Those offering blended or fully online training already have benefited from the drop in in-person training and the incumbents’ difficulties adapting to online - companies like Strive (cohort-based blended leadership & management training) or Cultivate (manager training based on analysis of daily communications).
Vernal said this focus on nurturing community was key to getting a foothold in the product world. “It would be futile and foolhardy to try to compete with Microsoft and Google in a top-down way, to build a similar product and sell against them,” says Vernal. “Instead, they found a small group of really die-hard fans that carried the product with... See more
“The idea that we get our information as citizens through algorithms determined by the world’s largest advertising company is my definition of dystopia.”
"These subscription businesses have a revenue profile that is more like an annuity. This revenue profile is not like the manufacturer’s business that many people learned about from a college introduction to accounting class."