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To a billion dollar business
By Porchlight
David's Blueprint to a Billion is still getting quite a bit of coverage after being out for over a year. Here are a few links you may have missed: An interview on ABC News (link on the right side of the page). Billion dollar companies have exponential financial growth (example: Google that went from 15 million to one billion in a mere four years) and follow seven unique managerial practices.
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links for 2007-06-21
By Porchlight
Bit Literacy >> As reviewed by 37signals | Achieveing Emptiness with Bit Literacy "The message of Mark Hurst’s new book, Bit Literacy: In an age of infinite bits, time and attention are the scarce resources. The solution is to constantly manage your bits with the goal of reaching an “empty” state.
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Holy Shit.
By Porchlight
I am listening to the keynotes at Tools of Change. Manolis Kelaidis is talking about his bluebook project. He has prototyped a book that will interact with other devices.
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Changing the world by learning to sell green products.
By Porchlight
MarketingProfs applies Levitt's marketing myopia to "green" businesses. When creating environmentally friendly products, businesses can easily fall into the marketing myopia trap; that of, focusing too much on the green benefits. It seems the majority of consumers won't go out of their way to buy a product simply because it's green.
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TOC - Business Models that Guarantee Profitability in Publishing
By Porchlight
Bob Pritchett, CEO of Logos Bible Software, is talking about their direct to customer business model. They have 500,000 users and about 20% of those are returning customers. Their business involves developing electronic versions of religious texts from both acquiring rights for existing publishers and developing original content.
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These are a few of our favorite things
By Porchlight
I thought it would be fun to take a cue from Ben and Jackie and ask the 800-CEO-READ crew to compile a list of our favorite things about Milwaukee. Wow, a very passionate discussion ensued -- don't worry about Milwaukeeans failing to supply an opinion. All in all, we came up with a great list.
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Print on Demand Workshop from Day One
By Porchlight
There was a great session on Print on Demand yesterday. Here are some quick notes: Ingram's POD service, Lighting Source, shared these stats from their service: 500,000+ titles available 14,000,000 printed thus far 1. 3 million printed each month average print run - 1.
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Take 'em to the beach.
By Porchlight
If you're looking for a paperback to peruse on the beach, BusinessWeek suggests: The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown (due out late July) -- how gambling fits in with finance. The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle -- the ugly side of layoffs. Mr.
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Flickr fun
By Porchlight
I finally got around to posting some pictures from our May event with Nikos Mourkogiannis, author of Purpose. You'll also find a few new pictures from around the office and from our trip to New York City for BEA. Here's a link to our Flickr page: http://www.
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Reporting Live from O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference
By Porchlight
I got on a plane early this morning to head for California. I am attending O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference in San Jose. A bunch of folks are here to talk about the future of publishing.
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