Comments on: Stop Funding the Obsolete http://www.infovark.com/2009/12/10/stop-funding-the-obsolete/ Digging the world of Enterprise 2.0 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dean http://www.infovark.com/2009/12/10/stop-funding-the-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Dean Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:51:07 +0000 http://www.infovark.com/?p=1703#comment-728 Thanks for the clarification, Gil -- I was hoping folks would click through and read your full post, because it raises several important points. Your examples of phones and business cards also touched a nerve with me. These are both things that we bought soon after starting Infovark because they're things "that <em>real </em>companies have." In hindsight, we should have waited until we had a product in the market and paying customers. We could have put that money to much better use during the two years of R&D work leading up to launch. Thanks for the clarification, Gil — I was hoping folks would click through and read your full post, because it raises several important points.

Your examples of phones and business cards also touched a nerve with me. These are both things that we bought soon after starting Infovark because they’re things “that real companies have.”

In hindsight, we should have waited until we had a product in the market and paying customers. We could have put that money to much better use during the two years of R&D work leading up to launch.

]]> By: Gil Yehuda http://www.infovark.com/2009/12/10/stop-funding-the-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Gil Yehuda Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:00:09 +0000 http://www.infovark.com/?p=1703#comment-727 Dean, Thanks for noticing my blog post and for tuning in to the challenge. Let me clarify that my main point is not to assault the value of the phone per se , but to encourage us to challenge assumptions about what we need and don't need. When we become mindful of these assumptions then we can make better decisions. And I thank you for reinforcing this message with your poignant story and concluding questions. You are spot on target -- let's let people use the right tools for the jobs they do instead of assuming what they need. Dean,
Thanks for noticing my blog post and for tuning in to the challenge. Let me clarify that my main point is not to assault the value of the phone per se , but to encourage us to challenge assumptions about what we need and don’t need. When we become mindful of these assumptions then we can make better decisions. And I thank you for reinforcing this message with your poignant story and concluding questions. You are spot on target — let’s let people use the right tools for the jobs they do instead of assuming what they need.

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