Did an interview with Canadian Business magazine that hit the newstands last week (do they still have newstands?). They asked three smart people and me how to make sure your new brand offering doesn’t go up in flames like the Samsung Galaxy 7. Here’s the piece followed by an interesting observation on how Google launches brands that they didn’t include:
Here’s what they didn’t print:
I’m a big fan of Google’s forever beta approach as they say in the piece. I’ve been an early adopter of things like GMail, Google Docs and Google Photos and AdWords itself and seen how they invite you in early as a beta-tester and then make it better and better. But the ONE time when they ignored this and failed consequently was Google Glass.
The first problem is Read More