Biologická Polívka

The Death Trap : A VC

We as a industry are obsessed with death. And its a trap that clouds your thinking. Facebook did not kill MySpace, YouTube did not kill Hulu, Google did not kill eBay, Pownce did not kill Twitter, and I could go on and on and on.

Yes, like cars and soft drinks, web services compete with each other for customers/users. But there are almost a billion internet users globally these days. And you can build a very nice business serving millions or ideally tens of millions of users.

So I’d like to suggest that we stop focusing on who is going to kill whom and instead think about market share, business model, sustainability, and profitability which are the measures that people in most businesses tend to focus on.

The Death Trap : A VC

The logo for A.G. Low Construction

The logo for A.G. Low Construction is the best one I’ve seen in awhile.

Nice work by design student Rebecca Low, who I’m assuming is related to the A.G. Low in question. (via monoscope)

The logo for A.G. Low Construction is the best one I’ve (kottke.org)

Lego Stephen Hawking (kottke.org)

Lego Stephen Hawking (kottke.org)

200 Nipples | Killer Limited Edition Tees from $1 – $100.

Velmi zajímavý zp?sob jak prodávat design:

The Deal

Each limited edition numbered shirt is screened onto the size and cut specified by the buyer. The number in the series is printed on the back, just below the neck. This number determines the price of the shirt. Shirt #1 goes for $1, #35 is $35, the example above would be $100, and so on. Once we’ve printed the full run of a design, the prepped screen is destroyed; it will never be reproduced. Our shirts are printed onto the finest pre-shrunk, 30 single, 100% cotton blanks available. They’re super soft, won’t fall apart in the wash (I’m looking at you, Cafe Press) and they have a “tagless” printed tag for comfort.

200 Nipples | Killer Limited Edition Tees from $1 – $100.

Are you a barker or an attractor?: Church of the Customer Blog

Barking as a customer acquisition strategy is a relative affair, whether spamming bloggers with press releases, peppering a neighborhood with door hangers , dressing up a mascot to stand on a street corner, or pimping a new website on Twitter. Real marketing is designing elements into a business that will get the attention of customers so you don’t have to yell.

Are you a barker or an attractor?: Church of the Customer Blog

Seth’s Blog: If you don’t want to get email

If it’s important enough for you to send to me, it may be important enough for me to write back.

I know it’s horribly expensive and inconvenient to work your way through the replies, but aren’t the replies exactly what you need to see? What an opportunity.

Here’s what you do:

1. Send the email to your permission list, an announcement that’s anticipated, personal and relevant.

2. Set up a “reply to” that’s a different address.

3. In the email, at the bottom, give people a web address where they can go to give feedback, or give them an email they can write to that will be read by a real person.

4. If they hit reply, the replyto will automatically send the note to the right person.

Seth’s Blog: If you don’t want to get email

Seth’s Blog: The Long Tail and the Dip

The most common misconception about Long Tail thinking is that if you don’t succeed at pocket 1, don’t worry, because the tail will take care of your product and you’ll just end up in #2. That’s not true. #2 isn’t a consolation prize for mass market losers. Mass market losers are still losers. In order to become a mass market star you make choices about features and pricing and quality–and if you lose that game, there’s no reason to believe that those choices are going to pay off for a different market.

Seth’s Blog: The Long Tail and the Dip

This Week’s Crazy Jobs | Business Pundit

This week’s job ad freakshow includes monsters, party princesses, mob-resistant bankers, and dog bathers.

This Week’s Crazy Jobs | Business Pundit.

Jak by vypadal twitter timelie pri utoku zombie?

Vid?li jste film Já, legenda? Pokud ano nyní se m?žete podivat na podobné události která v p?íb?hu probíhali p?i nakažení a obeju prvních zombie. Jen jak by je zachytili uživatelé twitteru.

(nad tím že v americe o?ividn? má každý ve skl?pe skladišt? zbraní se net?eba zmo?ovat, jen by to n?které v timeline mohlo zasko?it )

Zdroj: http://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/2008/07/08/twitter-timeline-during-zombie-attack-pic/

Tagy: obrazek, twitter, zombie

mBank

Tak jsem se stal klientem mBank.

Prvotni informace

Do zacatku, z refrenci a webovek jsem ziskla celkem hodne informaci i tech uz otvrzenych praxi. Zpetne konstatuji ze je daleko lepsi si pokecat s uzivatelem mBank nez koukaz na jejich mForum atd.

Hurá na pobo?ku

No pobocku jsem sel na Vinohradskou. Prisel jsem chvilku jsem tam postal (neb tam byl nejaky naval). Aspon jsem si ozkousel novou mptrojku. Nasledne si me prevzala jedna pani u stolku, celkem rychle sme to vyridily jen jsem mel absolutni pocit toho ze vlastne tem produktum mBank moc nerozumi, chvilemi jsem vypadal ze vic informaci mam ja . Podle toho jak jsem ji koukal p?ez rameno je založení ú?tu rutina, která je ani moc nebaví a ani to neni nic sloziteho, vlastne delaji to same co byste delali pres internet. Takže jedine + je že si nemusíte dávat sraz s kurýrem.

Internet Banking

Ta grafika… uff. I ja umim delat hezci veci ktere maji podobne funkce. Prvni vec co jsem hledal bylo nejaky obecny nastaveni. Treba limit?, hesel a takové. A já to tam ani po p?l hodine nenasel, 50% napovedy se nezobrazuje kvuli vadnym odkazum (polske odkazy na cz verzi), no proste co vam budu povidat. A to mi rikali ze to je krasne jednoduche a snadne. Ano ale jednoduche tak ze tam vetsinu funkci nemate :-/

Posilat penize jsem jeste nezousel, s pohyby penez si pockam na kartu. Ale budu muset nekde z nekoho vydolovat jak to maji s placenim v zahranici zda jedou rovnou z EUR nebo zda se to prepocitava z CZK.

Prozatimni pocity

Maj to sice zadarmo, kartu kterou se da platit na internetu ale jejich hlavni deviza IB se zrovna moc nepredvedla. V jejich prospech doufam ze to jeste HODNE vylepsi.

Dalsi zhodnoceni dodam az dorazi karta a ja zjistim jak je to s jejim pouzivanim na internetu atd.

Tagy: banky, mbank, Zkušenosti