The Value Economy, AI Adoption Challenges, and the Pasta Revolution

The Money’s In The (business) Model

Katie Burkhart, co-founder of MatterLogic, explains how businesses can embrace a value economy. She shares five key shifts businesses must make to embrace the economy. These shifts include: Redefine why you exist, treat your team as human beings, and reimagine productivity. https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-show-the-value-of-your-agency-services/ 

Sometimes a business model or specialization is enabled by capital rather than customer demand or other more tangible factors. Or, in the case of zero interest rates, access to low-cost capital. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/zirp-software-engineers 

Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruption is that companies focus on their current best customers and improve the product for them. He says a new entrant comes in with a cheaper product that serves the underserved segment with an inferior product that is good enough and gets better over time, disrupting the incumbent. This article argues that expensive-and-great products prove Chistensen wrong. https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/what-if-christensen-was-wrong-about-disruption/ 

David Baker: “I’d be very cautious about adding a partner in the first place. Are you willing to be transparent about everything, including your own pay? Do you have disparate roles? Dragging it out sends the wrong signal…” https://punctuation.com/are-you-ready-to-add-a-partner/ 

BizDev, Baby

Bending Spoons, the acquire-and-squeeeeeeze kingpin that owns Evernote and a few other unfortunate businesses, has entered into an agreement to become the new owner of Meetup. Meetup has long been a useful bizdev channel for thoes wanting to intersect opportunity by being of service. Will be interesting to see what happens here over the medium term. https://www.meetup.com/blog/a-new-home-for-meetup/