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Dan Wooldridge reports on Stephon Marbury's launch of the Starbury One sneakers for $14.98. Can Marbury's example challenge us to seek opportunities that counter a rampant consumer culture?
At 35, Loïc Le Meur has carved a niche by ignoring business conventions, respecting competitors, building relationships and learning his lessons out in the open.
Jim Hancock / Dec 12 2007
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Jim Hancock discusses the future of the music industry in light of an interview between Wired magazine and Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris.
Jim Hancock / Dec 5 2007
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Dan Wooldridge writes that the legendary Seattle restaurant, Canlis, is a model of the integration of a biblical worldview with world-class business innovation.
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry, among other subjects.
Sam Nguyen / Sep 2 2006
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Dan Wooldridge writes about the microcredit breakthrough innovation of Mohammad Yunus and Grameen Bank. A challenge for followers of Christ to think about business innovation from the perspective of the Kingdom of God.
Dan Wooldridge notes that rigid thinking about your business model may make you susceptible to competitors that you didn't see coming. Current examples show how fierce competitors can come from surprising directions.

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Chris Anderson's new book, The Long Tail, makes Harvard Business School's James Heskett wonder what happens when the economics of scarcity meets the economics of abundance. Mr. Heskett's answer, while capturing many of the details, may miss the point.
Jim Hancock / Aug 17 2006
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Two years after launching a universal book-scanning program that set a lot of publishers teeth on edge (and sent some running to their lawyers), Google is getting credit for turning "searchers into consumers."
Jim Hancock / Oct 25 2006
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The film industry has been where the music business was -- making it difficult to download digital movies even as hackers and pirates demonstrate how easy it really is. It's time to face the music
Jim Hancock / Sep 16 2006
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What internet space logged more page views in August (9.4 billion) than Google? That would be MySpace.com -- the upstart web company that is part Friendster, part Blogger, part MP3.com, part craigslist.
Jim Hancock / Dec 16 2005
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The eBay phenomenon is giving rise to a shift from an accumulation culture to an auction culture where a new norm of “temporary” ownership is taking hold. People are able to constantly “trade up” because they will simultaneously be selling off what they no longer want.
Rolling Stone and the Associated Press tell us something we know and something we don't about the uneasy relationship between the music industry and it's volatile customers.
Jim Hancock / Feb 17 2006
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Some people laughed when Google went public with their plan to fight evil and make the world a better place. They're not laughing anymore.
Jim Hancock / Jun 29 2005
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An interesting note from the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg on who's serving whom in the computer market.
Jim Hancock / Jan 7 2006
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