Mobile shopping apps and the consumer’s time budget
A study of the free shopping apps in the Android Play store shows that the most popular apps fall into the broad categories that one would reasonably expect without pushing […]
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Simple and smart
I was perusing MasterCard’s merchant support site, located here: MasterCard Merchant Rules. There are a number of documents linked from that site, including “MasterCard Rules”, which is 326 pages long. That […]
New technology products and “promise-driven” sales
USA Today recently published a far-ranging interview with Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell in which he had an excellent take on what makes great sales people and a great sales […]
Employee Data Portability in the Marketplace Economy
I was reading a few related articles yesterday about the challenging employment environment for low and middle-income workers in the United States. The gist is that in the economic recovery […]
Saturday Payments Thoughts: ISIS & Coin
Some thoughts on two bits of interesting consumer payments news from this week… ISIS: The carrier-led mobile payments joint venture ISIS launched nationally this week, approximately 3 years after the […]
There is a lot to love about the Airbnb guest experience
Background I stayed at an Airbnb apartment for the first time this past week during a 3 night business trip to San Francisco. Airbnb has been around for 5 years, […]
Snapchat has our attention
Snapchat is rumored to be raising a new round at a hefty $3.5 bil valuation. 200 mil daily snaps were worth an $800 mil valuation in June, while 350 mil daily snaps are […]
I made my first angel investments using AngelList Syndicates
Yesterday, I made my first two angel investments via AngelList Syndicates. I invested in two companies: Shyp and Estimote. I’m investing with my eyes wide open: Felix Salmon thinks I’m part […]
Mobile commerce isn’t waiting for the “wallet” to arrive
When it comes to mobile commerce, much attention has been paid to the idea that the smartphone will eventually become the wallet. The New York Times is impatiently waiting for this moment […]
Ignore Startup Competition. Mostly*.
Paul Graham’s latest essay contained a very interesting interesting piece of advice in the footnote: We currently advise startups mostly to ignore competitors. We tell them startups are competitive like […]
