Sentiment or the World's Second Most Selfish Act?
By Tony Greenberg
“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We live in an era of compulsory gratefulness. Ministers scold us to thank God for all His blessings. New Age gurus demand an “attitude of gratitude.” We’re told we must give thanks for the slightest of gifts. It’s all about being grateful, if we want to create a life lived humbly yet well.
Well, . . . Read More
June 2, 2010
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
Every week it seems like we see more stories of big companies paying big bucks to scoop up little firms with interesting technologies. And then the big companies kill, in one fashion or another, what they just bought, seemingly squandering whatever initially made the acquisition so attractive. What’s this all about? How is it that big companies can’t help killing the things they love? An injection of entre . . . Read More
June 2, 2010
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I speed through life building relationships, businesses and finding wonderful and horrible people. The premise of this rant is to expose the wonderful and horrible that I encounter daily, as well as wax poetic on the emerging syzygy of humans, business and the world.