Friday, July 08, 2011
Frank
Good Afternoon Rene,
I got your name through Susan in Mr. Ellison's office, Evelyn in Mr. Wohl's, and Julie.
I'm writing to introduce my company, Product & Market Development, Inc.
We provide standalone Products and Workshops, as well as a complete Market Validation System, for helping product teams concurrently develop new products and customers. We've been in business since 1987, and have worked for 130 companies including IBM, Compaq (DEC at the time), Intuit, Autodesk -- over 130 small. Our offerings are fully described and facilitated through www.ProductDevelopment.com, an ASP which is still in stealth mode, and is thus password protected. We're based in Santa Barbara and have an office in Redwood City.
I and three of my colleagues will be conducting a "road show" next week, meeting with prospective customers, eating some of our own cooking. We would like to come by and brief you on our products which are aimed at product and market development managers, i.e., presumably, people like yourself, to see if there might be a fit.
For additional explanation, the attached, non-public home page may be useful.
I will call you to follow up.
Thanks,
Frank Robinson
President
Product & Market Development, Inc.
805-969-3835
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Quote of the Day
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." By Leonardo Da Vinci
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Security
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
ATM/POS Fraud reaches new heights - is that a smoke detector?
Amazing but true, criminals are getting very sophisticated. Basically they install a skimmer on the door to an ATM, so when you swipe your card to get into the ATM vestibule (common in Europe), you've given the criminal a copy of your card. Then a micro video camera disguised as a smoke detector records you as you are keying in your PIN. All of this is transmitted via a cell modem in the smoke detector.
As PIN debit and shared ATMs networks are very common in Europe, the thieves can use the cloened card to make purchases and withdraw money all over the place.
Ah - yes - there is no good fix to this problem, other than covering the keypad when you type in your PIN.
Latest Bank Fraud Scam
As PIN debit and shared ATMs networks are very common in Europe, the thieves can use the cloened card to make purchases and withdraw money all over the place.
Ah - yes - there is no good fix to this problem, other than covering the keypad when you type in your PIN.
Latest Bank Fraud Scam
Labels: ATM POS bank fraud security
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Ringtone Disintermediation Part II
Following on my previous post, I've now opened my own ringtone store. All I had to do was submit the MP3 asset and 10% of sales is remitted automatically. This is a big step up from the standard aggregator offering.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Software Geek on Marketing
Let's build and they shall come ... right! | |
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Ringtone Disintermediation
It had to happen, why pay an aggregator a big upfront for a ringtone store?
Now these guys at JivJiv.com are doing it the Web 2.0 way:
Now these guys at JivJiv.com are doing it the Web 2.0 way:
