Although it’s an excuse to use a goofy puppet-movie scene, this article is a good reminder that entrepreneurs should keep their eyes on the basics
01.21.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Management | John P. Muldoon
Bill Liao is a techie entreneur who made his first million by changing his language. And not PHP, Javascript or some other computer language. He did it by changing plain old English (or maybe plain old Mandarin, because he’s bilingual). Liao (@liaonet), successful entrepreneur, co-founder of Xing, author of Stone Soup, Special Diplomatic envoy for [...]
01.17.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Personal Effectiveness, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
A Behavioral Economist gives some fascinating insights in to our treatment of money.
09.29.11 | Economics, Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
Companies need to get back to basics of branding, marketing guru Stephen Brown says.
08.10.11 | Fun stuff, Management, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
If a website is “worthy of a bookmark,” then it probably needs an app, according to Dermot Daly (@dermdaly). Founder of app developers Tapadoo, Daly was speaking at this month’s Refresh Dublin (@refreshdublin). The near-full-house event was hosted as usual by the Science Gallery (@sciencegallery) in TCD. He cautioned, however, that not all sites need [...]
07.21.11 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Innovation | John P. Muldoon
Some of the traits that “make Google unique” — risk, trust, openness —don’t cost money and can easily be applied by other companies, according to Helen Tynan, Director of People Operations at Google’s European HQ. In her talk, Future Proof Your Workforce at the NCI’s Cornflakes & Commerce series, Tynan spoke of the attitudes and [...]
07.6.11 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Management, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Isn’t if funny how the basics of science fiction are already in use today? From the earliest days of Star Trek to movies like The Minority Report, people have manipulated displays on surface tops or in air. Even two years ago, it still seemed far away, according to “Microsoft’s Storyteller,” Steve Clayton (@stevecla). But now [...]
05.10.11 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
If you are going to engage in crowdsourcing or social design, make sure you follow etiquette and take the project seriously. The advice came from Evangelos Kapros as he told of the mess the youth wing of the Greek Conservative Party (ONNED) got itself in to with a logo competition. What started as someone’s idea [...]
03.15.11 | Fun stuff, Innovation, Social Media | John P. Muldoon
You can stop working now and fire up Farmville or Red Dead Redemption. It turns out tending that online farm or shooting zombies isn’t just a waste of time. Video games, in fact, are of much more benefit that they are given credit for, according to Julien Wéra. Addressing the monthly Refresh Dublin (@refreshdublin) talk [...]
02.3.11 | Fun stuff | John P. Muldoon
