The Kickstarter Model

As the new sensation sweeping the nation, Kickstarter is making dreams come true for many entrepreneurs and product designers. Its unique model allows for a passionate community to financially back an idea to its completion. Here’s how Kickstarter describes itself: What’s Kickstarter? Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Everything from films, games, and music to…

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How the Internet Dresses Me

You may or may not know this, but I am a big fan of disruption. Disruption: a product or company that enters an established industry with the intention of turning it on its head.  I love that stuff. And there’s a lot of money to be made if you do it right. One of my least favorite…

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The Current and Future State of Advertising

In my strategic management class we were “discussing” Google and its competitors. I put “discussing” in quotes because it was really the teacher and two other students who had read the case study but none of them understood the points they were trying to make. Class that day was equivalent to pulling teeth for a…

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Surface Pro: A glimpse to the future

  As a late Christmas present I was gifted a Surface Pro 128 GB with a blue touch cover. Plagued with a rather suspicious launch, considered by many to be a ploy to drum up excitement, I was forced to wait for my chance to hand Microsoft my money until yesterday, Sunday February 24th – a…

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Windows Phone 7 and Its Buttons

Ah, the beautiful Windows Phone 7 tiled layout with its simplicity in buttons and ease of use. I can’t lie, Windows Phone 7s are now my jam. All Windows Phone 7 devices come equip with three main buttons: Back Arrow, Windows and Search. (Seen below.) Each has a specific purpose but I’m finding I use…

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