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Fordcastle LLC

Fordcastle LLC is company that is building new growth businesses in the MobileHealth and Longevity sectors. 

Our services range from trends-focused strategy creation and product concepting through to more operational activities such as business development new venture incubation. 

Our clients are mostly large multinationals who prioritize a flexible, multi-disciplined and collaborative approach to solving their growth challenges. 

We are headquartered in Soho, but have developed a global Network of experts, and work as part of larger teams with The Growth Agenda and Lodestar networks.

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Thursday
Oct132011

Finally, I understand what's wrong with Google+

There's something delicious about peanut butter manifestos and this latest one from Google is a corker. Here's Google+ nailed:

Rip Rowan - Google+ - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about?:

Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone. Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: "Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us." Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now? The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them.

 

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