Poor Retail
SaaS, or Shopping as a Service is killing retail. If there was one investment or model that I would have considered safe forever – say 20 years ago, it would be retail. If I had, I was sure wrong. The Internet and sales tax laws are conspiring to make retail a thing of the past. [...]
Best Buy Smarter than the Apple Store
“There is an App for that” – is the mantra nowadays, and I really hoped for one, to solve the major task of telling me where I can buy an iPad. Anywhere, in any physical store along my long drive from San Francisco to Pleasanton. In the real-time, always-on age it should not be a [...]
Competing with Pirates
One story my University Professor used to teach about the limitations of a corporation’s executive team was about a ship in the middle of the ocean. On the ship was a rough, brawny captain who was rather myopic and hard of hearing. The captain and crew followed the principles of majority rule on decisions about [...]
