First time at CES – I decided to go in order to understand better what I can do to expand our offerings on YouNeverCall.com and our other cell phone and tech websites. We get huge amounts of visitors but dont manage to turn enough of them into customers – yet. We think this is for two reasons.
1) The site needs a major upgrade – which we are doing.
2) We dont have the products that people want – many people just want to buy a cell phones.
In any case the show was interesting and I saw a lot of interesting technologies. – especially related to 3D TV in the home.
But the event also made me feel old. I could see so many young companies banking their future on what could best be summed up as a cute idea. Reminded me of my first few tech jobs.
Some examples: a ball-shaped mouse, various iphone stickers to personalize your iphone, plastics to put on your TV to make it appear to have more depth etc.
I feel like I have a much better sense of how likely a company is to succeed than I did some years ago…
So I feel like I have been around the block a few times – enough to identify other people’s naïveté about projects that will fail. Interesting that I still get into projects of my own that are bound to fail!
Interesting. Having heard so many ideas, I’ve also learned to identify many that will fail and I too still have some that I want to develop that may fail 🙂 It’s nice to know that there are things we gain from growing older. I think growing older gets way too much bad press. I mean, consider the alternative 🙂