TweetI was browsing ProductHunt today and my friend Dave posted an email newsletter, GetBiked that’s focused on a once a week mailing of bikes for sale. Ryan had a good comment that you can see below: .@JasonLBaptiste on “passive commerce” re. @getbiked in @producthunt thread: pic.twitter.com/2jpXpE1Gsn — Dave Ambrose (@daveambrose) July 29, 2014 I responded […]

TweetLarry Page, the CEO of Google, has what he calls the toothbrush test.  It simply asks if your product is useful enough to be used two times a day and something you can’t function without.  Ever travel without a toothbrush?  That’s how life should feel if your service went away.  It’s a good litmus test […]

TweetFour years ago to the day, I wrote my last article on email newsletters “Email newsletters are still a serious business”, which was a followup to this original article “Email newsletters are serious business”. It turns out that four years later, email newsletters are even more of a serious business. Instead of profiling what the […]

TweetTwitter has a ton of growth potential to unlock. After releasing their Q1 results, the stock dropped due to a lack of user growth. I personally think Twitter is going to be a gem that’s around for decades and that they’re in their first inning. The best growth is yet to come and here’s why: […]

Tweet For the past few years, the trend has been to be mobile first and it’s the end all to be all. There’s this thought that being built for a mobile device was the final frontier and the biggest shift we’ve ever seen. What if it’s just the first shockwave of a big earthquake? What […]