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A Schumpeterian moment, but not just for retailing

Paul Kedrosky is think­ing about the most impor­tant dat­a­point of this hol­i­day sea­son as a Schum­peter­ian moment. Retail data is indeed almost car­i­cat­ural. Phys­i­cal retail­ers are hope­lessly figh­ing for sur­vival while online retail­ing is accel­er­at­ing on its trend. Paul adds in another post: A great WSJ quote dri­ving home how this truly is retail’s Schum­peter­ian moment: Ana­lysts esti­mate that from …

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A few thoughts on Yammer, a twitter-like for organizations

Yam­mer is an SAAS clone of Twit­ter, pro­vid­ing pri­vate net­works for groups and com­pa­nies. See this post for a good descrip­tion of the ser­vice. When Yam­mer won the TC50, we wit­nessed two sequen­tial waves of reac­tions. The first was lauda­tory and praised a com­pany that found how to mon­e­tize a ser­vice like Twit­ter, where it had hith­erto failed. The second …

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