Jose Palomino

From the category archives:

Entrepreneurship

What if there was a way to organize and pull together marketing and sales ideas into something new and powerful – something where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts?

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I came home to New York City, after several days at our corporate headquarters. It was late on a weeknight in April 2000. Excited as I entered my house, I woke up my wife, and sat her down. “Honey – we’re worth fifteen million dollars!”

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Now, everyone has come across CAPTCHA text boxes — the little colorful and sometimes distorted-beyond-belief images you must decipher before you submit a registration form on the Internet. They prevent spam “bots” from hammering your website with a constant barrage of automated spam content. They’re all over the place and, to be frank, most of us hate the inconvenience of proving we’re human.

Maybe you’ll feel differently when you understand what CMU is doing with CAPTCHA. I certainly did.

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Ok.. I’m reading this book, The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris. It’s been on the top of best seller lists and it consistently caught my attention at B&N. So.. I’m about half way through and here’s some thoughts:

1. The title is a bit of a misnomer. It is catchy and controversial (lots of blog-pinions on this). I think “Life Design” is more accurate (but hey, a best seller is a best seller – so they weren’t “wrong”).

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There’s a new documentary film coming out: Tyson – on the life and times of former heavyweight champion and “baddest dude on the planet”, Mike Tyson. Tyson’s story was a rags-to-riches-to-jail-to-celebrity journey that we all witnessed. However, he made one thought famous, and it is worth noting – because in this thought is the essence of business reality and strategy. Not just “marketing” strategy – but the “real deal” of making business work:….

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