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Jimmy Iovine and why the Apple-Beats deal is genius
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, Internet history, Marketing insight, Media Industry, Quotes, Web/Tech
May 9, 2014
“Apple got everything right except the earbud…”
Jimmy Iovine: “I wasn’t talented enough to stay in the band” – So he built a company and sold it for $3.2 billion to Apple instead
Why Apple’s acquisition of …
Netscape…Founded 20 years ago today
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Internet insight, Videos to Watch
This is not a story about how someone learned “one simple trick” and made millions.
This is a story about how to do business right.
If you’re ever going to make millions, this is the kind of story you need …
Netscape: The original Internet start up
There were a few businesses on the Internet before Netscape, but it’s not exaggeration to say that the chances are overwhelmingly good that if you’re using the Web, you’re using it because this company existed.
In the world of business …
The biggest roadblock to learning and how to overcome it
This is a post script to On Learning – and failing to learn – languages and other hard things.
On the surface, “On Learning” is about language learning, but it applies to the process of learning any difficult subject.…
On learning – and failing to learn – languages (and other hard things)
Some semi-random but entirely practical observations about language learning that teachers never talk about in language class – but should…
1. Two people can speak the same language fluently and still misunderstand each other – massively.
Conversely, two people who …