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Flipboard, iPad, and Customer Experience

Post author:David Greer
Post published:November 25, 2010
Post category:Customer Service Marketing
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Earlier this year, I wrote about my new iPad computer. I continue to really enjoy my iPad. The user experience is fantastic. I have slowly been adding more applications to enhance that experience.

Recently, my friend Ron Seybold from Bites of Apple told me about Flipboard for the iPad. Flipboard takes your Facebook and Twitter feeds and lays them out in a magazine format. For tweets, any URL links are automatically dereferenced and made part of your magazine experience.

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Early Exits: What Investors and Entrepreneurs Should Know

Post author:David Greer
Post published:July 22, 2010
Post category:Business Strategy
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In the book Early Exits Basil Peters makes a persuasive case that both entrepreneurs and early stage investors should start planning their exit strategy from the very beginning. For technology…

Learning from the Past

Post author:David Greer
Post published:July 3, 2010
Post category:Business Strategy
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Thomas Hellman is the Director of the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Center at the University of British Columbia. Thomas is a keen observer of entrepreneurs. He…

The iPad — My First Apple Computer

Post author:David Greer
Post published:June 9, 2010
Post category:Business Customer Service
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I recently bought an iPad. I have a lot of friends who have switched from a MS Windows laptop to a Macbook. I thought the iPad might be a kindler, gentler introduction to an Apple user experience for me. At least that’s the rationalization I give anyone who will listen. The real reason is that I got tired of doing all the technical support in our house and everyone else getting the new toys. Both my sons were jealous of my new iPad — mission accomplished.

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Volunteering at Free Geek

Post author:David Greer
Post published:April 30, 2010
Post category:Community
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Allen Greer at Free Geek Vancouver — Allen Greer Volunteers at Free Geek Vancouver

My son Allen and I have started volunteering at Free Geek Vancouver. Free Geek was founded to ethically recycle computers. While there are organizations that will recycle computers, many of them ship the computers off shore or otherwise violate internation conventions for the recycling of hazardous materials (computers have many). Not only does Free Geek insure that dead computers are recycled ethically and according with international conventions, it takes working computers and rebuilds them, offerring them for sale at very low prices. Most of the customers in the Free Geek Vancouver store come from Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, the poorest neighborhood in Canada.

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