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What happens when a wine club is anything but exclusive
“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”Groucho Marx
Recently, I got a cold call at the office from a wine club I recently had joined (mostly for research, actually). The club had a hot deal,
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Overheard in my email box, by a journalist/media dude that chose to not be identified. How strange I thought, but it struck me as something I wanted you to hear.
"I have found that truth and bias are often mutually exclusive. Can you cover global warming with a facade of no bias.ie treat a
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By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg
In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things stand out:
1) There is no actual deal, just a proposed compromise that no one actually likes
2) Everyone seems to be confused about the new, private Internet
Wh
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By Tony Greenberg and friends POST YOURS HERE
A long time ago in a business not so far away, a king sat considering his fate. The weather had been poor during the last growing season, the peasants were getting restless, and neighboring kingdoms were either disappearing into the abyss or rais
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For more information, go to http://www.trustyourtongue.com
“Wine is bottled poetry.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Have you ever had a really good wine? How about a really expensive one? How about a wine with really high ratings from famous wine critics? Were all three the same bottle of wine?
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by Doug Frost, Master of Wine / Master Sommelier, friend and partner
Points are Pointless
The 2009 Bordeaux futures campaign has just ended: the longest and most drawn-out in history. Prices, to put it mildly, have never been higher. Today the last estate released its prices for its 2009 w
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"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson
In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it was set up to
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It may be the most overused, least appreciated, most haphazardly defined word in modern life. Yet, it makes online commerce possible, discussion groups debatable and eBay profitable.
Simultaneously, its abuse leads to urgent letters from Nigerian depositories, fuels goofball conspiracy theories,
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Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
By Tony Greenberg, Alex Veytsel & Eric Pulier
Excerpts from a presentation at the H+ Conference, Harvard University
June 13, 2010
Download the PowerPoint deck here /Click through web preso here
One man, one army. So we're going to
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“My supervisor will just tell you the same thing”
Or, Who Needs MacMall In an Apple Store World?
By Tony Greenberg
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
I’m a tough customer. I admit it. Takes one to know one. I’m a loud shocking d
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What happens when a wine club is anything but exclusive
“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”Groucho Marx
Recently, I got a cold call at the office from a wine club I recently had joined (mostly for research, actually). The club had a hot deal, what the caller said was a great wine at a phenomenal price, and the cases were sure to be gone soon. It seems everyone everywhere has a deal on a bottle of wine.
Okay, that got me going. If the wine was selling so fast, and it was already nearly . . . Read More
August 22, 2010
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Overheard in my email box, by a journalist/media dude that chose to not be identified. How strange I thought, but it struck me as something I wanted you to hear.
"I have found that truth and bias are often mutually exclusive. Can you cover global warming with a facade of no bias.ie treat a nut-bird like James Inhoffe with an even hand? The business, and indeed the facade, have traditional journalistic middle ground is increasingly defunct.
It has always been a myth, albeit a relative one. Walter Cronkite had lots of integrity but . . . Read More
August 12, 2010
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By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg
In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things stand out:
1) There is no actual deal, just a proposed compromise that no one actually likes
2) Everyone seems to be confused about the new, private Internet
While more viable than its critics suppose, this solution will implode in a wave of mistrust. Even if implemented, there is no equilibrium state possible between the public and private Internet. That’s because the new private Internet is not new – . . . Read More
August 10, 2010
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By Tony Greenberg and friends POST YOURS HERE
A long time ago in a business not so far away, a king sat considering his fate. The weather had been poor during the last growing season, the peasants were getting restless, and neighboring kingdoms were either disappearing into the abyss or raising invasion armies that he couldn’t match. The King sat wistfully wondering what to do when the guards announced a visitor – a traveling Jester.
“Greetings, my King,” said the Jester. “I bring you notions, potions, and, most importantly . . . Read More
July 21, 2010
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For more information, go to http://www.trustyourtongue.com
“Wine is bottled poetry.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Have you ever had a really good wine? How about a really expensive one? How about a wine with really high ratings from famous wine critics? Were all three the same bottle of wine? Maybe that expensive and/or highly rated bottle of wine wasn’t really that good for that night, given what you spent and given what you expected. But maybe you were afraid to admit it, fearing you'd only expose your ignorance. After all, everyon . . . Read More
July 3, 2010
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by Doug Frost, Master of Wine / Master Sommelier, friend and partner
Points are Pointless
The 2009 Bordeaux futures campaign has just ended: the longest and most drawn-out in history. Prices, to put it mildly, have never been higher. Today the last estate released its prices for its 2009 wines: Ausone is available for more than a thousand dollars a bottle. But act now! This is only the first tranche (or release); subsequent tranches may be higher still.
Oh, and one other note, that Ausone price applies only to importers. You'll hav . . . Read More
July 2, 2010
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"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson
In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it was set up to close a deal. Unfortunately for IT buyers, there really weren’t any better alternatives.
And the process wasn’t much better for the sellers either. Vendors were burdened with trying to provide excess requirements for the least cost, regardles . . . Read More
July 2, 2010
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It may be the most overused, least appreciated, most haphazardly defined word in modern life. Yet, it makes online commerce possible, discussion groups debatable and eBay profitable.
Simultaneously, its abuse leads to urgent letters from Nigerian depositories, fuels goofball conspiracy theories, enables a menagerie of computer viruses, and funnels millions of hapless targets into the clutches of phishers and frauds.
“IT” is trust. We no longer know what it means. As we stumbled into a fully digital, fully connected age, we forgot to f . . . Read More
June 25, 2010
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Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
By Tony Greenberg, Alex Veytsel & Eric Pulier
Excerpts from a presentation at the H+ Conference, Harvard University
June 13, 2010
Download the PowerPoint deck here /Click through web preso here
One man, one army. So we're going to count down what we do. I’m honored to be hanging out here with (Rob) Tercek, (Alex) Lightman and a bunch of other buddies. When Alex said, “Come to Harvard,” I said, “I better bring some backup.” I called some brilliant guys that I know.
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June 22, 2010
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“My supervisor will just tell you the same thing”
Or, Who Needs MacMall In an Apple Store World?
By Tony Greenberg
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
I’m a tough customer. I admit it. Takes one to know one. I’m a loud shocking dose of reality for companies that sell me something. I expect too much from them. I’ve given them my money for, and put my trust in; their products or services, and I expect them to value that accordingly. I can be a firm’s greatest ally or its w . . . Read More
June 14, 2010
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