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The Customer is the Marshmallow

By Chris Gagne | Published: June 1, 2012

Many of you will be familiar with Peter Skillman’s Marshmallow Challenge, an exercise frequently given to teams and business school students. Teams of four are given 20 pieces of spaghetti, 1 yard of tape, one yard of twine, and a marshmallow. They are then given 18 minutes to build a free-standing structure that places the [...]

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Cheat Neutral and Carbon Offsets

By Chris Gagne | Published: May 26, 2010

This is a clever approach to parodying carbon emission permits. While I generally endorse the idea of carbon emission permits, I think the folks at Cheat Neutral have an interesting perspective that a) additionality is not guaranteed, and b) “offseting” a transgression does not necessarily make  it acceptable in the first place. Carbon offsets are “indulgences.” [...]

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Apple App Store Sales Numbers

By Chris Gagne | Published: May 16, 2010

From Bernard Chen and TechCrunch, an interesting summary about the economic implications of the Apple App Store for developers. For all of you App developers (Amy!), TechCrunch had a great article describing sales numbers for AppStore products. Of particular note: Across 96 developers who responded, the average app sold 100k copies over 261 days with [...]

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