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Startups are increasingly building product features that depend more on a balance sheet of capital to differentiate themselves versus customer value that is unique and defensible. This creates feature wars that quickly become balance sheet wars when other startups or incumbents decide to copy these features. Free stock trading, hi-rate savings... See more

Here are screenshots of Amazon. Everything shaded in blue is an ad. No wonder they did $20B+ in ads last year. That’s more than 2x the revenue for Snap, Twitter and Pinterest...combined.

Although these activities still have their place, we are increasingly seeing a number of media outlets — across a wide variety of verticals and areas of content focus — exploring some of the wider opportunities that eCommerce potentially affords.

And maybe there’s a way to put consulting inside this research frame also? Ben Pieratt’s live pre-brand experiments are intriguing as as a new model of funding work and working in public.

1. Grab a notepad and create two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.


2. Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week.


3. For each week, jot down on the pad any  people  or  activities  or  commitments  that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns.


4. Once you’ve gone through the past

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Since low-quality information is just as effective at satisfying our information-cravings as high-quality information, the most efficient way to get attention in the digital age is by mass-producing low-quality "junk info"— a kind of fast food for thought. Like fast food, junk info is cheap to produce and satisfying to consume, but high in

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Cryptomedia and digital assets aren’t exclusive to music; they’ll rearchitect all cultural industries. Many of us were taught that because something is digital, it has no value. We were conditioned by the early internet to assume that everything online is free. But digital creations do have value; the system is just set up so that we don’t see it.