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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #38

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picture: Flickr.com Commons As, always I’m looking to share with you quality information that helps increase our business development skills, enhance our level of business model innovation, and ultimately the quality of our professional relationships. While I never going into depth about the finds,

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #22

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While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. Reverse Engineering Facebook’s Business Model with Ballpark Figures Everyone has commented on the $50 Billion valuation placed on Facebook by the Goldman-Sachs deal. Well

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #21

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caption: The Amphicar was a German vehicle manufactured 1960-1968. photo from Flickr.com ‘The Commons”   While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. Five Strategies for Business Growth in a World of Customer

5 Fav Business and Strategy Post – October 9th

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Photo by داود Enjoy and please let me know what you think. Strategy is Not a To Do List Steve Blank gives us a gentile reminder - OK, more like a kick in the ____ - that we need to understand why we are doing the things that we are doing. Quite simply, strategy is not a to-do list it drives

Media Reforestation – the ‘un’ business model

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When you think about media business models the last thing that would come into your mind is the desired outcome being unassigned, unknown, and just plain old out in the wind. But this exactly what Steve Ruble believes will happen; media weaving an even tighter connection between those initiating the

New Publishing Financial Model; Pull Out The Old Number 2s

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We got it, the print news business model of yore is gone. Properties that can deliver more targeted results at a lower expense with quicker turn times have a way of prevailing. Now, Facebook is piling on... but wait it is also the key to a model that can save traditional publishing entities? Look

The Future of Magazines, Not… well Maybe.

2:11 pm

This article ran in was a recent post on the paidContent site. It takes a high level look at the production and expense implications (business models) associated with re-imaging magazines for the soon to be released iPad. Makes you wonder if specific publications can gain a comparative advantage if

Cross-platform media business model steps to the front

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Checkout this article from paidContent.. http://cnt.to/k9A "We’re trying to show how digital and other platforms, our magazines, our TV programming, all revolves around close interaction with our audience, and how digital is central to that", Janet Balis, MSLO EVP of Media

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