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[Image Source] What are cheap alternatives? In my case is any airplane flight by Delta or Ryanair. Other examples of such products or services are: winter clothing, sport apparel, laptops, designer and architect services. All of them are high in cost (and can’t be consumed periodically), however you can find cheap alternatives, that for some [...]
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- Tags: budget airlines, Business, Customer Service, Delta, Risk
Some hours ago Gmail was down and everybody started to complain. Now is up and running and people are still complaining. This made me think that how can business and organizations rely on Gmail for business, if it goes down for around 6 hours as it did today. Google today provides 99.99% of uptime for [...]
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- Tags: Business, Entrepreneurship, GMAIL, google, Microsoft, Salesforce
Userfly is a service that permits site owners, record the sessions of their visitors. All you need to put a script in your website and viola. Its a pretty cool and useful tool, because you see how your visitors “behave” in the website, as well what works and what doesn’t. When you sign up they [...]
History Repeats Itself: IBM, Microsoft, Google and …
In: Business
25 Dec 2008We will not have history lesson or fact listing of these three big companies, Wikipedia can serve this purpose. However, I’m here to point something out: Microsoft did it to IBM and Google is doing it (or did it) to Microsoft. Therefore somebody will do it to Google, yes it might be hard to imagine, [...]
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- Tags: apple, bittorrent, google, IBM, Microsoft, Mininova, The Pirate Bay
Throwing Price-Sensitiveness Out WITH the Window
In: Business
22 Nov 2008source Lets say you find a item you like a pair of sun glasses. To be more specific this are Oakley Romeo 2.0, polished frame and titanium lens color, which are worth USD 375. The question, are they worth the price. As you might know Oakley products are quality products, therefore they are worth the [...]
Risk and The [Crystal] Window Metaphor
In: Business
6 Nov 2008Approximately a month ago, I finished reading “Good in a Room“. Like most of those books they use real life cases and stories to keep the reader interested. In one of the stories of a “financial advisor”, the author uses a metaphor of a window being broken several times by some kids playing. Maybe it [...]
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- Tags: Business, Finance, Good in a Room, life, Risk, Risk Mitigation
What is a Trend?
28 Sep 2008Source The other day I was in a lecture about trends. The presenter was talking about what he does in his company, identifying trends and his theories, I came to realized that I didn’t have a concrete definition of a trend. So, turned to Google to find out and got to a point that all [...]
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Life after payment
31 Aug 2008In Tegucigalpa (Honduras) you will find individuals in the stop lights try to make a living by selling you some sort of product or service. In other occasions you will find kids asking for one Lempira* or any kind help. Its common to find kids offering to clean your windshield in exchange for some change. [...]
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- Tags: Business, Customer Service, Honduras
The Basic Free Model
In: Business
2 Aug 2008Recently I had the task of cleaning a bunch of computers with virus, spyware, adware, etc. (at the end everything is malware). For this task, I used these tools AVG Free Antivirus, Spybot Search and Destroy, some Googling and (a new tool in my arsenal) SuperAntiSpyware. In the middle of the mess I ask myself [...]
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- Tags: AVG, business models, free, malware, Spybot S&D, SuperAntiSpyware, Vundo
From Latte to Budget airlines
In: Business
7 Jul 2008Recently I went for 6 days to Poland and took flight on Wizzair (a budget airline). When on the flight and pondering on how they cut costs and make flights that cheap (compared to the regular airlines) I came up with the following analogy: Latte is to regular airlines as regular coffee is to budget [...]
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