Blobservations

The two types of mindset

Erik Starck — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:42:44 +0000

Do you have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. Read Carol Dwecks book and find out.

To compete in the world of free

Erik Starck — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:14:55 +0000

Both papers are free. Which one do you choose?

How do you compete when the price for the customer is zero? Or is it really zero? The customer pays in attention and time, the most scarce resource we have

Let go of who you are, become what you want to be

Erik Starck — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:27:33 +0000

Wisdom of the day:

People become who they might be when they let go of who they are.

Better to big fish in a small pond

Erik Starck — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:53:43 +0000

Seth Godin on why large markets often are too big.

clipped from sethgodin.typepad.com

Small markets aren’t as sexy, but they’re actually a better place to start.

Listen and learn

Erik Starck — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:32:27 +0000

How to learn.

“argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.”

Quote of the day

Erik Starck — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:03:37 +0000

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
- Mario Andretti

Via Jan Kallberg.

(Andretti is a famous race car driver. And, yes, I had to look that up.)

Pictures from LIFT07

Erik Starck — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:57:02 +0000

I visited the LIFT-conference in Geneva and took some pictures. Some of them below.

LIFT was a nice place. Everyone ran around with either a camera or a computer over the shoulder, in some cases both. When everyone is blogging about and documenting the conference, the experience is shared and prolonged. How do you get people to blog like that about your company?

Tags: LIFT07.

Distribution, distribution, distribution

Erik Starck — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:11:41 +0000

In the real estate business, three things matter more than anything: 1) location, 2) location and 3) location.

In consumer internet applications these three are: distribution, distribution and distribution. At least according to Reid Hoffmann, the founder of LinkedIn. Listen to him on Venture Voice, one of the best podcasts around.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Erik Starck — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:38:31 +0000

Man, I love this speech.

Read it here.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Steve Jobs is a wise man.

The telecom market finally changing

Erik Starck — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:06:17 +0000

Did you hear the noise last week? Felt the rumble in the ground? It was the sound of a gigantic market finally starting to move in the direction in which it actually has a future.

For those who missed it, the 3G operator 3 launched a series of applications and a new fixed price pricing model for wireless internet usage in the UK, called X-Series. That’s right. They’re tearing down the wall.

This could spark a change for the entire industry, unleashing the creative powers of entrepreneurs and innovators. Add to that how Sun is open sourcing mobile java and Motorola announcing a similar move and the industry might be heading for a perfect storm as the platforms are opened and the walled gardens are torn down.