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    Weakness in the Media Distribution Business Model

    March 8, 2017 • Business Models, FeaturesComments (0)

    No Longer Just King, Content Is An Entire Aristocracy – so Beware of Usurpers While on a short holiday in Mexico last week, I noticed that season two of my guilty pleasure, Better Call Saul, was available on Netflix.  Since I was on vacation in warm...

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    The Advertising of Things

    May 26, 2014 • Business Models, NewsComments (0)

    You’ve probably spent a little time thinking about what it will mean to have an “internet of things”.   Maybe within your industry you’ve even mapped it out, but outside of one’s own domain the follow-on consequences are...

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    Drone, Sweet Drone

    May 17, 2014 • Business Models, NewsComments (0)

    Entrepreneurs take note: the FAA is taking a business-friendly tack on the rules it applies to commercial drone use.  This includes plans to accelerate the permit approval process.  Granted, it will be about a year before the rules have effect, but...

  • More Than Roads and Bridges

    January 8, 2014 • Business Models, NewsComments (0)

    Obama’s observation to the entrepreneur that “You didn’t build that” is becoming increasingly accurate.  The “Open Data 500” is a list of companies that are using public data as an integral component of a business model or product.  There...

  • VCs Blunt the Cutting Edge

    November 12, 2013 • Business Models, NewsComments (0)

    Innovation depends on VCs who fund those cutting edge startups when no other investor will, right?  That’s what I thought too; but Steve Duplessie writing in CIO suggests otherwise.  His point, in a nutshell, is that ever since the IPO market dried up and...

  • Amazon’s Detente With Offline Retail Is Over

    October 6, 2013 • Business Models, NewsComments (0)

    The last few miles continue to be a problem for Amazon and its retinue of retailers, and since you can no longer get a package delivered to a local Staples or Radio Shack, there’s one less way to get your purchases.  It’s a shame that this useful...