Category: Business models
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“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book
What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded any single individual’s ability to manage it consistently without error despite material advances in technology, boatloads of more training and super-specialization of functions and responsibilities. Yet, despite demonstrating that checklists produce results, there is resistance…
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How Facebook and Google will eat the Internet
Most cars on the my local motorway are Fords, imagine if Ford bought the motorway… This is a very important article on how video is changing the topology, function and power balance of the internet: TLDR: Google, Facebook, Netflix will own it. http://qz.com/742474/how-streaming-video-changed-the-shape-of-the-internet/
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Cocaine, hippos, Bitcoin and blockchain, an explaination.
Bitcoin is quite topical at the moment so I have written this post in case you are interested. What is money? Before starting a discussion about a currency it is help first to understand what money is. To do this we need to go back three or four thousand years when most of our forebears…
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Charge annual not monthly subscriptions
A nice article on why charging annual subscriptions often makes sense. Should I charge annual Subscription Fees? Or monthly?
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GPL as an anti-competitive tool
For some the GPL is a religion for others it is a business model. I have long been concerned that open source creates non-competive monopolies. In the 1990’s there were many webservers but in after a couple of years only Apache and Microsoft IIS remained. When I posed this to O’ Reilly (of the books)…
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How to manage your photographs
A challenge that I face at home and increasingly at work is how to best to manage digital media. Digital media includes photographs and videos (and some other viewable stuff) but in this post I will concentrate on digital photographs. My new favourite acronym is “CASE”, Copy And Steal Everything and as usual other people…
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A simple investment strategy – your age in bonds
After many years of investing my pennies and trying to beat the market I realised that it was all a waste of time. The evidence is that almost zero fund managers achieve above average returns. Therefore the best approach is to simply buy index funds that follow market performance and to choose funds with very low…
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The Apprentice: Sugar is not Lean
I have just seen the “Business Plan” round of the The Apprentice 2014 (Guardian review). I have always hated this round because unlike the other task based rounds it has little relationship with the reality of business as I know it. Everyone knows that the a start-up business plan is a fallacy and even before Eric Reis…
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Income inequality – globally down, locally up. Bad for the Brits
This is a very interesting article about the effect of globalisation on income inequality. It shows how the rise in income for the global poor is linked to the stagnation of middle and lower class incomes in the West. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/28/inequality_rising_screw_the_one_per_cent/
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What is the right p/e ratio for a tech business?
People who are interested in this sort of thing will be interested in this article. http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-created-equal-the-keys-to-the-10x-revenue-club/ I wish this article had been available when I ran a start-up during the first dot-com bubble.
Dr James Bayley 