Last Updated: April 2026 Quarantined in a country that has been locked entirely (I’m based in Italy), it’s interesting to notice a few things. To give you a bit of context, the official spread of the virus in Italy started a couple of weeks back, when an entire local community in northern Italy was found […]
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Last Updated: April 2026 What Is the State of Business Technology? The state of business technology represents the current landscape of digital platforms, tools, and infrastructure — as explored in the economics of AI compute infrastructure — that organizations use to operate, compete, and innovate. This ecosystem evolved from the PC era through the Internet
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FINANCIAL DATA · 2025 Amazon Transition To Subscription: Last Updated: April 2026 What Is the “Swallow the Fish” Strategy in Business Transformation? “Swallow the fish” is a strategic framework describing the painful but necessary transition from high-margin product sales to lower-margin subscription revenue models. Organizations must initially accept reduced profitability and market resistance to establish
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Last Updated: April 2026 Amazon runs a platform business model as a core model with several business units within. Some units, like Prime and the Advertising business, are highly tied to the e-commerce platform. For instance, Prime helps Amazon reward repeat customers, thus enhancing its platform business. Other units, like AWS, helped improve Amazon’s tech
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Last Updated: April 2026 For today’s session, we have with us Rebecca A. Fannin who is the founder, editor at Silicon Dragon Ventures, public speaker, and writer for NBC and author of an incredible book which is called Tech Titans Of China. What drove your interest in Chinese tech giants in the first place? Rebecca
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Last Updated: April 2026 What Is Apple’s Business Growth Strategy for 2020? Apple’s 2020 business growth emerged from a strategic pivot away from iPhone dependency toward a diversified revenue model combining hardware innovation and high-margin services. Following fiscal year 2019’s iPhone sales decline, Apple repositioned itself as an ecosystem company, expanding wearables, services, and Mac
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Last Updated: April 2026 Neal Schaffer, Digital and Social Media Marketing Speaker & Consultant and Author of the upcoming book “The Age of Influence” (you can also follow him on his blog) is sharing with FourWeekMBA some of the key digital marketing trends for 2020! Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself
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Last Updated: April 2026 What Is Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Origin Strategy? Jeff Bezos’s origin strategy for Amazon represents a deliberate business model selection based on explosive internet growth trends, category selection logic, and obsessive customer focus rather than profitability. In June 1997, at age 33, Bezos articulated how he identified a 2,300% annual web usage
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Last Updated: April 2026 For today’s session, we are here with Johan Nylander, which is a China correspondent, award-winning author of Shenzhen Superstar. With Johan, we’ll look at the key ingredients that made Shenzhen successful. What drove you to research Shenzhen tech landscape? Johan Nylander: I can explain why I became so fascinated in the
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Last Updated: April 2026 I met for the first time Nir Eyal, at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, back in 2017. I already knew Nir for his book “Hooked” and ever since I’ve followed him, as Nir is the best resource when it comes to building up engaging products, and also a go-to source
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Last Updated: April 2026 Back in February 2018, Google launched Google Trips. As Google explained at the time: Planning a trip involves lots of searching for flights, hotels, things to do, itineraries and more. The process is often cumbersome because we have to use multiple tools to gather everything we need—especially on a mobile phone.
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Last Updated: April 2026 Building up a business from scratch it’s not an easy feat. Although most people don’t know otherwise, there is another fleet of business people out there that have mastered the art of buying and selling other businesses. Not only buying an existing business might give you a head start, but it
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Last Updated: April 2026 What Is the Smart Speaker Market Share War? The smart speaker market share war represents the competitive battle among technology giants—primarily Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft—to dominate voice-activated device distribution and control the emerging voice search ecosystem. This competition determines which platform becomes the default interface — as explored in the
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Last Updated: April 2026 Today we have here, Allen Gannett. He’s the Chief Strategy Officer of Skyword, founder of TrackMaven, which is a big data analytics company; and he’s also the author of “The Creative Curve“. A book that I loved and I suggest everyone reading it. And today we’re actually going to explore with
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Last Updated: April 2026 There are about 50% of businesses that survive more than 5 or 10 years in operation. Unfortunately, an approximate 20% of newly established businesses will fail within one year of operations. Background story The role of entrepreneurs in the economy of the United States is vital. New businesses are the contributing
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Last Updated: April 2026 What Is Reading as a Strategic Business Tool for Unconventional Entrepreneurs? Reading foundational business literature serves as a compressed knowledge transfer mechanism, enabling unconventional entrepreneurs to absorb decades of real-world experience, psychological insights, and strategic frameworks within weeks. This practice bridges the gap between theoretical understanding and practical application, creating a
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Last Updated: April 2026 In 2015 I started to blog. Coming from a different industry (I was a financial analyst for a real estate investment firm) I didn’t know where to start. Only after many trials and errors, I understood a few things. Now, after a few years, I identified five critical issues and hurdles
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12 tools, which are available as Google Extension to help you fire up your online business, or to use online strategies to boost your business offline.
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Last Updated: April 2026 The Value Mix: Create Meaningful Products and Services for Your Audience is a book by Guerric de Ternay. I invited Guerric to join us for an interview. The topic is business design and value proposition design! Those topics are the foundation of any business and business model. Let’s jump to it! Disclosure:
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Last Updated: April 2026 The year 2018 hasn’t been an easy one for Facebook Inc. Going through several scandals, Mark Zuckerberg was called to Congress, and over and over again we heard the story of a growing number of users leaving the platform. For that matter in this report, we dissect the critical numbers of
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