The App and Play stores have turned out to be exceptionally poor places to run a software product business for most developers. They’re great distribution channels for service makers, like Facebook or Lyft or Basecamp, but they’re terrible places to try to make a living (or better) selling software products. Harsh words from the Basecamp people. But not untrue. Don’t base your business on a paid app — Medium
Arora encouraged him to spend aggressively to solve the problem, including a $350 million acquisition. That helped Snapdeal draw 10 million customers for its digital wallet within 33 days of launch, though it remains in third place in India, behind Amazon and rival Flipkart. “When your largest shareholder and key strategic partner says ‘Go for it,’ that gives you a great sense of confidence,” Bahl said. “I don’t think this would’ve been possible without the […]
Yes, it’s possible that even in a different system, Karl still might not have lived a day longer, but had he had been with me, where I wanted him, I wouldn’t be sitting here, living with the nearly incapacitating anguish of a question that has no answer. This is absolutely heartbreaking and difficult to read, and at the same time incredibly important to not ignore. A Baby Dies at Day Care, and a Mother Asks […]
We need to look at fresh ideas,” said Carson. “I don’t have any problem with the Palestinians having a state, but does it need to be within the confines of Israeli territory? Is that necessary, or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt? This is incredible from every possible angle. This is an American presidential candidate. Ben Carson’s “fresh” foreign policy: Just “sort of slip” Palestinians down to Egypt – Salon.com
If you grew up in a small town, and went to Stanford, and then got a job in tech in the South Bay, then you could reach your 30s and be running a large company or part of one, and never in your life have walked past a shop selling something wonderful that you never knew existed. Even in San Francisco that would be pretty easy. That is, living here after living in London, it’s […]
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The Breakfast Machine. Exactly what it sounds like. (via The Breakfast Machine – YouTube) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Wall Street tends to understand the transactional much better than deep customer relationships Wall Street Sours on Whole Foods Market – The New York Times
The underlying cause of this debt glut is the $12tn of free or cheap money created by central banks since 2009, combined with near-zero interest rates. When the real price of money is close to zero, people borrow and worry about the consequences later. It’s different this time, right? Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun? | Comment is free | The Guardian
The slide that most app developers seem not to have understood. (via Activate Tech and Media Outlook 2016)
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