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Re:Hacking Traction: The Dark Side of Marketing Optimization by skmurphy on Sunday June 07, 2009 @11:40PM (#646764)
The Hawthorn experiments were run by Elton Mayo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_Mayo

A disruptive venture can be quantified by revenue (at least in hindsight).

Re:Hacking Traction: The Dark Side of Marketing Optimization by mspeiser on Sunday June 07, 2009 @11:44PM (#646768)
In hindsight...

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Re:Hacking Traction: The Dark Side of Marketing Optimization by skmurphy on Monday June 08, 2009 @05:49PM (#648074)
"Life must be lived forward but can only be understood backward." Soren Kierkegaard