http://savemefrombschool.com just your average MBA Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:17:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's fitting, I think, that my final entry on this blog is about how I am experimenting with a paid email newsletter. Perhaps business school had more of an effect than I thought. For me, starting a blog was an experiment to see if anyone "out there" would be interested in ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/07/why-i-am-switching-to-a-paid-email-newsletter/ First of all, I'm moving my blog. I oscillated quite a bit - right when I'm starting to get the right Google juice I give up?  Yes.  I have always been a huge fan of clean slates - how else are you supposed to know if you can build yourself ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/06/hello-b-school-graduation/ All of the commentary around the recent Facebook announcements from their f8 conference has been really fascinating (Senators care?), specifically the relationship between the new FB and privacy. It just seems to me that FB is under absolutely no obligation to provide any sort of privacy protection to its users.  ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/04/privacy-is-expensive/ Seems to me the tech startup world and the music business have more in common than either would probably like to admit. They are hit-driven businesses. Like record companies, venture capitalists invest in 10 companies hoping for one huge hit. I’m not sure what the numbers are in the ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/03/why-blippy-will-be-huge-popularity-modeling-consumer-tech-and-the-music-business/ A friend with a particular gift for web wisdom once told me "there are only two ways people will find your site: through Google, or because someone tells them about it." I subscribe to this assertion (of course "someone" includes aggregation sites and other trusted link collectors) and also believe ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/03/lings-cars-subtle-brilliance-and-a-lesson-for-design-elitists/ First-mover advantage (FMA, not to be confused with FML) is one of those things they teach you in business school as *doctrine*. Be first, or don't bother. This leads to much malaise when, upon coming up with, say, a brilliant idea for a mobile coupon business, hopes and dreams are ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/02/is-first-mover-advantage-a-myth-with-graphs/ If you really love something, you should want to know everything about it, right? I am currently in an ongoing love affair with the internets. This, mixed with the liberal dispensing of tech-related kool-aid that goes on at MIT, has provided enough of an impetus for me to begin learning how ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/02/pain-or-why-learning-to-code-is-like-learning-chinese/ I believe the J-term (short for January term) might be the best thing to happen to an academic calendar since President's Day. I never had one in undergrad (silly quarter system) so I was unable to appreciate that four weeks of "do-a-small-project" at the beginning of the year is a most ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2010/01/january-in-silicon-valley/ To all you crowdsourcing-lovers out there who see the web as a way to subvert impenetrable elite networks and democratize industries and systems, congratulations, you have a new convert. (This girl.) I was totally fascinated by the DARPA red balloon challenge earlier this month, and obviously pumped to see an MIT ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2009/12/darpa-red-balloon-challenge-and-the-diminishing-power-of-elite-networks/ I am betting aggressively on the coming ubiquity of portable projection devices. Not just because they’re cool. But because, as our lives become more digital, content will need to get out from the confines of a screen. First, some background: I took this class last semester at the MIT Media Lab called “Social ... http://savemefrombschool.com/2009/10/screens-everywhere-the-coming-microprojector-revolution/