Author Archives: Eric

Newspapers, Meet Groupon

By Eric | Published: June 18, 2010
Here is a success story from San Diego News.  The below piece was written by Ryan Chartrand, a fellow Canadian living in  California.  Great post, its clear that media companies need to start moving quicker to get in the game, with the Group Buying market still in its infancy and the lower cost of entry [...]
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hiring

By Eric | Published: June 18, 2010
Never Read Another Resume Hire for intellect not experience Someone with no experience but intelligence will always perform better than someone with experience. Sure the person without experience will make mistakes but they will be able to learn from those mistakes with a greater resolve.
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Groupon’s Strategic Vision

By Eric | Published: June 10, 2010
There has been some speculation of what is next for Groupon, some of the ideas are filled with grandeur and others have some merit, check out http://www.evanmiller.org/is-groupon-the-next-google.html and http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/02/teardown-groupon/.  Either way people truly believe that Groupon is revolutionizing the way people shop online. In this interview (embedded below) with the WSJ it is quite clear where [...]
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Risk should equal Reward in Advertising

By Eric | Published: June 8, 2010
Ad Agencies should share in the risk and the reward!
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Unconventional Conventional thinking is makes me dizzy!

By Eric | Published: June 2, 2010
I watched a talk by two Irish guys today about breaking conventions in how you do things on your site. For example with sign up, the convention says grab as many details as possible before letting a user try your app, by breaking conventions you just let anyone use your app, then if they like [...]
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