Sentences with phrase «is in their business models»

Listening to Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, speak on stage to several hundred attendees at the 5th Anniversary Gala last week for Innosight Institute — the non-profit that I co-founded — I thought about how Clayton Christensen and I have speculated for some time that the long - term future of much of educational content will be in the business model of a facilitated network, a platform in which users essentially exchange modular pieces of educational content with each other.

Not exact matches

In a market research note, Juenger essentially said that the traditional TV industry needs to be re-evaluated, and that its business model is in jeopardy as a result of digital competitioIn a market research note, Juenger essentially said that the traditional TV industry needs to be re-evaluated, and that its business model is in jeopardy as a result of digital competitioin jeopardy as a result of digital competition.

«There's plenty of giant watch brands, but their business models are stuck in the age of wholesale,» Kassan told me in a recent interview.

There was a Stanford research project that looked at startups in Silicon Valley and found that there were these five business models that most of the companies fell into.

That disruption is omnipresent because there are now tech companies everywhere in the economy — companies whose central missions are technology - centric, and those in other sectors that are making technical innovations central to their business models.

Several companies are moving toward hiring on - demand employees; some, in fact, are relying on contractors to actually sustain their business model.

Landscape architects are seeking to take advantage of a long - standing business model operating in the building sector to broaden their service offering and boost their bottom line.

«Thanks to smartphones we live in a mobile first world, and messaging is the killer app,» he said, «much to the benefit of Snapchat, the mobile messaging app with the rather old - fashioned business model ready and willing to take the place of TV.»

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that, sixteen years later, is pulling in $ 6 million - a-year.

In addition to the financial terms of the deal and the impact it is likely to have on Business Insider as a company, I was interested in co-founder Henry Blodget's thoughts about the sale — why he decided to sell, what it says about the editorial model that the site was built on, etcIn addition to the financial terms of the deal and the impact it is likely to have on Business Insider as a company, I was interested in co-founder Henry Blodget's thoughts about the sale — why he decided to sell, what it says about the editorial model that the site was built on, etcin co-founder Henry Blodget's thoughts about the sale — why he decided to sell, what it says about the editorial model that the site was built on, etc..

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewaIn the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewain a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

Consequently, freelancers are likely already playing an increasingly important role in your business model.

Strategic branding and creative agency Design Coup cut its fee roughly in half for coffee company Thrive Farmers, because it was so impressed by the startup's business model.

The «lean startup» movement heads to South America, where teams of entrepreneurs in Bogota are learning how to build scalable business models, writes serial entrepreneur Bob Dorf.

No business models are exciting 100 percent of the time, which means there will always be a need for someone to handle the minutiae in your business.

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

We talked to a lot of people who had never invested in e-commerce and ones who were scared of a tangible, inventory - based business model.

The world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when oil prices are low.

The company's business model is based on collaborating and developing bio-therapeutics similar to those already in existence, matching originator proteins.

With challenges like securing small business financing, creating a workable business model for your novel idea, and carrying out your project in real life, entrepreneurs are usually the -LSB-...]

Releasing their recent findings, LinkedIn found that only 12 % of professionals are willing to pay for digital content in the next year, despite the trend for publishers to use subscription business models and content paywalls.

«We are in early talks with several news publishers about how we might better support subscription business models on Facebook,» Brown said.

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that 16 years later, is pulling in $ 6 million - a-year

There are no late fees with most business models and the DVDs are mailed out in standard envelopes as subsequent selections are returned.

«Android already had a business model in place where consumers actually could try something before they buy it,» she says, pointing out that more than 120 Android titles are available to play on the Ouya.

It's a good first step for those interested in making money online — as are these online business models.

But in an era when businesses, insurers, and governments are increasingly balking at these charges — and when patients themselves are bearing a larger share of the cost — that model no longer works.

It's one of many Canadian startups in the financial technology (fintech) space deploying low - cost, Internet - only business models to disrupt the way bricks - and - mortar banks operate.

Cruise Planners, an American Express Representative, home - based business model is one of the largest, privately owned, nationally recognized and continually awarded cruise selling agencies in the United States.

These are more than buzzworthy ventures with youthful founders — they're strategic business models that may very well be on their way to iconic status in their respective sectors.

While their business models are similar, the companies are executing them in subtly different ways.

While a $ 200,000 cash injection from an angel investor might be a real turning point for your company, allowing you to push your business model to the next level, that sum might pale in significance to funding rounds going to other major players in the industry.

As Fortune stated in an article earlier this month, while the chain was once the envy of restaurant operators across the country, «the outbreak of foodborne illnesses that broke out coast to coast for five months in 2015 has permanently impaired the profitability of its business model.»

And perhaps worst of all, the export cartel model, the one that all but made the Canadian potash business what it is, is in danger of falling apart.

This has more to do with the change in business models that the iPhone maker is ushering in.

With respect to analyzing the sort of models that gets investors interested in pumping - in funds to significantly newer entrants in the financial lending vertical, More explains that it was the customer experience focus over which the business models were developed.

But in October — less than three months after its launch — Jet changed its business model and dropped its $ 50 membership fee it once said would be its sole source of profit.

It was also then that some of the biggest marketers succeeded with a business model that may still hold about an 80 percent share of the DRTV market: Find products created by a would - be Edison somewhere in America, market them on DRTV, give a small royalty cut to the inventor, and share the risk of a capricious DRTV audience across your product portfolio.

The consequence, says John Ruffolo, Deloitte's global thought leader for technology, media and telecommunications, is that «a lot of these companies had to bootstrap themselves and focus in on developing their business model.»

But make no mistake: Business is one of Benioff's passions, and by creating a new model for selling software he's been able to build Salesforce into a fast - growing enterprise with nearly $ 10 billion in revenue — which helps the CEO focus on all those areas that need his attention.

It just isn't in the business model.

One statistic that underscores the difference in these two business models: GE employs more than 300,000 workers, while Facebook's head count is just under 12,000.

The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures» worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci's first year since coming out of stealth mode.

Founded in 2007 by Zimmer and co-founder Logan Green, Lyft's business model is fairly straighforward, even if it operates in a legal gray area: The company recruits and (background - checks) city car owners to become become part - time taxi drivers, who set the hours they wish to work.

Authorities may introduce a system based on the Bitlicense model, developed in New York, Business Korea reports, but a final decision isn't expected until June.

Maybe there's a business model in that.

Instead, if I were going to grow your business with you, I would want to develop a store - in - a-store model, where I'm relying on somebody else's fixed cost structure and I'm not the tenant, I'm the subtenant.

When your business model succeeds in one market, rapid expansion is a seductive strategy.

Finally, it's probably an incredibly dumb business model to be doing a lyrics site that hopes for Google traffic in a time when Google, like Bing, is moving toward providing direct answers.

«The insight in our business model is that if you could be the hub, it's such a powerful place to occupy that you could make so much money off all of the spokes that you can give the hub away from free,» he says.