December 2011
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People do not buy products. They buy benefits.
– Brian Tracy in The Psychology of Selling.
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Should virtual income be reported to the real-world taxman? China thinks so, in...
– Paying for pixels | The Economist (via ninakix)
Oh The Economist, there’s a stark difference between a sales tax and an income tax. In a virtual world, where it’s completely legal to fabricate Ponzi schemes (= freemium around virtual goods + false scarcity + artificial urgency), I...
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Spoiler Alert: Obama Wins The Election In 2012.
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Quick Thoughts on the Upcoming Zynga IPO
As the world eagerly awaits the latest social web IPO with Zynga, many have focused on the event’s significance as evidence of Facebook’s platform power. However, Zynga’s rapid ascendency marks two milestones that I believe are much more significant.
For one, Zynga has long been the largest Amazon Web Services customer, with an estimated tens of thousands of instances spanning...
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