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Part I of FIVE EASY PIECES: On Curation, Content as Experience and Federated...
By Gunther Sonnenfeld, with key contributions from Brendan Howley, Ishan Shapiro and Gavin Keech The following is the first of five posts on the evolution of the “Human Web”. “An idea not coupled with...
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Hyperlocal Business: Shaping the Global Economy #brandutility...
The core tenet of capitalism, and its original intent, is to meaningfully align business and society. In the marketing world, this has been significantly challenged by the need to grab marketshare,...
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The New Entrepreneurial Economy #innovation #business #culture
Imagine this scenario:Jane – a thirty–something mother of two, a career woman and one of Company X's best and brightest employees – walks into work one day with a surprise. She's been awarded the...
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Being Peter Thiel: Thoughts on Creation, Risk, Rapid Innovation, Future...
The following is the first post of a three-part series.CREATING A BETTER, MORE EFFICIENT SANDBOXLast week, I returned from Israel where I gave a talk on data, storytelling and intelligent media at an...
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Being Peter Thiel: Thoughts on Creation, Risk, Rapid Innovation, Future...
The following is the second piece in a three-part series. Takeaways from Part 1: - Culture defines business (and the best business opportunities)- Horizontal investments provide the most scale (and...
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Being Peter Thiel: Thoughts on Creation, Risk, Rapid Innovation, Future...
The following is the final piece in a three-part series.Takeaways from Part 2: - Funding ideas in their early stages requires a new kind of risk- Elevated risk actually provides greater access to the...
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Managing Creative Scarcity (Fighting the Unionization of Ideas & Innovation)
{EAV:EAVB_MVAUCKRWAH} A lot of what we talk about with respect to Internet economics deals with concepts tied to scarcity: The notion that coming off the heels of post-industrialism, demand is still...
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The Concept of "Buttressing" (An inelegant word to address tipping points in...
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”- Dr. Martin...
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Consumer Activism in the Social Era #innovation #networks #change
What does consumer activism actually look like? Well, for starters, if you can accept that people (consumers) do have some control over their commercial behaviors and outcomes, then we’re getting...
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