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Selling pickaxes during the NFT goldrush

Selling pickaxes during the NFT goldrush

Surfing on the growing anger about Apple's 30% cut on the App Store, back in June 2021, Zuckerberg announced how he intended to monetize New Horizons (his new virtual reality metaverse project): To help more creators make a living on our platforms, we’re going to keep paid

One intrapreneur team, one project? Bad idea.

One intrapreneur team, one project? Bad idea.

I've helped design, worked with, visited, and oftentimes also rebooted many intrapreneurship programs since 2007. The most central and undiscussed design choice for these programs is that one employee (or a small team) will be their project's internal leader. With some common-sense rules and as light

The war for coffee is still raging

The war for coffee is still raging

After two years of a global pandemic, quite a few retail businesses show their weaknesses. As Warren Buffet famously said, you find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. Selling coffee is one of these markets that is heavily shaken. After more than ten years of trying

The obvious EV bottleneck

The obvious EV bottleneck

I presented last year how the systemic bottleneck analysis [https://www.icopilots.com/market-predictions-with-systemic-bottleneck-analysis/] was one of the key tools I've been using for years when discussing the future of any market. As a quick refresher: a systemic bottleneck is a turn point event that is building up

Amazon Whole Food: it's not about the store dummy

Amazon Whole Food: it's not about the store dummy

Only a few weeks ago closed most of its physical store's tryouts [https://www.icopilots.com/amazon-power-move/], but for Amazon Fresh and Whole Food. At the time, we discussed both the scale at which Amazon operates and their lust for automation. Right on cue, Amazon is pushing for

Is Glossier pulling a WeWork?

Is Glossier pulling a WeWork?

Glossier has been a trailblazer in the beauty market, and Emily Weiss considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of these last years. After creating Into the Gloss, an immensely successful beauty and fashion blog garnering more than 10 million views a month, in 2014, Weiss launched Glossier, a direct-to-market