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To grow its take rate significantly from here, Shopify would need to deliver a value it currently lacks: demand gen(-eration). I've written about the powerful combo of free software, marketplace services, and demand gen in my "business in a box" post a few weeks ago. Because 50% of e-commerce searches already start on Amazon, the incumbent has a... See more

The Metaverse is the Internet, w/ two differences:1 - visualization layer will be better. Today it's Google Meets, tomorrow it's augmented reality.2 - Digital objects will be composable and not stored in private databases behind APIs and T&C's.

So why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes, you need to put down your book, if only to think about what you’re reading, what you think about what you’re reading. But a book has two advantages over a tweet. First, the person who wrote it thought about it a lot more carefully. The book is... See more

We must understand, evaluate, and account for wholly new, non-monetary forms of ownership, and assets of great value that have extraordinary effect, but no tangible market price or mathematical means of measurement, such as participatory rights, alliances, systemic interdependence, and defined relationships, or else the stories we tell of our... See more

As online-first brands begin saturating the online market, the next phase to unlocking growth will be entering grocery stores. To get into nationwide grocery chains, it’s important to build a compelling sales story based on ‘online data’ to convince buyers that the product would sell.