The Book, The Millionaire Next Door, shares stories of successful parents who attained their level of success DESPITE hardship. They don’t want their kids to experience hardship like they did, and so parents help their kids out to fulfill their dream via money/housing/affirmations. Unfortunately, those kids never experience success because of the crazy plot twist: their parents attained success BECAUSE of hardship, not DESPITE hardship. We see this same effect in tech companies today: Google is “helping” Motorola to create a solid business by providing money/affirmations. Unfortunately, just like Microsoft’s online division, the opposite appears to be happening.
Here’s what else we talked about:
Apple will be covering some new iPads on Tuesday, Sono invents noise canceling windows, Premise Data Corp improves government data, Moore’s Law was broken, Apple hires Angela Ahrendts to lead their retails stores, Motorola continues to cost Google Billions, Greenbox is the Nest of gardens, Alion Energy uses robotics to clean solar panels, Microsoft releases Windows 8.1, and Mike Hopkins of Fox is the new CEO of Hulu.
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- Robot’s that clean and install solar cells can bring the cost of power inline with Natural Gas
- Google-backed startup seeks clearer economic signals through better, faster, stronger data
- Breaking Moores Law
- Google Fiber Now Explicitly permits home Servers
- IoT Startup Greenbox Aims To Become Nest For The Garden
- Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover”
- Apple’s new hire, a perfect match for the Apple Stores
- RJ Pittman leaves Apple after Apple store coup
- Windows 8.1 goes live
- Hulu officially announces its new CEO, former Fox exec Mike Hopkins
- Motorola is burning cash, and the only solution to stop it might be the undoing of an entire platform
- Motorola is Google’s Surface
- Android closes the monetization gap
- Google “Accidentally” confirms Nexus 5
- Noise Canceling Windows
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