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  1. The Critical Path #139: The Great Gap

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    Horace and Anders discuss the current uncertainty in the commodities markets and take a look at the logical segments of the adoption curve. Could the conventional wisdom between invention and product in the market be…

  2. Bigger than Hollywood

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    Apple paid $10 billion to developers in calendar 2014. Additional statistics for the App store are: Putting these data points together with others from previous releases results in a fairly clear picture of the…

  3. The Critical Path #138: The Critical MBA

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    Horace and Anders discuss this years CES, Apples record $25B in payments to developers as well as the initial installment of the Critical Path MBA. How is business taught in schools? What is a business school graduate…

  4. The Critical Path #137: The Inception

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    Can we measure the time between inception of an idea and the disruption it later causes in the market? Startups are there to discover a job nobody sees yet but not all laboratory experiments make it to commercialization.…

  5. The Monopolist

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    When the Apple Watch will begin sales, there will have been dozens of “smart watches” released. At CES this week at least 56 “wearables” were on display. One could be forgiven for thinking that Apple’s Watch will compete…

  6. Biggest news of 2014

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    As corporate romances go, IBM and Apple’s must rank among the most unexpected. As I wrote on the date they changed their Facebook status, the two companies were antagonists for the better part of twenty years and their…

  7. Asymcar 20: Iconic Design

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    I recall details of a recent Tesla Model S test drive while evaluating their innovation on jobs to be done, form factor, design, production methods and their business model. (Also, other goings on with Uber, BMW and…

  8. The Critical Path #135: Fruit Fly Analysis

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    Horace outlines his work at The Clayton Christensen Institute and sets out a number of topics for upcoming shows. We also revisit YouTube and the art of self promotion. via 5by5 | The Critical Path #135: Fruit Fly…