You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different.
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How to sell cars in the 21st century
Apple’s former retail boss explains how they’ve built the buying experience at Tesla: This has lessons on so many levels. From the design that’s super ‘on brand’ to the video…
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Wealth in China
I have to say, although it cuts some corners here and there, this is a nice way to look at it: Dong Fan: When you are 40-years-old, if you don’t…
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Steve Blank on capitalizing startups
Yesterday I ran into this website, the Shoshin Project (I think it’s new-ish), where they have all kinds of really great videos of big minds sharing their ideas on important…
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Goldman Invests, innovation ensues
Reports of the US$ 500mm investment from Goldman Sachs in Facebook are all over the internets. Of course, this is a significant event, because as ‘the age of entrepreneurship’ continues…
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Fill your own forms!
Seth has a great rant about bad form design, which appears to be a pet peeve of both of us. Having lived in Africa and traveled the continent extensively, I…
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It’s the execution, stupid!
I meet a lot of people who are enamored of ‘ideas’. “I’ve got all of these great ideas”, they will say, “I only need to find a way to sell…
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Where good ideas come from
Found this really cool video from Steven Johnson that explains patterns that lead to great ideas. Busting a lot of myths along the way. Go see! [Hat tip to Wouter]…
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How to bridge the gap between Marketing & Development
Unfortunately we see that the bigger a company gets, the more each department will tend to work in separation, sometimes even based in different cities or countries. Within such so…
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Emotional innovation in design
Last Tuesday I went to the Design Management Network meeting (in Dutch) in Breda. The subject was ‘Emotional innovation in design’ and included a special presentation by father and son van Kralingen. They have…
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The future of books
IDEO does another take on what books can look like in the future. They present 3 different concepts, that look at reading from different perspectives: data-driven, social centric, and real-time…







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