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Podcasts are another example. There, meaning isn’t just expressed through language, but also through intonation and interaction. Podcasts are where a bad joke can still be followed by a self-aware and self-deprecating save. It’s a more forgiving space for communication than the internet at large.

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There is also opportunity for immersive programs in digital skills outside of software development. There are far fewer full-time programs dedicated to teaching digital skills in marketing, sales, accounting, finance, and design than in coding. Universities aren’t teaching Salesforce, Google AdWords and Marketo but those are the tools students need... See more

As adoption increases, there will be room for companies that organize the chaos. Once a sufficient ubiquity is reached, we will need to categorize, curate, and filter QR codes. The first of these products might look a lot like Pocket, just for the physical world. We may wish to store a list of books we want to read, the people we’ve met, or the dis... See more

As we discussed in last week’s article, Amazon – like Google – is primarily a search engine. But since all its search results – unlike Google’s – are products, it’s easy to rank them by price. If you already know what you want, there’s no point in searching on Google first. Your shopping journey starts and ends on Amazon.

In short, subscriptions are not a panacea. Price changes do not solve product/market fit on their own. But, if your product gets better with more usage, addresses a naturally recurring behavior, and has a potential “upgrade tier” of users, a subscription model could be very successful.

More than 90% of the population lives within 5 miles of a pharmacy. There are about 327K pharmacists in the US and 486K total primary care providers (internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, etc.). Medicare beneficiaries, who are more likely to be on a recurring medication, see the pharmacist twice as often as their primary care physician. T... See more