How not to win points with bloggers
As someone who writes a weblog that gets thousands of visitors a week, I receive an e-mail like this every few days (the names have been deleted out of politeness): === From: [deleted] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:56 AM…
Harvard Business Publishing: Umair Haque - What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t
Too often, we don’t recognize the power of platforms - even in Silicon Valley. Nilofer Merchant, Rubicon’s CEO, writes frequently on the topic and ties it together with strategy. The piece below by Umair Haque, draws an interesting difference between…
Amen, Brother
Every one of us who works in the tech industry has seen this scene play out:
“So and so does xyz so much better than us; how do we catch up?”
That is so not the point. The point is to figure out some other axis on which to win.
And this week at the Red Herring CMO conference, Stephen DiFranco, SVP of AMD said this:
“Don’t envy your competitors; this has done more for hurting AMD than anything Intel could do to us.”
Said well.
Categories: Business Strategies
Tags: AMD , Stephen DiFranco
Permalink
|
Post a comment
|
Post a trackback
del.icio.us |
digg |
newsvine |
google
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Amen, Brother.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://rubiconconsulting.com/mt4/mt-tb.cgi/616