Playboy’s New Online Subscription

I have been avidly following the evolving strategy at Playboy ever since I met Christie Hefner at a Watermark talk a few years ago.  Despite how I feel about their airbrushed, objectifying content (as a woman, a mother and a member of the human race) I admire...

The Membership Economy (or The End of Ownership?)

It seems that nearly everything is available on a pay-as-you-go or pay-for-access model. Even things that you used to have to buy outright.  You can pay for membership to musical content, games, encyclopedias, and software applications.  But you can also...

What Salesforce.com Can Teach Us

I just finished reading Marc Benioff's book Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry.  While it wasn't exactly a story (it was more of a list of short blurbs,...