Chris Garlotta

The Loose Reins on U.S. Teenagers Can Produce Trouble or Entrepreneurs

These successes are rooted in the commercial, competitive, philanthropic, nonegalitarian and open nature of American society.

Freedom and Choice

To satisfy customers, companies ought to give them less to choose from; however, our western society is so focused on offering choice that this almost certainly seems like a poor business decision.

In Praise of a Blank Page

Every quarter, your company ships new products or services. And every quarter, someone says, "under the circumstances," or "given the deadline" or "with the team we had available"... it's the best we could do. I say ship nothing.

Time Poor and Time Rich

Broadly speaking, there are two types of internet users, Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

Big markets are a problem.

Huge horizontal markets have no echo chamber, no niches, no easy entry points. To make a system like this work, everyone has to agree on the technology and then there has to be a huge push to get millions of people to make the same decision at about the same time.

When Web Advertising becomes Brilliant/Invasive?

Web Strategy by Jeremiah ยป Has the internet really become so invasive that it follows us everywhere?

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy

The idea of a truly private life is already an illusion. Every street in New York has a surveillance camera. Each time you swipe your debit card at Duane Reade or use your MetroCard, that transaction is tracked. Your employer owns your e-mails. The NSA owns your phone calls.

Marc Benioff: I Know Marketing

Forbes interview with salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff

Getting Real : Development Tips From 37 Signals

Great insights into building a building a ASP software business

Big Oil And Its Cheerleaders

Why are the supporters of Big Oil trapped into this thinking that seems to claim: In ten years everything will be just like it is now, with the exception that it will be like that in more places? ...

About Chris Garlotta

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Chris Garlotta is a Product Manager at ProQuo, a San Diego based start-up that is putting consumers in control of their personal identity information