Adam Hartung

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05 February, 2013

Key lessons from Netflix's amazing trajectory

Last week's earning's announcements gave us some big news. Looking around the tech industry, a number of companies reported about ......

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22 January, 2013

Failure inevitable for companies who miss market shift

Microsoft needed a great Christmas season. After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from ......

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09 January, 2013

Why Jeff Bezos is our greatest living CEO

The Harvard Business Review recently published its list of the 100 Best Performing CEOs. This list is better than most ......

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30 November, 2012

Irrelevancy leads to failure – Worry for Yahoo, Microsoft, HP, Sears, etc.

The web lit up yesterday when people started sharing a Fortune quote from Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, "We are ......

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06 November, 2012

Why the Top 20 R&D spenders waste their money - lessons from Microsoft & GM

Many people equate spending on R&D with investing in innovation. The logic goes that R&D spending is lab spending, and ......

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31 October, 2012

Wake Up! Ballmer's driving Microsoft off a cliff!

This is an exciting time of year for tech users - which is now all of us. The biggest show ......

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22 October, 2012

4 myths and 1 truth about investing

Today is the 25th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash that saw the worst ever one-day percentage decline on ......

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19 September, 2012

Innovation matters: Why you care more about Apple than Kraft

Apple is launching the iPhone 5, and the market cap is hitting record highs. No wonder, what with pre-orders on ......

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11 September, 2012

How Amazon whupped Facebook last week

It's been two very different stories for Amazon and Facebook this summer. Amazon's market cap has risen about 20%, while ......

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30 August, 2012

Neil Armstrong's legacy - More important now than ever

Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon died last Saturday. Overall, I was surprised at just how ......