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Hollywood controls the distribution pipeline (Theater,TV,DVD,etc) and the timing of each (the release). Hollywood advertises each to build up demand. So you can also beat Hollywood…

You could model after the pharmaceutical companies where the drug gets a waiting period before generics can compete. Use 12 months, Require downloadable files be zipped with a head…

I noticed the same thing, though: maps and local services, public affairs, and business operations sound like departments best lead one on one. I would assume the departments in th…

I search forums for DIY home projects and have found I need at least 10 responses to my question before I can arrive at a result I feel comfortable with. Going back over the respon…

How about a display ad presenter that a user places at the bottom of their blog or their posterous. It doesn't pop up or jump around but needs to be dragged up as if you are resizi…

I always thought that the best way to avoid losing a lot of money is to diversify and avoid leverage. Derivatives is leverage big time, it's speculation, not investing, you can los…

It's just another form of stock options except cash always sounds better if the stock is going nowhere or your company doesn't have any stock to give. It's also an approximate 10% …

Plotted against years in business would give me a measure of where I am based upon my experience.

Maybe requiring registering and stress testing of HFTs over a specific volume is a solution. Or as a cost of registering a HFT is a requirement to "make the market" whether the HFT…

Maybe Microsoft will have to redesign both the operating system and the PC architecture so that the PC still does the stuff of old on one half and competes with the cloud on the ot…

Doesn't F3 in Firefox do the same thing? Then F3 for next instance, etc.

Seems like there are a lot of directions these guys could go if the original direction doesn't take off. Might try downloadable-auto updated scrape books. Also know of a few compan…

It could also be a hedge position by someone who sees the trade as insurance on an existing portfolio and not a outright bet.

I think of RAA when I think of project management. R=Responsibility A=Authority A=Accountability Make sure the team member understands what his Responsibility on the project is. Ma…

When I played American Army a while back I was placed in jail for a cool down period when I hit one of my own team mates. Seems like Google ought to do the same thing, sweep the ac…

I would think businesses could use the "public circles" for event marketing and give Google an entry into display marketing.

Here is a good follow up article about Myspace. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_27/b42350539... Article gives a good overview of the type of corner both Facebook an…

Business really seems to like Facebook. More and more I see "check us out on our Facebook page". I want to see how Google addresses the display ad advantage Facebook presently has.…

Companies that can maintain relatively high margins operate in niche markets. Groupon is anything but. I think what will be Groupon's downfall however will be against someone who c…

I break the goal into doable tasks and challenge myself towards the accomplishment of each task. Each task has a timeline so I can pace myself. I then know when in the future I an …

I don't know if it's the male/female thing. I think it is a "amount of discussion" thing. Women discuss the topic more without being positional so a larger quorum is reached. The m…

For a senior coder, comments may feel redundant but for the junior coder, it helps. If they can't comment the program from beginning to end, they haven't thought the logic through …

Those are good questions if I was sitting next to one in a bar and starting up a conversation maybe but since most of the questions can be answered on the VC's web site (including …

I am going to get slammed for this but I really doubt if they care. 7.84M shares was the IPO makes a total of 94.5M shares outstanding. That's less than 10% outstanding if I am rea…