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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Why Google Should Buy OfferPal

Offerpal reports itself to be the leading platform for the monetization of social networks.  Their key service is the ability to give points to people who are willing to participate in research or advertising.  The participants then use these points to buy software, games...

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Does Cisco Have its Head in the Clouds

Many pundits are railing about Cisco’s move into the server market because the company’s current gross margins are 10-20% less in the server market than in their core router market. What these critics miss is that the evolution of computing is to create corporate...

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Google Earth and The Demand Lens

My older brother Skip is a doctor who started and runs a substance abuse clinic in Rhode Island.  His business is booming!  But if you are not in the cheap food business, pawn brokerage, bankruptcy law, or other counter-cyclical activities you and your firm...

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A Tale of Two Economies: How to regain trust in our markets…

Our economy relies equally on rational economic transactions and mutually felt trust in the trustworthiness of the system.  In this current economic downturn there have been many parallels made to the New Deal and its Keynesian simulative effect which was the palliative for social...

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