The ‘Trend of Convenience’ doesn’t make things more convenient. Instead it mostly eliminates limitations that prevent change from happening in the first place. Take the horse carriage versus the car. Many people think of the car as a more convenient horse carriage, but why is that? Is it because it’s faster? Is it because it’s …
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Startup lessons from a crime boss
Interesting things happen when we cut out the middleman. In addition to reducing cost, we often end up creating an internal byproduct that can be productized and sold to a completely new customer. (Amazon Web Services is an example of this.) Sometimes the middleman’s market is so huge, that a freaking enormous business can be …