How is a Business Ecosystem a Key Driver to Success?

By SmallBizClub | Aug 6, 2015

In a Harvard Magazine interview, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, explained: “In Silicon Valley, there is a sense that you prosper only because you’re surrounded by lots of resources that make it possible to succeed, beyond what your own entity controls. Think of it as your garden,…

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What Uber Is and Isn’t—and How You Can Benefit

By Susan Solovic | Aug 5, 2015

Uber is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it certainly has accomplished a lot in five years. It’s hard to imagine another company that has so quickly established a global presence. The last figures I saw said that Uber operates in 300 cities strewn across 58 countries. Let’s compare it to Starbucks, which certainly has an…

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Are You Blockbuster or Netflix?

By Redshift | Jul 22, 2015

Kodak missed the digital revolution, and, like aging photos, faded with time—despite the fact it actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. Meanwhile, new and dynamic product categories for cameras, printers, accessories, and more were born and continue to flourish. Then there’s Blockbuster. “Be kind, please rewind”? Not so much for this company, which…

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The Sharing Economy and Your Business

By Jania Bailey | Jul 7, 2015
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There’s a brand new world of transactions forming and it’s named the sharing or collaborative economy. The standard definition of this new trend is an economic model for individuals to borrow or rent assets owned by someone else.
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