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Do One Thing And Do It Well

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Business, business ideas, Business Practices, entrepreneurs, start-ups

If there’s one thing to remember while coming up with a new business, a new app, a new service, whatever it may be…remember this one thing. Do one thing and do it well. It’s easy to think of all the things you want to have in an app or all the services you may want [...]

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Personal Experiences of Twitter Being Useful

February 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Web Services

By now Twitter is a well-known platform for sending out quick blurbs of info. In the beginning, it was more of a novelty for alpha-geeks who tweeted about being at the grocery store or what they just ate for breakfast. Big deal. However, as time has gone on, Twitter has been a viable tool for [...]

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Why Sprint, Why? (Rate Increases? Really?)

January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Android, Business, Business Practices, iPhone, market share, mobile phones, Rant, Rant, Revenue Models, Samsung, smartphones, Wireless

Sprint shall soon be adding $10/month to users of 3G smart phones. They already did that for the 4G phones and I didn’t care that much as I don’t have a 4G phone. In fact it’s one of the reasons I didn’t go out and snag a Samsung Epic. The phone looks cool as hell [...]

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Being Patient, Being Creative, Being Small

October 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, entrepreneurs, start-ups

Be patient, stay creative, and run your operation with bare-bones resources. It’s a all possible believe it or not! Three topics, seemingly unrelated, yet all quite relevant to any entrepreneur or business. Taken individually, they all make sense. Put them together and you’ve got a great recipe for success. First, let’s discuss creativity. When I [...]

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Do NOT Become Complacent

September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Other

If you want to thrive in this world, you must never rest on your laurels and do NOT become complacent with what you are doing. Complacency can be seen as laziness by some. To others, it’s just a sign that you really don’t want to better yourself or your situation. You can use this advice [...]

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Samsung’s Mobile Strategy

September 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, Business, Business Practices, Deals, mobile phones, Samsung, smartphones, Wireless

Samsung has a great mobile strategy…you’ve got to admit that. While some phone manufacturers are getting all nutty with their carrier exclusivity deals (so freaking’ annoying…come on people!) Samsung is spreading their love all around. Granted, they have their “exclusive” phones but they don’t create just one phone (a la just one iPhone from Apple [...]

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How Laughing At Yourself Helps Business

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, entrepreneurs

Having the ability to laugh at yourself can help you in your business ventures, be it an entrepreneurial venture or any other venture in business no matter what the task is. It’s true. Even the entrepreneur, I know this to be true. Having also applied this while working for other people I know it has [...]

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Putting Android 2.1 on the Samsung Moment

June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, Business, Business Practices, mobile phones, Samsung, smartphones

So there I was feeling irked that I still had to use Android 1.5 on my Samsung Moment. Sprint had said there would be an update a while ago and then the deadline got pushed. Watching new phones come out with 2.0, 2.1…frustrating I tell you. Plus the WWDC was going on today and everyone [...]

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Sprint and T-Mobile

September 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, market share, Mergers/Acquisitions, mobile phones, Technology, Wireless

I’m sure by now you’ve heard the rumor of T-Mobile looking into gobbling up Sprint. It’s certainly an interesting though…number four in the US buying up number three. However, given the additional info that T-Mobile is also wanting to merge with Orange over there in the UK, things become quite a bit more interesting. That [...]

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Palm’s Pre is Great But…

June 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Practices, market share, mobile phones, Rant, smartphones, Technology

By now I’m sure you all know the Palm Pre is finally out on the shelves. It’s been reported to have sold 100,000 units on the first weekend with sellouts at many locations. Not bad…not bad. Mere mortals have finally had a chance to get their hands on them and play with them. I too [...]

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