Tag: business models

• How the Passion Economy will disrupt media, education, and countless other industries

  May 18, 2020

  [Clayton Christensen’s writing has been hugely influential on my thinking. So when Cliff Maxwell, Christensen’s former Chief of Staff and student at HBS, reached out to discuss my work on… more ›

• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users – Issue 25

  May 18, 2020

  Hello, and welcome to a free monthly edition of my newsletter. I’m Lenny, and each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• A luxury leather company is using a post-apocalypse art thesis to survive the pandemic

  May 9, 2020

  New technology is upending everything in finance. There’s not a lot of demand for luxury leather bags during a pandemic. https://qz.com/1851931/lutoff-leathers-pivot-shows-how-businesses-can-survive-covid-19/ more ›

• The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind

  May 3, 2020

  Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it,… more ›

• Pandemic Turns China’s Local Leaders Into Livestreamers

  May 1, 2020

  This warm salutation comes not from a seasoned online broadcaster, but from a 49-year-old rural official hoping to sell some sweet potatoes to his audience. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005557/pandemic-turns-chinas-local-leaders-into-livestreamers more ›

• Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play

  April 29, 2020

  The internet giant is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort, with its first original game, Crucible, to be released next month. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/amazon-making-video-games.html more ›

• Magic Leap’s $2.6 billion bait and switch

  April 28, 2020

  Two years ago I attended an “Innovation in Immersive Storytelling” event at Industrial Light & Magic, featuring the Chief Game Wizard of Magic Leap. I should have known then, from… more ›

• Chapter 2: Money, Credit, and Debt

  April 25, 2020

  Note: To make this an easier and shorter article to read, I tried to convey the most important points in simple language and bolded them, so you can get the… more ›

• IT’S TIME TO BUILD

  April 22, 2020

  Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not… more ›