Tag Archives: Disappointment

Tesla And Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

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For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and...
    






Terri Schiavo Implicitly Affirms Life Support for Jahi McMath

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The 1990s and 2000’s were a time when the Terri Schiavo case got a lot of media publicity. Both sides were armed for and against euthanasia. The topic of mercy killing is not easy to resolve...
    






A Word Of Caution For The Boosters Of Global Entrepreneurship

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Palestinian VC Saed Nashef keeps telling people that building a startup ecosystem is a decades-long process. Why are so few people listening? If you’re writing a story about startups in Palestine,...
    






UPS FedEx Delayed

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The anger and chagrin are palpable. After UPS and FedEx were unable to deliver a fraction of the packages this Christmas, the vexed clientele took to Twitter and Facebook to vent their spleen at the...
    






The Pros Pick Two Offbeat Cleantech Stocks for 2014

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Among the dozen stocks picked by my panel of professional green money managers for 2014, most followed three themes: Solar stocks, IT stocks, and income stocks.  Two didn’t, and they are included...
    






Rap Genius And The Problem With The Venture Capital Fueled Growth Hack

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Almost entirely missing from the discussion of RapGenius‘ punishment by Google for bone-headed SEO practices is the fact that RapGenius is not in fact a “lyrics site” like the ones it is competing...
    






The Best Video Games Of 2013

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2013 was a really great year for video games. Maybe not the best year of all time, but a year packed with ambitious, surprising new titles. It was also a year of new benchmarks, with games like ...
    






Apple To Go Large In 2014 With iPhone 6 In May And iPad Max in October

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Now that the ink is drying on Apple's deal with China Mobile, supply chain rumors are emerging about Apple’s next significant product releases. Digitimes reports that according to “sources from the...
    






The Top Video Games Of 2014

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2014 is the first real year of what can now safely be referred to as “current-gen” video games. The era of the Xbox 360 and PS3 is drawing to a close and a new epoch is beginning. Even the Wii U...