Earlier this year I had to stop using one of my favorite file sharing services, Drop.io, when they were purchased by Facebook and all of their data was shut down. I’m still waiting for Facebook to make this technology available again. I used to rely on Backtweets to track who was linking to my blog and to my client projects from Twitter. This service was purchased by Twitter and then shut down. I’m still waiting […]
This is a business model framework I adapted for network or platform based businesses from an original IDEO slideshare. The goal is to be able to plot a business model across these buckets that not only creates value for customers – but creates value FROM customers, as well. Some explanation … Costs: here I’ve broken down costs into two camps, stealing from the software engineer Fred Brooks, accidental vs essential. Essential costs (and complexity) are […]
When I was 18 years old, right around the year 2000, I was the lead (and mostly sole) developer for a venture capital funded internet start-up. I was also making what seemed to be an ungodly amount of money for a high school senior – all thanks to the web, and to my incredible good fortune of being thrown into it early in my life. I had my own little shop by the time I […]
