Opportunity for Social Networking, Reputation Management. (more)

Charlie Stross trans-SingularIty book (more)

Open Source Text-Book. An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open Copy Right license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public. Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook (more)

The status of Open Text Book-s. (more)

Ben Thompson: The Amazon Tax (more)

Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) is a New York City public High School that opened in September 2011.[1] It was developed through a unique partnership between the IBM corporation, City University of New York - City Tech, and the New York City Department of Education. The school focuses on postsecondary pathways in the area of Information Technology, helping a diverse group of students enter into this highly competitive field. The grades 9-14 will be a unique hollege (high school and two years of college). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_in_Technology_Early_College_High_School (more)

State University of New York.

Keychain Memory MP3 Player (in 2002) (more)

Bargain-basement College Education? Vo-Tech supplier? Nimble system for Educating Adults? See also State University. (more)

City University Of New York (New York City) (Community College) (more)

*By this coming fall, there will be 60 PTech schools in six states, with 200 different industry partners, offering a range of technical degrees in areas like advanced manufacturing and health information technology. (more)

I need to add some notes here about Mike Caulfield's Wikity, but for now I just wanted this page to see the Twin Pages below!

Eric Ries reviews The Principles Of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald Reinertsen ISBN:1935401009. The use of economic theory to justify decisions is a recurring theme of the book. Its goal is to help us recognize that every artifact of our product development process is really just a proxy variable. Everything: schedules, efficiency, throughput, even quality. In order to trade them off against each other, we have to convert their impact into economic terms. They are all proxies for our real goal, maximizing an economic variable like profit or revenue.Therefore, in order to maximize the true productivity (aka profitability) of our development efforts, we need to understand the relationships between these proxy variables. (more)

Al Ries on Marketing. A slick marketer? A high-powered marketing whiz? A sales whiz known for high-profile Marketing events? I've written 11 books on marketing and spent more than 50 years in the marketing field, and I don't agree with anything Carly Fiorina has done involving marketing strategy at Hewlett Packard. "Synergies," according to Carla, would eventually make HP a leader in all of its businesses. What marketing expert runs around the country talking about synergies? Only CEO-s and Investment Banker-s do that... Marketing is 90 percent strategy and 10 percent execution. With the right name, the right target audience, the right position and the right timing, most marketing programs are bound to work. The difficult part is the 90 percent. The easy part is the 10 percent... Good Business Strategy improves execution. As a matter of fact, good strategy can be defined as a strategy that will allow better, more consistent Execution.

aka Audience Engagement Platform (more)

Marc Andreessen says the Market is the most important factor in Start Up success. In a great market - a market with lots of real potential customers - the market pulls product out of the startup... The product doesn't need to be great; it just has to basically work. And, the market doesn't care how good the team is, as long as the team can produce that viable product... This is the story of search keyword advertising, and Internet auctions, and TCP/IP routers... Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn't matter - you're going to fail... This is the story of videoconferencing, and Work-Flow software, and Micro-Payments... Can't great products sometimes create huge new markets? Absolutely. This is a best case scenario, though... The only thing that matters is getting to Product Market Fit. Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market... Carried a step further, I believe that the life of any startup can be divided into two parts: before product/market fit (call this "BPMF") and after product/market fit ("APMF"). When you are BPMF, focus obsessively on getting to product/market fit. Do whatever is required to get to product/market fit. He reference's Steve Blank's Customer Development thinking. How does this compare to Crossing The Chasm?

Number One Son let his IPhone install an IOS update last night. (more)

The CommodityFuturesModernizationAct of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that officially ensured modernized regulation[1] of financial products known as over-the-counter derivatives. It was signed into law on December 21, 2000 by President Bill Clinton. It clarified the law so that most over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions between "sophisticated parties" would not be regulated as "futures" under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (CEA) or as "securities" under the federal securities laws. Instead, the major dealers of those products (banks and securities firms) would continue to have their dealings in OTC derivatives supervised by their federal regulators under general "safety and soundness" standards. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) desire to have "Functional regulation" of the market was also rejected. Instead, the CFTC would continue to do "entity-based supervision of OTC derivatives dealers."[2] These derivatives, including the Credit Default Swap, are a few of the many causes of the financial crisis of 2008 (Credit Crisis 2008) and the subsequent 2008–2012 global recession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000

Gonzo Journalism wildman (more)

After discussing an Inc Mag article about the use of Minimum Viable Product design in non-StartUp companies, he discusses a different Framing of it. (more)