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Re: Disruptive Innovation in the Mobile Payments Industry

David Feldt — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:29:06 -0000

I neglected to discuss the P2P space and key players like Venmo in this post.

Re: Disruptive Innovation in the Mobile Payments Industry

William Sze — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:21:51 -0000

Hi,
Great post!Thanks for sharing valuable informations. Now-a-days Mobile payment solution works various mobile devices. But I am using Alliance Bankcard iPhone PAYware for secure payment. Is there any other company who provides this facility, please tell me?

Re: Yo, Taxi!

JR — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:24:15 -0000

I enjoyed this...very cool.

Re: The Blueprint For Conquering Fear

David Feldt — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:49:58 -0000

Thanks for the comment Chris! I'm about to read the U of T piece by Gregory Berns.

Re: The Blueprint For Conquering Fear

Chris Whitside — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:39:49 -0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the fear barrier to innovation David. We just can't imagine how many wonderful and life-enhancing innovations we could be living with right now if only a few more people had the courage to push through the barrier.

Despite living in an advanced technological culture, we forget we are still just animals. So we underestimate how much of our fear is an artifact of our evolution, both biological and social. Our brains are not significantly different biologically from those of our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago. Fear served humans well then because there was so much more real danger -- fear of predators, aggressors and fear of being ostracized from the collective safety of our tribe. Then, fear was a matter of life or death. Now it's not but our brains haven't evolved to make that distinction. Today, would-be world changers are too often paralyzed by a fear of embarrassment that feels just as threatening as a hungry lion. The dangers are no longer real but the fear - both biological and social - is.For more on this, read The Iconoclast by Gregory Berns. The Rotman school at the University of Toronto recently published an interview with Gregory Berns - Iconoclasts: Great minds think different http://www.rotman.utoronto....

And now that I've used this posting as one more excuse to avoid my own hungry lion, it's time to get back to just doing it.

Re: Apple Stock Going to $1,000?

MarkSoFla — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:35:08 -0000

I'll be very happy if it does.

Re: Human Character, the Final Frontier

David Feldt — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:32:59 -0000

Thanks for the correction Priya!

Re: Human Character, the Final Frontier

Priya Narayan — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:12:10 -0000

Hi David,

Stumbled upon this article while searching for something on google. I see that you have mentioned that the image was taken in 2005 world cup. But was it not in 1995 , south africa won the rugby world cup.

Thanks,
Priya

Re: Kulula Airlines : Break-through branding and corporate culture with a sense of humor

Sridhar — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:21:35 -0000

I am glad I have not heard such comments from the attendants of the aircraft in which I flown many time. God bless passengers who travel inspite of such comments.

Re: Dealing With Information Overload : If This Happens Then Do That

Charlie Blower — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:52:13 -0000

can you send me an invite? charlie.blower@gmail.com

Re: Growing Up on Google

Modern Retro Furniture — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:04:05 -0000

Apple saw growing developer support in the second quarter, taking the momentum away from Google's Android platform. That's according to a new study from start-up Flurry, which provides developers with application data and a ...

Re: Growing Up on Google

Dining Room Furniture — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:14:10 -0000

Re: Why I’m Excited About Groupon: Lessons For Businesses

David Feldt — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:20:17 -0000

Thanks Erin!

Regarding whether they should have accepted the offer or not and the impact on early employees, the incentive to sell or IPO ("liquidity event") seems to be a non issue these days. Sites like http://secondmarket.com and others are now making secondary markets in pre-IPO, private companies and founders and early employees can liquidate some of their equity. As an early-stage founder, I think this is a great trend!

Re: Why I’m Excited About Groupon: Lessons For Businesses

Erin Bury — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:52:24 -0000

Great post David! I totally agree - while Groupon is seen as a Web 2.0 startup akin to other billion-dollar businesses like Zynga, it really employs Web 1.0 technology (and tactics like sales).

I don't know whether I agree with turning down the offer (if I was one of their early employees I'd be pretty annoyed), but they obviously have a viable business model, marked success to date, and of course that sense of humour.

Re: Twitter is growing up

laptop battery — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:17:15 -0000

Please write more so that we can get more updates in your blog. Thanks a lot!

Re: The Trader Mentality vs. the Builder Paradigm

David Feldt — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:36:23 -0000

Thank you! Life is an ongoing adventure :)

Re: The Trader Mentality vs. the Builder Paradigm

Jazzbo — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:18:27 -0000

You certainly have had an interesting business life. and a great learning curve.... Interesting. Congratulations....Lots of luck in your new endeavour.

Jaybee

Re: Leadership checklist to move you and your team forward in 2010

David Feldt — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:33:47 -0000

Interesting. I never thought of it that way before. Thanks for your
input!

Re: Leadership checklist to move you and your team forward in 2010

mckra1g — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:11:01 -0000

These are classic reminders of how to keep focused and moving forward. Thank you for sharing. It's significant that so many of the entries are based in faith (in the generic term, not the administrative one usually associated with formal religion).

Positive, expansive endeavor must have as its foundation faith in oneself.

Great post! Thanks for the forum.

Best, M.

Re: Tiger’s silence could cost him $500 Million

A fellow spiritual traveler — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:13:50 -0000

Your thoughts on Tiger Woods made me realize the power of a spiritual life in a quite unexpected way. The great thing they say about golf (and I've hear it explained in the zen of golf),is that unlike any other sport where you're paying against a team, in golf you are ultimately playing against yourself. Restraint, focus, the ability to think about the next shot vs. ruminate on the last one. All these are about taming the inner beast.
What a perfect way to think about life too really. We're ultimately just playing against ourselves. Tiger's brilliance at golf, for all that it has won him in terms of recognition and fame, has been played on the external level only. His great opportunity is to play golf internally and win on the most important and challenging course in the world: The spiritual level.
It's everyone's challenge really. We're all Tiger in that way.

Re: I’m tweeting more (a lot more) and blogging less (not at all) … Why?

Ian Mason — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:12:27 -0000

Hi David: I don't think it's an either/or question. For a quick heads-up and fast feedback, Twitter seems right. For a deeper dive (or an inline video), use the blog. I blog in order to learn new things and work out my thoughts on them in a systematic fashion. I imagine Twitter is rather better for conveying pre-existing opinions and fast facts.
As it happens, I tackle a similar Twitter question in a post on my own (non-business) blog:
http://www.iangarrickmason....

Best,
Ian

Re: Ego, Humility and Liberation – The Deeper Meaning of Passover

husnain — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:35:22 -0000

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Re: Lessons learned from my first live Twitter interview

Evelyn So — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:34:33 -0000

It was a great experience indeed. Amazing insights! Thanks for participating, David, and to post your experience here. I was suggesting to Trina that we should do a lesson learned asap and I think you beat us to it :)

Re: Lessons learned from my first live Twitter interview

David Feldt — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:20:48 -0000

Very intense! :) I look forward to the other Twitter interviews you're
doing for the Art From the Unexpected event.

Re: Lessons learned from my first live Twitter interview

David Feldt — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:37:52 -0000

Very intense! :) I look forward to the other Twitter interviews you're doing for the Art From the Unexpected event.