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Singapore‘s Top Ten Favourite Brands 2009

1. Colgate

2. Google

3. StarHub

4. NTUC Fairprice

5. Sony

6. SingTel

7. Yahoo

8. Straits Times

9. 7Eleven

10. Nippon Paint

If one thing is clear, it’s that Gmail has become an increasingly mature product that can be used for business. With the Postini acquisition, Google is beginning to offer enterprise-level services (like compliance archiving, service level agreements, and more comprehensive spam policies).

Of course, what really matters about this Skype app is its communication quality. To that end, a call I made to a friend in Israel sounded better than a regular mobile phone call. Few of the calls I made got dropped, and those that were can be attributed more to network congestion than to Skype.

Om Malik reviews the skype phone and likes it!

Small companies with low overhead, reliable owners, a small number of committed employees, personal client relationships, and sustainable business models that drive a reasonable profit are the great opportunity of our time.

Small is the new black i guess haha.

Michael Dell had invited me down to its annual meeting of The Business Council, and I was put on a panel with several other CEOs, which was moderated by the tremendous journalist Michael Lewis. The topic of our panel was, What Do Employees Want? And the CEOs took their turn describing all the benefits they gave their employees, and how they gave out free M&Ms on Wednesdays, and appeased them with stock options and free parking spaces. When I spoke, I thought everyone would laugh at me, snickering How indulgent! How naïve! Because my point was essentially a variation on the theme of this Fast Company article — employees don’t want M&Ms, they want to love what they do. Highly-motivated people are the productive engine of modern civilization.

Indeed! Loving what you do is very important. The number one driving factor is that it must feel good getting out of bed to go to work!

The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.

Basically the untold story of the ‘other’ founder of Facebook. Chatted with Chris once before. This is really remarkable!

So, the idea of minimum viable product is useful because you can basically say, look, our vision is to build a product that solves this core problem for customers, these kind of general feature areas, and we think that for the people who are early adopters for that kind of solution, they will be the most forgiving.

And they will fill in their minds the features that aren’t quite there if we give them the core, tent-pole features that point the direction of where we’re trying to go.

So, the minimum viable product is that product which has just those features and no more that allows you to ship a product that early adopters see and, at least some of whom resonate with, pay you money for, and start to gave you feedback on.

vaporware -> beta -> minimum viable product…. 🙂

but this is a good read on product development. essentially don’t sell products till u know you can get a customer and with today’s tools on the internet it’s so much easier to test out demands for concepts by using search marketing.