Tag: business models

• The 13 craziest slides that show SoftBank’s vision for the next 300 years

  September 27, 2019

  In June 2010, the richest man in Japan revealed his latest vision for the next 30 years and the next 300 years. Masayoshi Son, the chairman and CEO of tech… more ›

• Why Goyard Remains Fashion’s Most Mysterious Luxury Brand

  September 15, 2019

  In 1854, Louis Vuitton was founded in Paris. Thanks in large part to its popular LV monogram, it eventually became the world’s most valuable luxury brand, with more than 460… more ›

• How Pantone Comes Up With New Colors for Its Authoritative Guide

  August 18, 2019

  This is just one of many color-related phrases that Pressman, who serves as the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, repeats like mantras: red is passion and energy; blue… more ›

• These are the shady tricks shopping sites use to get your money and info

  August 17, 2019

  Shopping websites have ways of getting you to do what they want, and the sneakiest design and interface tricks they use are known as “dark patterns. https://qz.com/1657890/this-is-how-shopping-sites-trick-you-for-money-and-info/ more ›

• Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

  August 15, 2019

  The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it… more ›

• Paradigm Shifts

  July 21, 2019

  Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradigm-shifts-ray-dalio more ›

• Readers, Families, Users and Mobs

  July 8, 2019

  Theo Wangemann (center), phonograph recording in Edison Laboratory Music Room, circa May 1905. NPS image 29-430-003. (Credit: National Park Service) Who do I think you are? When I sit down… more ›

• The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

  July 8, 2019

  In 2014, Rich Niemann, president and CEO of the Midwestern grocery company Niemann Foods, made the most important phone call of his career. He dialed the Los Angeles office of… more ›

• Yoox Net-a-Porter CEO: “We sit on a gold mine of data”

  July 8, 2019

  Almost 20 years after founding Yoox as an off-price e-tailer, and four years after a merger with Net-a-Porter that culminated last year with a €2. https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/yoox-net-a-porter-ceo-federico-marchetti-ynap more ›

• Bonsai Brands

  July 2, 2019

  The energy in the DTC sector is undeniable. In just about every vertical we see new businesses taking advantage of the evaporation of friction in launching an ecommerce brand. With… more ›