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June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 andreweverett360

Ritson’s 10 traits of a successful marketer

Matthew Valentine wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Ritson on the 10 traits of a successful marketer.

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June 16, 2021 andreweverett360

Matt Lerner says Personas are worthless for marketing

Matt Lerner  posted a thread on Twitter about personas.  “At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas. Here’s what we actually learned, plus what I now do instead.”

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June 11, 2021 andreweverett360

Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering

Michael Easter wrote an article for Men’s Health titled The ’20-5-3′ Rule Prescribes How Much Time to Spend Outside.

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June 9, 2021 andreweverett360

Marketing is an opportunity maximization game, not an efficiency optimization game

Charlotte Rogers wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Rory Sutherland: Marketers should see capitalism as a ‘discovery mechanism’

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June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 andreweverett360

Kurtosis as a measure of risk

I was looking at the definition of kurtosis on the Corporate Finance Institute website.

“Kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.”

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May 31, 2021May 29, 2021 andreweverett360

Leadership and the Taoist concept of de

Thomas J. Pence wrote a blog post titled Long Weekends and Leadership.

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May 30, 2021May 29, 2021 andreweverett360

Goodhart’s Law Rules the Modern World

Peter Coy wrote an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek titled Goodhart’s Law Rules the Modern World. Here Are Nine Examples.

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May 29, 2021 andreweverett360

I Bond – inflation-protected U.S. savings bond

Jason Zweig wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight.

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May 25, 2021 andreweverett360

Microsoft Excel for Real Estate

Spencer Burton wrote an article for A.CRE (Adventures in Commercial Real Estate) titled The Definitive Guide to Microsoft Excel for Real Estate.

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May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 andreweverett360

It’s possible for start ups to have too much capital

Annanth Aravinthan wrote a Twitter thread about starting UBER Eats. “Reflecting at my time at UBER, I do think it’s possible for start ups to have “too much capital”. I personally fell into two traps in retrospect…”

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