Tag: business models

• 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 ›

• Uber’s Path of Destruction

  June 18, 2019

  Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share… more ›

• Top 100 global brands 2019: the full ranking

  June 16, 2019

  The duopoly is broken. Amazon has displaced fellow tech companies Apple and Google, which since 2007 have held the top two places in the BrandZ ranking of the 100 most… more ›

• ‘Quality’ Is a Distraction – If It Exists at All (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 6)

  June 15, 2019

  The first lesson you learn when you start working in Hollywood is that everyone you know has an opinion to offer on the content you do (or choose not to)… more ›