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Weakness in the Media Distribution Business Model

March 8, 2017 • Business Models, Features • • Comments (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 climes, I noted it with delight but avoided binge-watching all episodes. [&hellip...

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Better Living Through Artificial Intelligence: Applications That Can’t Come Too Soon

February 7, 2017 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

You probably heard last May about the owner of a self-driving car who was killed because he failed to keep his own eyes on the road. More amusingly, you may have read recently about the six-year-old girl who innocently asked Alexa to deliver a dollhouse,...

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The Advertising of Things

May 26, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (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, News • • Comments (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...

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Avoiding the Startup Letdown

January 9, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

I read a lot about startups with the Next Big Thing in the works.  Frequently I click through to see this wonderful new product and find there’s nothing there.  Ready for prime time?  Heck, the product would be an embarrassment amongst Saturday morning...

More Than Roads and Bridges

January 8, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (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, News • • Comments (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...

The Marketplace of Cloudy Ideas

October 10, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

CIO magazine looks to the day when cloud services will be traded like any other commodity.  Now it’s Nick Carr’s turn to feel vindicated, since this suggests that price competition is the only differentiator left to a Managed Service Provider (MSP)....

New York Is a Techie Kind of Town

October 7, 2013 • Business Models • • Comments (0)

Few in this town will be surprised by the conclusions of the study (reported by Adrianne Jeffries in The Verge) “Building a Digital City: the Growth and Impact of New York City’s Tech / Information Sector”. It states that tech is now the second largest...

Amazon’s Detente With Offline Retail Is Over

October 6, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (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...

A Machine Mind-Meld Might Be In Your Future

August 5, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

The New York Times published an article in their “Bits” section about the state of the art in machine-brain interfaces.  This technology may be more advanced than you realize.  The impetus for the article came from the announcement a couple of...

Thin Phones to Replace Fat Wallets

July 29, 2013 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Replacing your wallet with your smartphone has been one of those promises of technology, like flying cars or nuclear fusion, that always seems to be just around the corner but never quite lifts off.  Google wallet has made in-roads, Apple’s Passbook shows...

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