🟢 Does business research matter?
In a world shaken by so many struggles, we're starting today a short series questioning the logic and practices of business schools, academia, and executive education.
🟢 What the video-game market tells us about innovation trends
Netflix and the problem of running without flywheel
For digital platforms aiming to become a global business, the most obvious strategy has been for decades to just run ahead of everyone, reach critical mass as fast as possible, and lock in the market within your platform. If it works, you're a de facto monopoly and should
Public transportation is boring? Think again.
When you work with startups, you sometimes get the impression that everyone is chasing dumb pizza-delivery businesses that will make them rich overnight or investing in improbable moonshot technologies where quantum computing will cure cancer. The boring but important daily stuff? No one really cares about it.
If you want
What is the real survival rate of startups?
I often feel I'm the only one surprised that no one really cares about monitoring the real survival rate of startups.
Most public incubators in Europe will tell you they have around 20% or less failure after five years. But in 2012 a study financed by the European
The sameness disease
Before I embarked yesterday on rewriting my article from 2017 on The
fundamentals of opposable marketing
[https://www.icopilots.com/the-fundamentals-of-opposable-marketing/], I
initially just wanted to quote Tom Roach in one of his own articles called The
stupidity of sameness and the value of difference
[https://thetomroach.com/2020/11/
The tide went out, now Uber and others have to put on some pants
Since its inception in 2009, Uber has been the poster child of startups heavily subsidized by VCs to take massive losses until it's the last one standing. But thirteen years can be long for not making money, even for the most hardcore and aggressive capitalists. Throw a global