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Most of are customers are American. Just the old habits dying hard :-)

Ah! "Corporates" is a term that's often used within European professional service firms and is a holdover from my Dutch corporate banking days. Thanks for the advice, I'll change!

What: Emphatic ( http://emphatic.co ) -- social media as-a-service Why it's cool: gives marketing resources to small businesses who lack the time or expertise

This is great. Now if only I could use an app to make sure that a piece of produce labeled as organic was truly organic. The higher prices associated with organic produce seem like…

It's starting to feel like we're permanently addicted to low interest rates.

>how can they grow up to be well-adjusted adults if they must be supervised at all times Sad answer is they can't. What a society we're building for ourselves.

Main takeaway: humans work best but even an organization like NPR can't use them fully. Very interesting to me as a founder of a social media-as-a-service startup that solves this …

Main takeaway: humans work best but NPR can't use them full-time. Very interesting as I've built a social-media-as-a-service startup based on this premise.[1] -- [1] http://emphati…

My thoughts, in random order: -As long as humans still respond to storytelling -- something we've been doing for as long as we've been around -- branding will have a role. -Nothing…

Where's Carl Icahn when you need him?

Not a fortuneteller but my guess is they're giving up way too early. One of the few mass-market, non-tech companies that actually had a shot in wearables.

Here is a great interview with him in The Paris Review [1]. I love when he says, "It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth…

That's a great analogy and highlights what might be a core issue for Twitter: what it wants to be (an social network with lots of two-sided interaction) vs. what its users perceive…

Do you add relevant hashtags to your jokes/deep thoughts? That would help them to be discovered by others.

>Think about what it means to the HN culture to have a subject that normally would have been flagged out of existence as overtly political suddenly be featured front and center We'…