Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’
The Argument for Limited Content
Note: Read past entries about Live Limited Surprise trend in content here. Today’s preferred Internet business model leans towards maximizing eyeballs for content and selling ads against that content, and also properly identifying smaller subgroups with targeting ads. We’ve been hearing about subscription-based models for a long time, but with few legitimate examples. Why would…
Read MoreThe Argument for Live Content
Yesterday, I argued that the future of content would be Live, Limited, and Surprise. Arguing that the future of content is Live is both the easiest and most difficult argument of the Live Limited Surprise trio. The problem is that we often see live as unscripted, and think of, say, reality TV as live content.…
Read MoreOn Virtue-Positive Operations
As usual, a disclaimer: there is probably plenty of research in this area that I am completely ignorant of. This is literally a random idea I had 2.5 hours ago while walking along the river. Yes, the .5 is there for pedantic purposes. As I write this blog, Lyft has already gone public, and Uber…
Read MoreRethinking Well-Known Concepts
Note: This blog was first published for the 2018 INFORMS annual conference. When we attend INFORMS, we usually we learn new things about what we already know, or experience new concepts for the first time. But I had an interesting experience in a TIMES session that made me think of another type of learning. Sometimes…
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