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This the the first of hopefully a series of talks on Bitcoin. The hope is to assess it as a disruption but first we need to understand the differences between a store of wealth, a currency and money. Then we need to…
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In a world where everyone needs to present, few know the power that lies under their fingertips. Whether one-on-one or in front of millions on TV, presentations are the primary means of persuasion in business. Have you…
When describing the process of disruptive innovation, Clay Christensen set about to also describe the process by which a technology is developed by visionaries in a commercially unsuccessful way. He called it cramming.…
This was initially posted on LinkedIn December 16, 2013. Innovation comes in many forms. Many times innovation is thought of as technological improvement or as invention. We can all cite examples of inventions which…
Horace unpacks the rumored, denied, and seemingly inevitable arrival of iPhone on China Mobile. Reflecting on smartphone adoption in the US, where does the unconventional logic take us from here? via 5by5 | The Critical…
Fresh off of back-to-back AirShows, Horace discusses the future of his “cinematographic” presentation style and announces Airshow World Tour. We also look at episode #103’s prescient prediction of Amazon’s move into…
In this episode we move beyond just talking about our pet theories of automotive disruption and interview someone who is doing something about it. Asymcar 8: The EcoV | Asymcar. If you want to know more about Toyota’s…
As automobiles become smartphone accessories, they become an interesting industry to study. Here is a recent (since 1961) history of the US market.
As previously noted, the US smartphone market has followed an almost perfectly logistic growth. The measured data (via comScore, in green below) follows a predictive logistic function (thin blue whose formula is…
The latest comScore US smartphone survey showing three months’ ending October data has been released and there were no surprises. Smartphone penetration grew to 62.5% representing 149.2 million users. I made a slight…