For years, one of my goals has been to help create one of the 100 most popular web properties. Since last August I have been privileged to spend much of my consulting time working for a client named FamilyLink, the world’s largest family-related social network. FamilyLink operates the We’re Related Facebook application, which is the [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Business Management, Innovation, Viral Marketing, Web Analytics, e-Business | 1 Comment »
Many of us who have been stuck in rush hour traffic have wondered when auto makers will finally develop a flying car that can drive on the roads and fly just above the roads. We’ve seen this on television shows such as the Jetsons, and movies such as Star Wars, but I’ll bet most of [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
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I recently finished Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath and thoroughly enjoyed this book. One of my favorite portions described the “Mother Teresa Principle”. One of this saintly woman’s famous teachings was, ”If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
Made to Stick talks [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, Charity, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Giving Back, Global Orphan Crisis, Innovation, Microlending, Social Enterprise, e-Business | 5 Comments »
A little over a year ago Facebook empowered web developers to create applications that could run on the Facebook platform. This simple decision has propelled Facebook to become one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Now, Facebook is expanding that vision and hopes to allow web developers to use their platform to develop [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Innovation, Internet Marketing, Online Communities, Open Source, Social Networking, e-Business | No Comments »
I just watch an online video clip of a speech given by Paul Collier, an economist and the author of “The Bottom Billion”. Paul advocates four steps that we can take to help the one billion people who are trapped in poor or failing countries. He calls this group the “bottom billion” and [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Giving Back, Global Orphan Crisis, Innovation, Microlending, Poverty | 1 Comment »
Bill Gross is the founder of the IdeaLab business incubator, with sales exceeding $435 million. It is one only tech incubator that survived the dotcom crash in its original form. IdeaLab has built many different ventures, such as:
· GoTo/Overture (became Yahoo Search Marketing) – paid inclusion search engine that was renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing after [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Giving Back, Innovation, Leadership, Social Enterprise, Web Content, e-Business | No Comments »
In Built to Last, the authors said:
In examining the history of visionary companies we were struck by how often they made some of their best moves not by detailed strategic planning, but rather by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and–quite literally accident.
This week I read an interview in Founders at Work with Paul Buchheit of [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Book Reviews, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Google, Innovation, Leadership | No Comments »
Marissa Mayer is the Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google. FastCompany recently published an article titled Marissa Mayer’s 9 Principles of Innovation detailing the strategies which have given the Internet’ innovation leader its edge. The following is a summary of the 9 principles:
(1) INNOVATION IS THE GOAL, NOT PERFECTION
Some programmers prefer [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Google, Innovation, e-Business | No Comments »
Disneyland and Disneyworld are the most famous and successful theme parks in the world. The Walt Disney Company is now the third largest entertainment company in the world with 133,000 employees and $60 Billion in revenue. According to Fortune magazine, in 2007, Disney is America’s most admired entertainment company.
According to Newsweek, the Disney brand is [...]
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, Book Reviews, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Faith, Innovation, Leadership, Life Lessons, Self Improvement | No Comments »
What did small businesses do without Google? In this blog entry I’m not referring to the Goolge search functionality, although that has revolutionized the accessibility of information. I am instead referring to the lesser known tools that Google has made available to small businesses. Nearly all of these tools are available for free, [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Google, Innovation, Internet Marketing, My Sites, Web Analytics, e-Business, e-Commerce | 1 Comment »
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