I have been wracking my head trying to write a post for my HBS blog about the macropocalypse. There's so much to say.For now, I will say this: the Fed bailing out AIG is kind of jaw-dropping as a total evisceration of the bedrock of the financial system - and [...]

Quick note from Seedcamp. I have a really, really feeling that today will be really bad. I'm pretty certain that yesterday was by no means the culmination of the collapse. If AIG goes down, we are in serious trouble of a systemic and catastrophic breakdown and unwinding.[...]

Scott has a point, but I think that Facebook isn't exactly "normal" in terms of expectations, influence, or liquidity options, the secondary markets involved in what's "normal" aren't often made relatively open, the shares traded in them don't go at a >100% discount, and my guess (though the info is [...]

Sales 2.0 is a new approach to B2B sales. Quite simply, the Sales 2.0 approach provides sales organizations:Increased proximity to prospectsThe ability to replicate and standardize selling best practicesSuperior visibility into sales rep effectivenessThe result is greater intimacy with your prospects/ repeat customers. However the process in effect actually works [...]

Sales 2.0 is a new approach to B2B sales. Quite simply, the Sales 2.0 approach provides sales organizations:Increased proximity to prospectsThe ability to replicate and standardize selling best practicesSuperior visibility into sales rep effectivenessThe result is greater intimacy with your prospects/ repeat customers. However the process in effect actually works [...]

A nice example of how to get it wrong.Hey, look, I used an example that's not Google...![...]

Q: Can better advertising save Microsoft from strategic irrelevance?A: aahahaha."...I suspect what Microsoft would most like to instill in people's minds is they are innovators and leaders."Windows? I kiss you!!!!!@1111The epic, epic lulz.[...]

"Umair is fighting the good fight, taking the capitalist investor at his own evaluation, that he creates value by doing good.The fact is, the capitalist is just an exploiter making his profit any way he can, whether he does good or ill.I believe Umair when he says there are opportunities [...]

So, I get a lot of emails these days (thanks :) . Many of them start with (I kid you not) "I love what you write!! I don't usually agree, but..."OK. Guys, let me try and explain the point of bubblegen very, very simply. I think a lot. Then I [...]

Why is blogging a pain? Here's an example.Fred recently wrote a post responding to the latest post at my HBS blog. Today, the highest ranked comment on Fred's discussion is by a guy who clearly hasn't read bubblegen much (ie, I didn't start writing about peer production yesterday, but before [...]

So I think many of you are new to bubblegen, and my HBS blog. Some of you are understandably a little bit skeptical. Who is this guy, and what the £^%*$! is he talking about?Here's what we've been discussing with investors, startups, and boardrooms for the last few years.In 2004-5, [...]

"...in the ten days since this post, we can see business-as-usual continues merrily on its wayexcept as a "amrketing concept", i think "edge economy" as espoused by umai haque is a paper tiger, with zero practical valueam i wrong?"Ummm....how can I put this. In the ten days since this post, [...]

Here's a textbook example of how not to think strategically.Duncan looks at the numbers and concludes Friendfeed and Twitter are subsitutes. It should be pretty obvious - if you think about the dynamics - that they're complements.Strategy isn't spreadsheets - and it sure ain't disconnected usage numbers.The real point is: [...]

Mark Cuban bans blogs. Lulz. So did China, Iran, and the army. And we know how well that went.So is this just noise?Actually, it's like an unwritten Kafka novel about authoritarianism: when Wal-Mart is more 2.0 than a self-proclaimed revolutionary who keeps investing in industrial value chains (hi, HDnet), no [...]

Perhaps the biggest problem across the economy is that our thinking is permeated by yesterday's stale assumptions.There's a conference at LBS today - called "Monetizing Social Networks".Uggh.These poor kids. Most MBAs come to B-school wanting to do cool things - and they get crushed into thinking business is about "product" [...]

Hi folks, this week at my HBS blog we're doing something a bit different. I haven't discussed next-gen strategy in depth for quite a while. So that's what we're doing this week - with a focus on why it seems that, no matter how hard everyone else fights them, the [...]

Let me ask a question. Is SXSW fiddling while Rome burns? We've been discussing Zuck, Sarah Lacy, Facebook's privacy controls, etc. But perhaps we don't have the luxury of that self-indulgence. Why not? Because the global economy is about to get hammered. The signals the economy is sending are, to [...]