Intuitive Stories

As an author of many business and tech books — check out my author page at Amazon.com — I’m always interested in hearing about the creative process with other authors. Here’s how G. David Thayer has managed his writing projects, including his latest historical title about the S.S. Vestris… Q: Tell me about the latest book […]

There are few things guaranteed to generate more mixed messages from your customer base than a logo update, but smart companies proceed regardless and just accept that complaints and criticism is just part of the journey of updating or changing a company’s appearance. The latest company to experience the slings and arrows of this outrageous […]

Super Bowl 50 was a good game of football between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, but, to be frank about it, not a great game. There were some good plays, but the game revolved around errors and mistakes much more than it featured great plays and exciting completions. Heck, I don’t think there […]

When Shanthan posted in the Facebook Amazon Echo group that he’d written a game for the Echo because of his son’s love for the device, I was interested to learn more. The result is this interview. Enjoy! How did you become an Echo developer? Is there a Web site where you had to sign up […]

Sometimes when a consumer product becomes popular there are unexpected consequences to its success, use cases that customers find that weren’t part of the planning or testing phase of the manufacturer. Rarely, though, does an entire category of products end up a spectacular fail, but that’s just what’s happened in the last 45 days with hoverboards, […]

Shaun Murphy is an expert on communication security and has focused on online credit card fraud and transaction safety for the holidays. He was kind enough to answer a few questions about how to shop online – and stay safe – during the upcoming shopping frenzy, and his answers are most interesting… Q: Most people […]

When Arxan Technologies shared its research findings on the state of application security and how piracy is adversely affecting vendor sales and success, my interest was piqued and I asked if I could interview someone on the team about the findings. Here’s my interview with Chief Marketing Officer Patrick Kehoe about piracy, mobile platforms, and related. Read […]

Apple announced that it sold a staggering 13 million iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus on launch weekend, a three day period from Friday morning until Sunday night, September 25, 26 and 27. I know, I popped by the Boulder Apple Store on the morning of the 25th and saw the faithful lined up, waiting […]

I’m fascinated by the ingenuity behind the latest virus to show up on the Internet, malware that targets people who play online poker through Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker. It lurks in the background and when those users are actually playing it spies on their hand and reports what they’re holding to a central server, […]

Movies make it look easy, you just press a pilfered key into clay, both sides, then without any further fuss, you can make as many perfect duplicate keys as you’d like. Slip the original back before they notice and you’re in, free and clear. Problem is, it’s not actually quite that easy to make a […]

Traditional game companies don’t have a corner on the game market like they used to years ago. Mattel, Hasbro, you know the big players with their Monopoly, Clue, Trouble, Candyland, etc. But board games is a much bigger business now and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter have completely changed the way that games come to market. […]

When Altius Management managed to land full funding for its Asylum Playing Cards kickstarter campaign, raising $25,146 of its $15,000 goal to create some scary playing cards at $9/deck back in 2012, it had no idea how difficult the journey to fulfillment would be. In fact, by spring of 2013 (after promising delivery to backers […]

When business author Mitch Vandell contacted me, I was intrigued by the title of his new management book “Bargepole Management“. I know what a barge is, I know what a bargepole is by extension, but what does it all have to do with management and career strategies? To find out more, we had a conversation […]

I get a remarkable number of pitches from sales people associated with online marketing companies and in almost all the cases, the only information I have to go on is the message itself. Is it well written? Does it suggest that they have even half a clue about what my business is about? Do they […]

In the category of “it’s always important to think through the actions that your legal team is recommending” I submit the latest in the troubled relationship between Apple Computer and Beats Audio, from the Wall Street Journal: Apple Revokes Monster’s Authority to Make Licensed Accessories. Why is this happening? Because Monster forgot that when Apple […]