A while back I heard about this interesting startup called “Fiverr“. The concept is simple – people post services they are willing to accomplish in return for $5. Some are silly -“I’ll write your company name on my hand!”…
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The Art of Creating Serendipity or: How to Make Your Own Luck by Being Smart About it.
In business, like in history, no one writes about the losers, they write about the leaders, the winners, those lucky enough to have been at the right place at the right time, met the right person, and then managed to…
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Microsoft’s Missed XBOX Application Development Opportunity
The Tale of the XBOX With over 80 million units sold you could say that the XBOX 360 was a runaway success. You could say that by offering living room apps such as Netflix, HBO Go, ESPN, Facebook and similar,…
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An Exercise in Branding Lower Manhattan – This is LoMa
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with Daria Siegel from the Downtown Alliance. In part we discussed our work at SWARM, though the majority of our time was spend discussing one of the Alliance‘s programs – branded as LaunchLM.…
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The Benefits of Paired Design
Pivotal Labs The team over at Pivotal Labs, a NYC & SF Dev shop, are big proponents of Pair Programming. This is a programming methodology where two developers sit next to each other at two computers that are showing the…
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