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Karma could mean billions for Facebook.

Tyler Willis — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:37:41 -0400

Facebook acquired mobile commerce startup, Karma. This acquisition didn't get nearly the attention it deserved. As Chris Dixon wrote about Facebook's Business Model: The key question when trying to value Facebook’s stock is: can they find another business model that generates significantly ...

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Growth Hacking

Tyler Willis — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:28:21 -0400

Andrew Chen has the valley all atwitter with his most recent post: Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing. The post is well worth reading, and Andrew adds a fantastic starting point that will get a lot more people involved in the discussion about how marketing teams are being reshaped. If you're ...

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The New Literacy Rate

Tyler Willis — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:36:44 -0400

If I were to send you back in time to 1500, a time when people were just learning how to cope with the recent disruptive invention of the moveable type printing press, you could have lived a very respectable and comfortable live (by the standards of the time) without being literate. In fact ...

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The Law of Accelerating Media

Tyler Willis — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:31:43 -0500

Regular Readers If you are a regular reader here, you might be interested in reading a guest essay I wrote in Forbes. It's about how marketers are being challenged by the increasing the number of channels available to engage consumers on. It takes about 3.5 minutes to read and covers a lot of ...

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Hire Moms

Tyler Willis — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:19:25 -0500

Building a great team is the ultimate competitive advantage. Steve Jobs famously thought that his greatest creation wasn't a great device, but rather was a company filled with people capable of making great devices. If you want to create an entity that is valuable and makes an impact, there's no ...

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Robot Apocolypse

Tyler Willis — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:51:22 -0400

The technologies that contribute to automation are likely to follow an exponential pattern, which means that more industries will start to lose jobs at an astounding rate as machines get more and more capable. Let's say Automation could reduce the number of employees needed for the Retail ...

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Potential Radicals

Tyler Willis — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:00:00 -0400

Occupy Wall Street is becoming a meaningful movement these days, with large numbers of people out on the street in several major cities and many more engaging cautiously, curious about what the movement's message is. That curiosity is a rough proxy for potential radicalization - it stems from a ...

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Video of Celebration of Steve Jobs

Tyler Willis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:34:07 -0400

On October 19th, there was an event on Apple's campus celebrating Steve Jobs's life. This event was not secret, but the live video feed that connected all employees of Apple Stores to the event was not widely shared. The event is great, and each contributor is fantastic. It's a great way to ...

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Chinese Import Tariffs are a Bad Idea

Tyler Willis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:16:02 -0400

I just got back from a vacation and during that time I got to do something I love - read all sorts of intellectually stimulating stuff. It re-affirmed some simple knowledge: I love the Economist... One of the most interesting stories I read was one I hadn't been following at all prior to my trip ...

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By Honoring our Heroes, We Make Our Values Known

Tyler Willis — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:38:31 -0400

"By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known. Perhaps more clearly than words ever could." -Steve Jobs This is hardly the most well-known Steve Jobs quote, but it's possibly the most fitting as we look back and remember him. It appeared as part of a forward ...

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