(This article first appeared in Ottawa Business Journal, http://www.obj.ca/Opinion/Bruce-Firestone-5444) Manpacks Co-Founder, Andrew Draper, recently visited the Telfer School of Management to give a lecture in our continuing Magic from a Hat series. Anyone who starts a company with the following tagline (and a favicon that uses a pair of men’s briefs) is bound to be [...]
First Make Your Clients More Successful Aurélien Leftick, Director of Customer Success, and Harley Finkelstein, General Counsel of Ottawa’s fastest growing tech company, Shopify.com, recently gave one of the best University of Ottawa Magic from a Hat lectures yet. You could hear a pin drop as the audience listened to the two young brainiacs from [...]
A Primer on Twitter for Beginners Putting a Value on Your Twitter Account (With edits to March 31, 2012) In 1953, Arthur C. Clark predicted (in his novel Childhood’s End) that by the turn of the 20th Century, long distance would cease to exist. The Browser, Email, IM, My Space, Skype and others (Facebook, Twitter, [...]
Create a Virtual Homebuilder, Please In 2000, in a speech to the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce on Parliament Hill, I tried to get Ottawa-area home builders to create a Virtual Homebuilder but failed; this is a very conservative industry. Here is what I had in mind: -put their available lots and designs online in a [...]
A Charitable Foundation’s Website Revamp So, first of all, what does a web 3.0 website look like and do? Well, it is almost certainly going to incorporate some or all of the functionality that I described in Nine Things that You Can Do for the First Time In Recorded History Because of the Internet (http://www.eqjournalblog.com/?p=1609) [...]
In Recorded History Because of the Internet In an earlier article (http://www.eqjournalblog.com/?p=684), I wrote that there are five things that the Internet can do for business models in the 21st Century that were never possible before (and I have added more since) including: 1. Create custom outputs from standard inputs Unlike Henry Ford who said [...]