▶ They are made of recycled plastic! And because it's a subscription service, the bouquets always come back to the provider, @blaineboxco, rather than being thrown away. The prices look very affordable, the flowers look very beautiful, they also look real... but they are not real. They are ...

▶ By using the Gartner Magic Quadrant (I think the name overpromises a bit 😅) you can place your competitors on a two dimensional landscape. This helps you create an overview and a basis for your competitive analysis: who are your rivals, what are they doing, where are they going? This is a ...

▶ Turns out someone liked my PhD thesis so much they decided to award me a rare dissertation prize for it 🤓 It's not just a great honor, but it also pays my two months' rent 💪 My thesis topic was, surprise surprise, business model innovation 😁

▶ Cheaper or unique? Are you the Tesla of graphic designers? The IKEA of virtual assistants? Or perhaps the Gucci of social media marketers? Whatever your competitive strategy, you should align all your activities (and prices) accordingly to make sure you and your customers are on the same ...

▶ Safety at parking lots, malls and neighborhoods: Robots are still far from replacing humans in tasks like these, but they certainly have many advantages that make them a seriously viable option to complement humans and help in preventing crime. The robots made by @iknightscope use advanced ...

▶ Some time ago, Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb, shared some early investor rejection emails in his blog post on Medium. They asked for 150k for 10%. Eleven years later after their IPO, Airbnb was valued at $100 billion. Investors are not perfect. Nobody is. But this is a good motivation for ...

▶ I think this can become a BIG deal: anyone can make money by funding companies' energy-saving projects.
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1) The company starts saving energy or using clean energy, but it doesn't have to use a lot of money to make the transition.
2) The company's stakeholders are ...

▶ Remember MECE? If you don't, check out my post from a few months ago (How to analyse business problems?). This is a very (very!) important technique for you if you want to be a good problem-solver and analyzer. It's one of the first things you need to develop as a consultant and ...
