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Re: Implications of the Rise of Non-Employer Businesses

BJ Fogg — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:11:17 -0000

Andrew,

You make a great point in your post. Our students were in an interesting situation where some were making more money than their parents because of a class project. Some were entertaining job offers and acquisition offers before the class ended.

It is an interesting time to be a part of the consumer internet. If you'd like to know more about the findings from our class, here are some slides from a recent presentation at the Graphing Social Patterns conference.

http://docs.google.com/Pres...

Re: Implications of the Rise of Non-Employer Businesses

andrewparker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:45:01 -0000

Very cool vision. And many investments to make there (for those who
subscribe to it). I'll dig into the blog, thanks.

Re: Implications of the Rise of Non-Employer Businesses

Ethan Bauley — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:45:28 -0000

Right...ya what Hagel is getting into in that article I ref'd over at USV is there will be 3 kinds of firms in "the future":

The first two will generally be enormous in scale (logistics) or scope (CRM):

logistics = (Amazon, especially FWS et al)

CRM (AdWords, etc)

All the rest will be smaller "product/service innovation firms" that invent cool shit and then plug into the infrastructure/platforms provided by the logistics/CRM

Clearly someone at AMZ is into this vision

That's my read on Hagel anyways...

I just started his 2005 book "The Only Sustainable Edge" and it is mind blowing. His blog is equally incisive: edgeperspectives.typepad.com