Mainstream Technology Driving Business Development
I’ve just got back to the office from the Romanian launch of the Modu mobile phone, device created by Dov Moran, one of the inventors of the solid state drives. Getting up to date with my RSS feeds I came across an interesting article by Rohit Bhargava: The Undiscovered Potential of A USB Stick. The idea behind [...]
In: Business Development · Tagged with: Business Development, Modu, USB Stick
Seth Godin: Understanding Business Development
Some things you should be thinking about when considering the topic of business development:
Process first, ideas second
Who decides?
Courtship, negotiation and marriage
Buyer and seller
Enthusiasm is underrated
Close the open door
Call the lawyers later
Cast a wider net
Talk to the receptionist
Hire better
Structure deals with the expectation of success
End well
Source: Seth Godin (if you find the ideas above too cryptic, [...]
In: Business Development · Tagged with: Business Development, seth godin
When in Doubt, Ask Your Customers
Driving home from work, the other day, I had an interesting customer experience. Close to my home, I stopped at a Mexican Fast Food place because I had no food at home and I didn’t feel like going out for food shopping that evening. Before I could look into the offering and choose what I [...]
In: Business Development, Consumer Behavior · Tagged with: Business Development, Consumer Behavior, Customers, Product Development
NetCamp 2008 – Conclusions
NetCamp 2008 took place today as an online business development and entrepreneurship event organized by Evensys, the company ran by Cristian Manafu. The program and the speakers were highly interesting based on the way they were marketed on the event website, but the presentations themselves during the event were a bit disappointing.
I realized most of [...]
In: Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Events, Strategic Marketing · Tagged with: Business Development, Dragos Manac, eOK.ro, evensys, FICOD2008, manafu, Netcamp, NetStartup, Online Entrepreneurship, Trilulilu, Web2.0
Strategic Marketing & Business Development
As you might have noticed already, I have decided to expand the scope of my blog to include Business Development alongside Strategic Marketing. The idea was that, even though I’m in a Product Management position (although a marketing associated position, usually), I am mainly involved with the business development of the product that I manage, rather [...]
In: Business Development, Personal, Strategic Marketing · Tagged with: Business Development, Personal, strategic marketing
