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The huge environmental wave described in the book Green to Gold has crashed onto the business world over the past few years and has opened up an entirely new market, the business of being environmentally friendly. Corporations who have been manipulating their customers’ wants for years are now becoming the manipulated market. Organizations like 1% […]
The next modern word entering the dictionary, after google, is “Netflixed.” To be Netflixed is to disrupt a previously successful business model, at least it is according to Saul Kaplan’s article for CNN. Netflix’s model of paying a monthly flat-fee for unlimited mail-in movie rentals was extremely successful, until they changed. A business model has […]
Before the release of the iPad or Kindle, Apple and Amazon were unlikely competitors; according to business blogger Joe Castaldo, they still are. In his blog post, “Lighting a Fire Under Netflix” he discusses how Amazon’s new product, the Kindle Fire, won’t even compete against the Apple iPad 2 along with Amazon’s likelihood of buying […]