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.
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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.
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The Embodiment of Business Innovation & Biblical Insight
Dan Wooldridge writes that the legendary Seattle restaurant, Canlis, is a model of the integration of a biblical worldview with world-class business innovation.
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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."
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Mohammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
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.
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Who will be my next competitor?
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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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
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tracking the rise of the amateur
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry, among other subjects.
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The Un-Nike $14.98 Sneaker
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?
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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.
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If Daniel Nissanoff’s FutureShop is right, there’s a $250 billion market in used household goods just waiting for auction.
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The Music Industry Takes Aim At Its Own Foot
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.
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An interesting note from the Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg on who’s serving whom in the computer market.
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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.
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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.
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