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Aug
12
📺 Anticipating network effects in the eighties
As much as network effects have been the beating heart of the digital wave that submerged most markets since the
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Aug
11
🔴 Does innovation deliver progress? (It's complicated)
We collectively still conflate progress and innovation. Not that progress doesn't exist, but it's anything but an immutable law of physics, like gravity or the speed of light. Here are my two cents on science, technology, innovation, and progress.
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Aug
10
◼️ Innovation Micro-interview #5 - Jay LATTA, Munich
A series of micro-interviews from people we work with. Partners in crime, current or former customers, all have a unique view on innovation and the current zeitgeist. Five questions on innovation, short answers. We might agree, we might disagree. No context, no comments.
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Aug
09
💼 How e-commerce is still confusing incumbent big retailers
I just read about an intriguing signal about incumbent big retailers. The TL;DR is that companies like Nordstrom or
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Aug
08
🥸 Is the startup craze coming to a halt?
In an unexpected move, Y Combinator, the historic mothership of the startup economy, will downsize its next wave of startup
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Aug
05
🔴 The Romanesco effect: Reimagining, Diversification, and Reduction.
We make a lot of fuss about innovation frameworks and strategies, whereas innovation is a simple mechanism. It's about Reimagining, Diversification, and from time to time a rare but groundbreaking Reduction.
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Aug
04
🛒 Why inflation is an unprecedented challenge for tech
Most of what is call the tech sector that went under explosive growth these last ten years has been built
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Aug
03
◼️ Innovation Micro-interview #4 - John EGAN, Paris
A series of micro-interviews from people we work with. Partners in crime, current or former customers, all have a unique view on innovation and the current zeitgeist. Five questions on innovation, short answers. We might agree, we might disagree. No context, no comments.
2 min read
Aug
02
🧨 Another signal of Intel's demise
Last March, I suspected Intel was already dead, but that given its size and momentum, it would take a few
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Aug
01
😎 Remote work? It sticks.
An interesting strong signal today is about a second order of consequences of Covid-19. If we still don't know how
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