“Nice content – awesome presentation! What did you use to make it?!”
That’s what everyone who sees my BRITE presentation asks me. It’s a new service called Prezi. And it’s insanely great – the minute I saw it I had to have it, no questions asked. So, for the first time in half a decade, I found myself doing the unthinkable: paying for software.
And that made me reflect on something that I thought I’d share.
Everybody’s searching desperately for business model innovation: Detroit, newspapers, record labels, banks. No market is left untouched, no value proposition sacrosanct.
Yet, the best business model in the world is also the simplest: make stuff that’s insanely great. Stuff that’s insanely great does what Prezi does – amazes, enriches, and inspires. That kind of stuff doesn’t need a hard sell, a new market, or a convoluted product range. It just needs to be.
The converse is also – and perhaps more importantly – true…
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Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as “one of the great menace of our times” have an extraordinary story to tell — and some justice on their side. [click to continue]
50 Minutes reports “How do you approach a gang of pirates, terrorising shipping on the high seas? With extreme caution and a posse of armed guards, for a start.”
