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Freemium – Have we lost our way?

by Ian Smith | Sep 6, 2009 | Compelling Stories, Management Help, start ups, Strategy

This post is inspired by a recent  Jason Fried of 37 Signals post. It seems astonishing to me the amount of stuff that we now have at our finger tips that’s free – software tools, platforms, white papers, blog entries, Wikipedia, email, images,...

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If it’s good enough for us: Executives spin off internal IT efforts into viable businesses ow.ly/Q7WT50uXrC0 via @WSJ Marketing an internal software service to the outside needs its own strategic plan!

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Eleven votes seths.blog/2019/06/e…

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Great week in Albuquerque at the National Senior Games - ran seasons best M60 - 400m - 59.74 - 4th in the final - ranked 6th in the world rankings - the US is loaded at this event! @SeniorGames1

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11:44 am · June 19, 2019
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Semiconductor Supply Chain - Take a look at @Mycronic solutions - RT @mrsi_systems: Challenges and Solutions for Bonding Ultra-Small Ceramic End-Terminated Capacitors mrsisystems.com/2019… pic.twitter.com/uWos…

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10:36 am · June 18, 2019
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RT @DanielPink: How to lead more effectively, via @Neil_Irwin: "One of the strongest predictors of success for middle managers was that they held frequent one-on-one meetings with the people who reported directly to them.” nyti.ms/2WHuJ6v

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10:32 am · June 18, 2019
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China’s Huawei expects a $30 billion dent in revenue—for the first time quantifying the potential impact of the U.S. blacklisting wsj.com/articles/u-s… via @WSJ - Interesting 16% of the $70 billion procurement is sourced from the US - that's a big hit to US businesses

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Salesforce’s all-stock deal, with an enterprise value of $15.7 billion, is aimed at expanding the business-software firm’s digital offerings. wsj.com/articles/sal… via @WSJ - Now strategically I get it but a price tag of 39 times sales! (Even SF is only at 7 times sales value)

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Investors have given an unenthusiastic welcome to Infineon’s $10 billion acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor. Here’s why. wsj.com/articles/thi… via @WSJ

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Getting into shape nicely for the National Senior Games @SeniorGames1 in 2 weeks 60.78 400m M60 #3 in US rankings - & 27.77 200m at todays Battle Road track meet

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Seth on culture - Of course they’re wrong seths.blog/2019/06/o… my 2 cents - culture is a corollary of behavior-eg if leadership insist on meetings starting on time and trapping actions - that is the culture

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Globalization’s next chapter bit.ly/2Xl6HPM via @McKinsey_MGI - "The final big change in globalization increasingly, is regionalization. Trade within regions like the EU-28 or the Asia–Pacific region is growing much faster than the long-haul global trade"

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