tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46530297277650020542011-04-21T13:54:07.127-04:00What I find, I give to you, so that when you take, you think of meiamashmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732026698273337735noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4653029727765002054.post-10253352161978165522009-02-11T12:49:00.003-05:002009-02-11T12:53:56.131-05:00Focus on qualitative research (about 7 subjects) because you don't know the right question, much less the right answer<br /><br />Treat subjects like they are smarter, but from a different place, and you don't speak the language<br /><br />Key to killer product is to identify a contradiction and solve it (e.g. people like to have clean floors, but cleaning is a dirty task)<br /><br />If reason for being is being first, you maybe leaving money on the table.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4653029727765002054-1025335216197816552?l=iam-ashmartin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>iamashmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732026698273337735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4653029727765002054.post-83889477629441713992009-02-05T18:40:00.002-05:002009-02-05T18:49:56.287-05:00Word:<br />latent - adj. - <span class="sense_content">present and capable of becoming though not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic<br /><br />Quote:<br />"When the customer comes first, the customer will last"<br />- Robert Half<br /><br />Concept:<br />Working Capital - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_capital">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_capital</a><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4653029727765002054-8388947762944171399?l=iam-ashmartin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>iamashmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732026698273337735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4653029727765002054.post-2356541368210017032009-02-04T06:08:00.001-05:002009-02-04T07:01:22.177-05:00<span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Word:<br />Moribund - adj. - on the verge of distinction, near death, not progressing or advancing<br /><br />Quote:<br /></span><h1 style="margin: 0pt; font-weight: normal;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:12px;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?”</span></h1><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" > - William James</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;">Concept:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;">Private Equity - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4653029727765002054-235654136821001703?l=iam-ashmartin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>iamashmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732026698273337735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4653029727765002054.post-84317697457644977562008-12-11T10:50:00.001-05:002009-02-04T07:01:37.034-05:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2008/bs20081211_514561.htm">"I am excited to be witnessing it all through the lens of </a><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2008/bs20081211_514561.htm" rel="topic">MIT Sloan</a><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2008/bs20081211_514561.htm"> and the impressive scholars who teach and research here." </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4653029727765002054-8431769745764497756?l=iam-ashmartin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>iamashmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732026698273337735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4653029727765002054.post-43226909692163264152008-10-30T06:50:00.001-04:002009-02-04T06:55:49.414-05:00<h2 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/oct2008/bs20081028_032688.htm">"MIT Sloan's approach to leadership development and its balance between the theoretical and the practical resonated with me" </a></span></h2><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4653029727765002054-4322690969216326415?l=iam-ashmartin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>iamashmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732026698273337735noreply@blogger.com0