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TheMuse .
San Francisco, California, United States
Member since: June 18, 2007
San Francisco, California, United States
Member since: June 18, 2007
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as somebody who buys my shirts (JantzenTaiulor.com) and suits in Hong Kong (WW Chan) and gets great results after only 2 fittings, this concept makes a lot of sense. They're right about fit: to get the right cut, you need to either spend a lot of money or be left with baggy, ill fitting clothng. The entire world of men's clothes used to be semi bespoke and we've now gone to the far end of the extreme for the majority of pieces sold in the US
The concept makes a lot of sense because for pants and polo shirts, there are enough basic colors to build a good sized business and satisfy the 80% of the market looking for good fitting basics
I wish them a lot of luck
on Bonobos seeks to be the Zappos of pants (September 08, 2009)
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the NYTimes Sunday edition is going to have gangbusters sales all over the country if even major city newspapers end up closing down :-)
that said, a hybrid online blog model will open up lots of opportunity for regular citizens who are experts to teach others online, share reviews and participate in their community more than ever,,,,,,, and that's a good thing
Hopefully, the SF Chronicle can survive online and adapt to the new model
on San Francisco Chronicle coming to an end? (February 25, 2009)
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It's going to be hard for them to attract anybody of quality given the uncertainty surrounding MSFT's intentions to buy and run it themselves (and not need the new CEO) as well as the weak competitive position of YHOO now and the need for a deep pocketed partner like MSFT to compete in this environment (YHOO as a standalone is a scary proposition for anyone to run)
and given Carl Icahn's investment is sitting with a huge loss, I find it almost impossible that YHOO won't be back in talks with MSFT soon
on Who's going to reinvent Yahoo? (November 18, 2008)
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some more positives....
(1) size matters and they're the last ones standing
(2) int'l growth potential is still high, even if competition is harder to displace
(3) innovation is the key and always will be andn they can afford the R&D budgets to work on harder problems or go after larger opportunities
(4) innovative start-up's find themselves in the greatest credit crunch since the Great Depression (no IPO mkt, etc) and these large leaders all have the cash to buy them from VC's
and some negatives....
(1) now they have 8 yrs of revenues and profits and margins to analyze, whereas back then investors had nothing to go on but hype, so it was MUCH easier to overvalue them. A lot harder now, so valaution multiples are contracting
(2) the Internet is much more mature
(3) the law of big numbers is hurting them and always will from now on (hard to grow off such large sales bases)
(4) international competition is much tougher than it was before
(5) hard to keep the best employees at such large companies esp since stock options are meaningless with stock declines
on Wall Street's crisis differs for Net stocks (September 17, 2008)
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nice thought provoking article, Larry
Social proofing in the age of the Internet brings with it a necessity for more carefully constructing the specific range of tests and breadth of testing, to levels not ever seen before, and doing so in much condensed time periods. As a researcher, you can use software tools to survey large populations in much shorter time than ever before, but like all data gathering exercises, the output is only as good as the parameters and questions posed
the beauty of today's technology toolkit is that it allows a researcher to come at a problem quickly from many different angles of attack, and to quickly test intuitions that were never possible even 10 yrs ago. Tangents can easily be validated or refuted in much less time than ever
however, the likelihood of group think on a mass scale is exacerbated by technology and the speed of information in the digital age we live in
new frameworks need to be developed that capitalize on the vast possibilities of data mining while also carefully considering the softer aspects of qualitative social filtering that could skew results in a world where opinions can be changed much more rapidly than ever before with the click of a mouse
on Empathic research methods and design strategy (July 22, 2008)
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