You’ve probably seen the coverage on Unilever purchasing Dollar Shave Club for a cool $US1B… as one of the largest tech deals of the year it’s been written up extensively. This week I’d like to try a different tack and take a look at their underlying business model –...
It was probably serendipitous that in the same week that Video EZY St Heliers closed it’s doors for the last time I saw this graph floating around a few posts on LinkedIn. It was way to good not to share. This is possibly the starkest image I have seen of the new...
It seems there really is nothing new under the sun. “Corporate ventures” is a concept as old as corporates themselves.Traditionally a corporate venture is defined as a large company taking a minority interest in a smaller company, generally in a related field. The...
Call me cheap – but even as an Uber convert a 4.5X surge pricing warning will always send me to the arms of another… So when it happened to me last week my only problem was remembering how to get a cab. And I’m not joking… hazy memories of calling a company,...
We’re taking a slightly different tack this week – I want to get you guys thinking about strategy for your businesses and to offer help in this process for anyone needing it. Let’s get to it… Number one of the five strategy rules we looked at last...
