Cord Cutting is a Myth — But Will it be in 10 Years?

by Donald McMichael
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Mon­e­tiz­ing con­tent in a multi-platform world is com­ing of age… or is it they are com­ing of age? Dou­nia Tur­rill, SVP Client Insights at Nielsen pro­vides some infor­ma­tion for us to pon­der. Most impor­tant is that we need to under­stand that those most likely to jump from deliv­ery frame­work to deliv­ery frame­work are young, educated, […]

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Same as it Ever Was… But Worse

by Donald McMichael
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We’re not going to nail it. Noth­ing could be truer in this day and age when it come to busi­ness plan­ning. Under­tak­ing exer­cises in long-range plan­ning and fore­cast­ing assumes that the busi­ness’ con­tex­tual envi­ron­ment has a level of sta­bil­ity and cer­tainty… well at least enough to make us feel com­fort­able that we can range the […]

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How to Win Friends and Stifle Competition

by Donald McMichael
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If you’re King of the Hill and there is another that’s bang­ing on the front door you pro­tect your house (top of the line iPhone) by mak­ing sure that all your flanks are cov­ered. That’s the vir­tual role of the iPhone 4S and the line’s new pric­ing struc­ture. As pointed out in a New York […]

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by Donald McMichael
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Here is a Method That is Helping Niche Businesses to Boost Sales

by Donald McMichael
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I have the plea­sure of teach­ing entre­pre­neur­ship at FIT (Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy) in NYC. Being a New York City based busi­ness school cloaked as a design/art insti­tute pro­vides fer­tile ground for dis­ci­pline mash-ups.  The attached arti­cle from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up, Antwerp’s con­cept stores which dis­play and sell every­thing from clothing […]

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How to Build a Business that Works

by Donald McMichael
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One rea­son so many star­tups fail is that they either craft a busi­ness plan then shelve it at launch or worst yet slav­ishly fol­low it with­out adjust­ing when the ini­tial assump­tions are proven by the mar­ket to be invalid. Instead, entre­pre­neurs should take a page from the con­cept of lean man­u­fac­tur­ing and focus on “learning […]

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What to Go Public But Can’t: This Method is Helping Growth-Stage Concerns Experience a Liquidity Event

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Flickr Topeka & Shawnee County Pub­lic Library With­out a $500 mil­lion val­u­a­tion any busi­ness con­cern look­ing to go pub­lic is being forced to cool their jets. Numer­ous sys­tem­atic changes, dri­ven pri­mar­ily by the con­sol­i­da­tion of insti­tu­tional investors and the sub­se­quent emer­gence of multi-billion dol­lar mutual funds, has resulted in the stock mar­ket no […]

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