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Aiden's Ideas: The Cost of Being Rich

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009. The Cost of Being Rich. With all the (deserved) fuss lately over executive compensation, I started thinking - "What does it really cost to be rich in America? I'm not talking about Bill Gates rich, but lets just say the upper .1% or so. 1 primary residence ($2.5 million) and 1 vacation residence ($1.5 million). 2 kids at the best colleges ($50,000 each annually) and 2 kids at home. 2 $100,000 cars and 2 $75,000 cars. 15,000 per month for clothes. In 2007, the average. Just acr...

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Aiden's Ideas: May 2009

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Content Economics - Part II - Where Is The Pot of Gold? Where is the “Pot of Gold” at the end of the rainbow for online publishing? If online advertising cannot provide the necessary revenues to keep traditional media firms afloat, is there a magical model that can? Or will simple economics need to play out in order for normalcy to return to the market? In my earlier post, Content Economics. First, let’s consider content that is ubiquitous on the web. The best example of ubiquitous...

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Aiden's Ideas: Content Economics - Part II - Where Is The Pot of Gold?

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Content Economics - Part II - Where Is The Pot of Gold? Where is the “Pot of Gold” at the end of the rainbow for online publishing? If online advertising cannot provide the necessary revenues to keep traditional media firms afloat, is there a magical model that can? Or will simple economics need to play out in order for normalcy to return to the market? In my earlier post, Content Economics. First, let’s consider content that is ubiquitous on the web. The best example of ubiquitous...

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Aiden's Ideas: March 2009

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Thursday, March 26, 2009. Recycling Old (Bad) Ideas. There has been much written over the past few weeks about newspaper and magazine publishers wanting to return to a pay-for-content model. There is widespread belief forming among these publishers that they have content so unique and so compelling that people will pay money for it. But this approach hasn’t worked in the past, so why would it work now? Time Inc.’s traffic boomed after the curtain was removed from their content. Some magazine and newspape...

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Aiden's Ideas: Wasted Talent

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Monday, February 16, 2009. One of the things that puzzles me these days is - How the Hell are we ever going to get out of this recession? Every day it seems, I get an email or a phone call or a Facebook/LinkedIn message from some incredibly smart, talented. So who is going to be the "Google" of this economic downturn? What company has the guts to forge forward while everyone else is running scared? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe...

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Aiden's Ideas: Recycling Old (Bad) Ideas

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Thursday, March 26, 2009. Recycling Old (Bad) Ideas. There has been much written over the past few weeks about newspaper and magazine publishers wanting to return to a pay-for-content model. There is widespread belief forming among these publishers that they have content so unique and so compelling that people will pay money for it. But this approach hasn’t worked in the past, so why would it work now? Time Inc.’s traffic boomed after the curtain was removed from their content. Some magazine and newspape...

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Aiden's Ideas: Content Economics

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Thursday, April 9, 2009. Give consumers the content they desire in the format that they want it, when they want it, and build a business model around it. That’s the right way to drive the media industry forward, not by forcing litigation, subsidies, or other handouts to simply preserve a model that has seen its time come and go. The latest round of controversial statements coming out of traditional media this week centers around the question of how news media can survive. The economic stimulus package an...

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Aiden's Ideas: February 2009

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. In Search of . Vision. There is plenty of blame to go around when you examine the current financial crisis. There are the banks – anxious to collect interest revenue, giving loans to people that can’t afford it, believing, hell, if they default, we’ll just take the house and sell it to a higher bidder. But there is another culprit, less obvious, but one that threatens the very fiber of American business and our ability to climb out of this recession (and avoid future ones).

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Aiden's Ideas: April 2009

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Thursday, April 16, 2009. Innovative Ideas – Opportunity Lost? Are companies allowing themselves to become too “in-bred” by hiring only the candidates that fit best on paper in lieu of potential “game-changers” with new and innovative ideas? What about candidates that may not be a perfect fit on paper, but offer new perspectives and ideas that can help drive a company to the next level (and overtake their competitors)? Let me pose a few hypothetical questions:. It is worth noting that poor economic condi...

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Aiden's Ideas: Innovative Ideas – Opportunity Lost?

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Thursday, April 16, 2009. Innovative Ideas – Opportunity Lost? Are companies allowing themselves to become too “in-bred” by hiring only the candidates that fit best on paper in lieu of potential “game-changers” with new and innovative ideas? What about candidates that may not be a perfect fit on paper, but offer new perspectives and ideas that can help drive a company to the next level (and overtake their competitors)? Let me pose a few hypothetical questions:. It is worth noting that poor economic condi...