{"id":36,"date":"2008-08-31T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bradbushnell.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-08-31T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:39:37","slug":"the-private-beta-a-lesson-in-innovation-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"The Private Beta &#8211; a lesson in innovation and research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was taking notice of more and more private betas which was really making me frustrated because if you are curious about a new product or service, you want to be allowed to try it.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the effect that most companies are going for I get and understand. \u00a0By virtue of being a curious person, If I can&#8217;t even poke under the covers then I become genuinely upset and. . . even more curious.<\/p>\n<p>As I was getting ready to write this entry, I did a quick tap on the Internet to see if anyone was talking about this phenomenon. A great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/07\/12\/get-an-invite-to-any-private-beta\/#comments\">post<\/a> can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inviteshare.com\/\">InviteShare<\/a> which is a new service for locating these coveted and limited invitations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what really took me by surprise was the fact that a technologist blogger had begun building a version of the very service which he was cooking up in his head. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation, technical innovation is running at an exponential rate and you need to be very fast, otherwise, you will be second. \u00a0I<\/strong>f you have read Seth Godin&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Dip,&#8221; you know just how much that is worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was taking notice of more and more private betas which was really making me frustrated because if you are curious about a new product or service, you want to be allowed to try it. In short, the effect that most companies are going for I get and understand. \u00a0By virtue of being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-books","8":"category-technology","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}