Connie Chan: Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy. Chinese internet companies have adopted business models that are drastically different than what we see here in the States, especially on mobile. (more)

Paying for content (or other things) for an ongoing periodic (monthly) rate. (more)

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Advertising displayed/played on a Mobile device, whether Mobile-Web or native mobile app.

re China

Tim Leary Personality Test/model based on first 2 of what he'd later frame as Eight Circuit Model Of Consciousness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_Circumplex#History. See MindMirror for details. (more)

see Interpersonal Behavior Circle

I've always found this to be a problem for every SmallCo. (more)

Craig Mod: It took so long for me to get this thing out because I was waffling over membership language. 80% of the time of writing this was spent writing and rewriting and sitting on and then rewriting that membership section up above.* (more)

Brett McKay: How to Be Happy — Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness. One thing that I started doing in the last couple years that has had a particularly strong impact on alleviating my depressive moods and helping me be more consistently positive. (more)

Nir Eyal: The One Physical Fitness App That Hooked Me For Good. Could there be a behavior more antithetical to human nature than exercise? (more)

The risk of Water War-s being fought over Clean Water is rising because of explosive global population growth and widespread complacency. I'm not sure that "InfraStructure" will solve the Side Effect-s of sucking that much water out of the ground.

A Place For Mom, a service that helps family find an appropriate Senior Housing match for their parent, just got $9.5M in VC money. (more)

Christopher Mims: On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay. (more)

Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think. Most of the existing narratives around Fortnite success are overhyped – even if they’re critical to its long-term evolution. (more)

Turns out revenue model design is important. And it’s a product matter first. With the three examples presented here I also want to explore the idea that success in digital is not driven by the adoption of a specific business model, but by the ability to monetise a product or ecosystem in different ways — or, in other words, to implement a multimodal business model. (see 2018-12-07-ChanOutgrowingAdvertisingMultimodalBusinessModelsAsAProductStrategy) (more)

Bridge between MyCalling/Vision and Actionable plans. See Effective Entrepreneur process (2016-03-17-PearsonHowEntrepreneursFigureOutWhatTheyWant).

For Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems. (more)

I'm toying with the idea of writing something on Raising Kids like HowTo Raise Reality Hacker-s. (Background Context: Fractally Generative Pattern Language.) Would probably become a Self Published EBook and then a paid Teaching Sells-like Virtual Community. (more)

John Cutler: Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features. 1. Reframe feature requests as ‘bets’ (Experiment) (more)