The Real Question Is Who Will Innovate.

Leverage Your Brand. You Shouldn't Let Two Guys In A Garage Eat Your Shorts.

There Was No "decision" Per Se To Re-position Myself. I Simply Decided That I Wanted To Write A Book That Would Help People Influence Others.

People Are Free Or Cheap. Marketing: Using Twitter Or Blogs. Cheap Or Free. Infrastructure: Call Up Amazon, Call Up Rackspace, Terabytes Of Data In The Clouds, Thousand Dollars, Two Thousand Dollars.

You Say: "i'm A Blue Sky Thinker." Investor Thinks: "you Have No Business Model, And You Don't Know How To Ship."

Look Back To The Old Days: People Bought An Ms Dos Machine And Struggled With It For Weeks To Bring It Up To Speed. Then Apple Created Macintosh, Struggled A Bit With It, But Eventually Succeeded. Then It Went Into Other Businesses. If Your Company Truly Wants To Change The World, It Would Make These Problems Go Away For Customers.