Hot Takes
This week, in the limited series on consulting I'm running with 30 of you, we talked about using LinkedIn to activate your network. I should have mentioned an article I wrote a few months ago about The Verge redesign. The Verge redesign matters (for us, too)The Verge
Strategy
I always found quite lazy the view on how Kodak failed despite inventing itself digital photography and even accurately predicting the rise of this market. I'm not going to try and convince you their 1990s management team were visionaries, either. But there is a fine line in the
Hot Takes
I've been discussing on and off how primarily digital was all about consumers' gadgets, pizza-delivery startups, and in cases of B2B, SaaS, and cloud. I'm not reviewing it all over again, but the keyword you're looking for is laziness (or efficiency, depending on
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One of the many paradoxes of consumers regarding innovation is how slow they are to react to what impacts them the most. The more critical a product is to them, the slower they seem to be willing to shift to new, better solutions. There's undoubtedly a "devil
Toolbox
I don't write enough about the luxury market, although when I look back at all those years, I've been pretty active on various (always exciting) missions. The sector's need for secrecy certainly doesn't help. But also, I'm coming at it
A recent LinkedIn post reminded me of an old book that was written back in 1977 about luck by Max Ghunter: The Luck Factor. And I'll be the first to admit such books are mostly wishful thinking if not plain crap. But Max, who was a Swiss banker
I rarely comment or (worse) link to websites discussing startup ecosystems as they mostly only report how much money was raised by teams X or Y. Which, in and of itself, as someone working on innovation and not short-term risky investments, bears no interest to me. But there's
AI
This week, I want to share something that surprised me –or should I say even me– regarding the pace at which AI gets embedded in different aspects of our lives. As my only remaining social network is now LinkedIn, I spend about an hour every day on the site to
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It's difficult not to consider the Y Combinator accelerator as the mother of everything startup for these last (nearly) twenty years. If anything, their track record is impressive, and their own marketing doesn't even bother trying to be smart or subtle. Facts are enough: "39%
Newsletter
This week we'll discuss the different types of strategic moats a business can build to protect itself from competition. We'll see why AI might bring in a new disruptive way to building business moats. A way that very few will be able to afford and that might change business forever.
I don't think I've ever reposted a comic, but because it's XKCD and it's about urban planning, how we deal with change, and Amsterdam, I couldn't pass on this one:
Hot Takes
Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH). This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% include