http://sir-james-a-lot.com Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:55:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You see, this is why I love TechCrunch so much. Thanks again to MG Siegler. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/19/want-a-super-cheap-iphone-3g-s-bing-it/ Have a great weekend! http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/06/the-new-iphone-3g-s-with-35-discount/ I totally agree with Seth Godin's latest post on spending your marketing budget wisely and focusing. I think that this is not unlike risk management in general. Investors, hedge funds, mutual funds have to constantly make decisions about their portfolios. Taking the two extreme cases, if you invest all you ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/06/focusing-your-ad-budget/ This is an FYI post. I thought about sharing my way of using RSS for various purposes that regard to staying informed about market trends or specific companies. I have used this simple method while interning at a cash-strapped company. Early-stage startups or just people with ideas may find this ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/06/how-to-conduct-free-marketcompetitive-research-using-pipes/ So innovation is a very hot subject now. Always was, but now more than ever. Companies are trying to innovate. They are so trying to be ahead and do really cool things, but unfortunately a lot of data shows that it's just not working. Companies spend more money on R&D ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/06/on-innovation/ Due to some serious personal issues, and my crazy schedule as a management consultanting intern, I haven't been writing for much longer than I would have liked to (or however you phrase that). So, haven't been able to conduct the proper research or do the amount of thinking I need ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/05/downtime-at-the-round-table/ Unfortunately sometimes you do things first, but you learn later. In this case, I wrote a comment on TechCrunch's MG Siegler's Free to Use. Pay to Play, but now I am realizing that I could do the same in my blog, and employ a trackback. This is just great, because ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/05/does-freemium-solve-startup-cash-flows/ I haven't blogged in about a week. I was away on some boot camp for a new job, so I was not in contact with the outside world on a regular basis. I will probably get to write only once a week, but I'll try to keep up. Still feels ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/05/the-advantages-of-blogging/ This is going to be a very short entry. I just wanted to bring to your attention the amazing podcast by NPR, called Planet Money. It's a daily podcast where they explain, in very simple words, the economy, and what's going on. I have to admit it, I am an ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/05/planet-money/   [caption id="attachment_32" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Protein Folding and PS3"][/caption] There is a project that's been going on at Stanford for quite a while now, trying to figure out protein folding. Protein folding is the process in which proteins assemble themselves before running important functions. When this process doesn't work properly, we get ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/05/fight-alzheimers-with-your-ps3-a-public-service-announcement/ Since Twitter came around, the whole world is crazy about real-time search. A nice article from two days ago on Techcrunch on real-time search benchmarked different services two of them completely new. As Google is trying to move toward searches more synchronized with real-time, it reminds me a little bit of ... http://sir-james-a-lot.com/2009/05/real-time-video-search/