The Business A website aggregating twitter feeds for celebrities, with sophisticated search functionality. The Problem Having been recently acquired by a large media and entertainment conglomerate, their traffic had already triple

Principal Agent by Sean Hull The principal agent problem is a dilemma in economics. It occurs when a principal hires an agent to provide a service while both their interests are not aligned. It is further compounded when there is

Invisibility of Skills by Sean Hull I’ve spent some time over the last ten years getting more and more into fitness and training. Back around when I hit thirty, I was a little bit overweight, and out of shape compared to my twenti

Ownership by Sean Hull After reading about the Brooklyn Brew Shop in TimeOut New York recently, I decided to take a little trip to Brooklyn to visit their store at the Brooklyn Flea. The Brew Shop folks don’t make beer or that is

The Business A location based nightlife and entertainment company built on mobile smartphone platforms. The Problem The website was sluggish, and performance of the mobile applications were running slowly. Process We worked closel

Logic Alone? by Sean Hull I was watching an episode of the classic Star Trek series recently where Bones and Spock were having one of their usual debates. Spock was emphasizing rational & logical analysis, while Bones was expl

Cui Bono – To Whose Benefit? by Sean Hull When looking for root causes of the recent financial meltdown, the latin phrase “cui bono” seems to pop up here and there. According to wikipedia: “(’To whose benefit?’,

Preserving Optionality by Sean Hull Larry Summers, Director of the White House’s National Economic Council coined the phrase “preserving optionality” back when he was deputy secretary of the treasury under Robert Rubin

Open Insights Newsletter Issue 54 – Avoiding Path Dependence   April 1, 2009 by Sean Hull 2009 is in full swing.  Let’s put the struggles of 2008 and the last few months behind us, and take the downturn as an

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