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I agree with your thesis that the forces for open standards and unfair business advantage raise the bar for new software ventures, but I believe there are ways...
The secret of how Microsoft stays on top Microsoft has remained successful because of brilliant management of its intellectual property and its ability to spot...
from internet.com daily Monday, December 02, 2002 http://www.internet.com Open Source: The New Security Problem Child? Move over Microsoft, there's a new...
Fellow product managers (and long time reader), After 3-months on the job with a dotcom, I am discovering more and more questionable business practices,...
My advice (since you asked :-) 1) Talk to a lawyer (several actually). All reputable lawyers give you an hour free to determine if you, and they, want to have...
From quick review, looks like the service is designed to benefit the enterprise's recruiting department and hiring managers. What about the implications for...
Frank Lingua, president and CEO of Dissembling Associates, is the nation's leading purveyor of buzzwords, catch phrases and cliches for people too busy to...
I'll start by posing the question why did eBay beat Yahoo! auctions? What strategies could Yahoo! have undertaken to gain momentum and compete with eBay? My...
... While this is may not the answer you're looking for, I think it is worth noting that eBay did not beat Yahoo Auctions or, more importantly, Rakuten in...
We had to address the same issue with GolfWeb (in 1995) re: golf courses. Because of the geographical nature of golf courses (real estate, hotels, etc.) it is...
I think a modified version of Metcalf's law is needed, perhaps a curve where the X-axis is % of coverage instead on number of connections. Then you would want...
It does seem paradoxical. The largest software companies preach open standards, and predict that adherence to them will unleash new rounds of innovation in the...
Hello, ... I think that enterprise software companies aren't being funded today because a) the market is maturing, but also b) enterprises aren't willing to...
Kishore, Did you get any responses to this? Saeed ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful....
Metcalfe's law is, in a sense, incomplete in this case. 3 points to make. 1. The law says that for each marginal % increase in the size of the network, the...
4th December 2002 Hi Saeed, You don't miss anything do you? I cheered up because the complete absence of response seemed to suggest that this is totally...
There is a very important difference for products generally and product that are geographically constrained. For a database of books, having 85% might be...
... The devil is in the details. In this example, it depends on which 2 you leave off. If they are the two most popular, then definitely the database is...
There are 3 available on the Forbes website. The email below the description highlights the one by Hagel and his upcoming chat session. The McKinsey...
My actual experience in building and managing the golf course database for 4 years showed what Saeed suggests below not to be true. People primarily look for...
One method I might use to guage the "tipping point" value to both the buyers and sellers in each market would be to do some interviews with both buyers and...
Ha ha ha! Well, why not? Web applications cannot be generalized, you really have to do them to figure out what to do! In fact, I do not believe in product...
So..."if you build it they will come"? Saeed ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable....
Cynthia wrote: In fact, I do not believe in product specs, product requirements, any kind of "document" anymore. Rather, build a prototype and use that for ...
Team The basic minimum set of requirements to which Scott refers should also include a viable plan to make money in whatever timescale the company can afford. ...