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Technology Subversion Means You’ve Made it

Every new startup or tech company that enters a market faces the risk that it will be hacked and its technology subverted beyond its goal. Frustrated Tesla owners openly repair and hack their own cars: https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1048816630174765057 US Farmers trying to fight off John DEERE predatory

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Western brands still misjudge Chinese market

I’m still in the ongoing process of waking up a few of my customers (and the readers of this blog) on why the Chinese market is such a specific and fast one. Three years ago, I was pointing the inexorable move of the Chinese government toward clean energies, and

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Platforms’ Dark Patterns: Facebook Portal

In June, I was writing about « Platforms’ Dark Patterns » as a cautionary forecast on how the GAFA / BATX will evolve to sustain their constant push for pervasiveness in our daily lives. Today, Facebook announced « Portal,» an always-on connected home camera to keep in contact with family and friends… through the

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Understanding the Apple Watch

Understanding the Apple Watch is hard. In September 2014, Jean-Claude BIVER, President of LVMH Watchmaking Division (Tag Heuer, Zenith, Hublot), famously said: This [Apple] watch has no sex appeal. It’s too feminine and looks too much like the smartwatches already on the market. To be totally honest, it looks

😱 Are we still learning anything new about startups, or are we just pretending from now on?

😱 Are we still learning anything new about startups, or are we just pretending from now on?

After years of working with every kind of startup program — read: incubators, accelerators, tech clusters, public tech transfer, universities, entrepreneurs’ networks, corporate platforms, and various EU initiatives — I keep asking myself: are we still learning anything new about startups? For early stage startups, there are basically only three things to

You’re not competing on products

You’re not competing on products

A powerful statement from Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie FILS-AIME about what business they are in and who they are competing against: He counted the exact number of minutes per day and said that outside of the time a consumer spends eating, sleeping, working, and going to school,

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The most common misconception about innovation

As many professionals in my field, I get this question a lot: « What is the most common misconception about innovation? » The short answer is that most of the time, innovation is discussed and operated as a single thing. It’s not. It’s a complex blend of diverse forms of