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Coolest. Video. Ever.

I’m working on Pray for Me, a Facebook application that allows people to send prayer requests to Facebook friends.

It’s a joint effort between two entrepreneurs in San Francisco, development teams in Venezuela and Florida, and me.

So why am I doing this?

1. It has potential to serve as a foundation for ‘request’ apps
2. It taps a very specific, passionate audience
3. It satisfies a need (bringing online behaviors offline)
4. And prayer is cool, man

I invite you to add it and check it out for yourself (Facebook account required, of course). Send me feedback, become a Fan of the app, write a reivew and send some requests!

1. Sean Connery
2. Harrison Ford
3. Bill Murray

Yours?

If you want a great business, take Coca-Cola. The product is unchanged, they sell 1.5 billion 8 ounce servings per day 122 years later. They have a moat; if you have a castle, someone’s going to come after you.

Gillette accounts for 70% of razor sales at 80% gross margins and it is the same over time. Men don’t change much. Shaving might be the only creative thing they do, like painting the Sistine Chapel.

Snickers has been the #1 candy bar for the past 40 years. If you gave me $1 billion to knock off Snickers, I can’t do it. That’s the test of a good business. You don’t knock off Coke or Gilette. Richard Branson is a marketing genius. He came in with Virgin Cola, we’re not sure what the name means, perhaps it turns you back into one, but he couldn’t knock off Coke. We look for wide moats around great economic castles. Growth is good too, but we prefer strong economics. In the upcoming annual report I have a section titled “The Great, the Good, and the Gruesome” where I talk about these.

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