In this week's New Yorker magazine, Charles Duhigg explores how venture capitalists may be harming our businesses. The article shares that instead of the best company winning, the charismatic charlatan with the most venture capital backing may be winning. In WeWork's case, the company almost won by reaching its IPO. Yet, even bottomless buckets of money couldn't save the company from the economics of office sharing--and its wildcard CEO Adam Neumann.
We have a few businesses in our retail ...
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August 21, 2019
August 21, 2019
Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher shared their ideas about tech, politics, and life last night at Conveneβs Liberty Place location. Iβve read Scottβs book The Four and like it so much that I shared 40 copies with retailers. I also recommend Scottβs recent book The Algebra of Happiness which is about life in general (and not as business focused as The Four).
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We try to keep our country honest by requiring transparency on some things. For example, you can not annonymously buy political ads and run them on TV. Which raises the question: Why did Facebook allow this to occur on its network of millions of users?
Bridge has always required users to verify their identity and nameβand even require a business email (instead of gmail or hotmail) email. Does this reduce our membership numbers? Sure. But it also increases the percentage of users that are real. ...
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December 15, 2011
December 15, 2011
Amazon.com hurts small businesses?
This article below is from today's NY Times. Amazon is now running promotions that specifically take sales from small businesses. Amazon seems to wish small businesses with physical stores would be 'showrooms' for Amazon's sales leads.
If a retailer knows of a brand that sells to Amazon, it may wonder why the brand is doing so.
December 12, 2011, 11:00 AM Amazon Denies It Has a Small-Business Problem By ROBB MANDELBAUM
THE AGENDA How small-business issues are ...
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