How big is a 130nm Flu Virus relative to a coffee bean?

It’s really small. Very cool visualization of viruses versus real world items like coffee bean and grain of rice at University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center.

Try it here It works like a microscope … just zoom in and out.

tip to Kedroskys’s Infectious Greed.

Steve Jobs Photos » Fortune

Dave W sent me this link to a gallery of Steve Jobs photo’s over at Fortune mag. It brings back a lot of memories for me as a Mac User. My first experience with Jobs and Mac was back in high-school where I learned to program in basic on the Apple II.

MacHeist – 5 Free Apps – ’til wednesday

MacHeist has WriteRoom, Twitterrific, TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs and ShoveBox for free for 4 more days . I think WriteRoom is a good app to try if you write a lot of stuff.

Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening

My favorite part of presenting the customer discovery process is a discussion of the attributes of listening that I got from Marshall Goldsmith’s “What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There“. This is a subset of the “Dating Skills for Engineers” presentation.

A big “Thank You” to Bill R for his presentation on the early days of the Saturn Development Group. Thanks Bill.

Listening Tips and applications of Customer Development

Here are some listening tips from Marshall@BusinessWeek

For those asking, “What does our investor pitch look like if we follow the customer development model?” Here is a great post, by the inventor of the Customer Development process, Steve Blank on Raising Money with Customer Development. I like his covering line

This is a radical departure from a traditional VC pitch. It will blow the minds of 70-80% of investors. The others will throw you out of their office.

My First Week – Burn the Biz Plan

The first reading always inspires me. It’s a Babson College study that concludes

“… there is no compelling reason to write a detailed business plan before opening a new business.”

Do Business Plans Make No Difference In The Real World? A Study Of 117 New Ventures — enjoy.

tip to Steve Blank for introducing me to this reading

Comic Escape To Blandings Castle

There are so many good quips. I’m particularly liking … “He (Elmsworth) may be lord of the manor, but she ( his sister Connie) has revisionary powers over his decision making”

I love PG Wodehouse’s comic capers. I’m currently in LOL mode with Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Uncle Fred is an amazing character. He brings a whole new dimension to the Blandings Series character set.

Telco 2.0 Indepth on Internet Stats

A few days ago I posted some tidbits on Google making up 6% of internet traffic.

If you want all the gory details. Telco 2.0 guys have it here Latest Internet traffic stats: Google and CDNs outmuscle Tier 1 Telcos

I like the contrast of declining “Revenue from Internet Transit Slide” with the increasing “Revenue from Internet Advertising”

Reminds me that this diagram still has meaning when analyzing opportunities in networking.

Fun With Your (Kids) Facebook Addiction » Bizarro

“The END of the WORLD came & went while you were on FACEBOOK” » Bizarro Oct 16, 2009

Gleefully Busting A Move

I love Glee. This week’s Bust A Move was great. I’m gonna have to break out my old vinyl. Yes, I was one of those people who bought the big single and played it to death

It’s here on youtube

Marketing Connects

Yesterday’s Marketing Supports Sales post reminded me of an old Marketing Connects rant I posted a while back.

The key point is that marketing people get the ball rolling, and keep the ball rolling so that “others can finish”. Marketing people fail if they decide/want to be the star. Their success is directly proportional to how big a star they make of others.