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Your app is worth more than 99¢

Max Effgen, August 19, 2009

Microsoft to mobile developers: Your app is worth more than 99¢ The business model of 99 cent applications is not good for application developers. There are many other issues with the iPhone development. It is refreshing to see another vendor take it on. Competition is good. Check the above link…

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amzn.com URL Shortner

Max Effgen, August 9, 2009

This is interesting and borderline funny. Amazon has created its own URL shortener for products. See TechFlash Amazon creates its own URL shortener for products. Basically the idea is to make it easier to post product links to Twitter and other social media. It has some simple rules and looks…

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Amazon buys Zappos

Max Effgen, July 23, 2009December 2, 2013

So the big news from yesterday is Amazon buying Zappos. Cash and stock and all that. Congrats to two of my favorite online retailers. The financials are one thing and will be debated. I believe that this will be a great deal for both companies. Also, the notion that Zappos…

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More zeugma please.

Max Effgen, July 20, 2009December 2, 2013

One of the great things things of print media pre-Google was the art of zeugma. It is economical. It makes you think. Unfortunately it has been a victim of the search engine age that makes most headlines vanilla as noted in a post regarding an outage at Amazon AWS six…

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Solid read on Bootstrapping

Max Effgen, June 23, 2009

Check TechFlash Guest post: Bootstrapping and the infinite runway by Hillel Cooperman. Solid read. Since the “at bats” phase is used, I like to think of Babe Ruth. He led the American League in strikeouts 5 times in 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927 and 1928. In 1927 hit 60 home runs,…

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Amazon’s private brands

Max Effgen, June 20, 2009

Amazon’s private brands have seeing renewed attention. Rollout of Pinzon in the UK and trademark applications for “Amazon Basics”. Pinzon has a bed, bath, kitchen and dining focus. The private brands have been around awhile. With other retailers making the move for cost-conscious wares, the fact that Amazon has been…

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Storm Clouds

Max Effgen, June 11, 2009

True story. Amazon’s cloud service disrupted by lightning storm. So many play on words possible, but this is the Google search engine age. Everything is vanilla. How unfortunate.

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Max Effgen

Max Effgen

Builds and grows technology companies as an entrepreneur and angel investor in technology, strategy, and clean power professionally.

Snowboarding, baseball, swimming, running, coaching, photography, backpacking and skyscraper stair climbs happen off the clock.

Also, I am a SABR Contributor, live in Seattle and from Chicago.

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