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What Does Wall Street Reward?

A recent analysis said that, all things being equal, a heavy reliance on marketing spend will hurt a company’s stock valuation. Of course, we say. Duh, we think. But have …

What is Happening To Netflix Is Unfair

Here’s the deal. Companies are around to profit maximize – a corporate form of self-interest. For many years, this was the organizing principle of all commercial enterprises. The rules, and …

Netflix Pricing: What Not To Do

Netflix, a service whose adoption rate has been growing at astounding rate of 3.6M users a quarter, has changed the way we watch shows and movies at home. They are …

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly’s latest entry from ‘The Technium’ continues his take on the long tail. The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, …

Making Money via Mashups

Dial back a year or two and there were lots of questions about whether mashups supported a viable business model. Concerns centered around: low barriers to entry, copyright issues and the risk of someone else owning the data. While all are legitimate concerns, none seems to have derailed the mashup phenomenon.
So what’s going on? Do developers no longer care about making money? Hardly.