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- Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996
- At the recent SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards, Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's top VCs, gave an inspiring and very humble speech. How To Succeed In Silicon Valley By Bumbling And Failing... Afterwards, I...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Business Model, Vinod Khosla, Foremski, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies
- Last week my Saturday Post was about how Internet based technologies have been used to create applications and services that devalue existing business models. It's a hugely disruptive process. [The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .] This trend is occurring because it can occur -- because...
- Tags: Craigslist, Business Model, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- The cure for YouTube's ills: Charge for uploads
- Business models that revolve around "free" are never free since someone always foots the bill. Meanwhile, far more companies think they have more growth and scale to lower costs than they actually do. YouTube may be one of those companies that merely thinks it has the scale to eventually make...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Business Model, Video, Jeffrey Lindsay, Hulu, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model
- Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business modelGluttons for punishmentSo the Conlicker botnet only runs on Windows PCs? How long must Windows users put up with this stuff before Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows and starts over. I just don't understand why they can't make an OS without all...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Conficker, business model, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Twitter still has no business model, and that's OK
- Twitter still has no business model, and that's OKThey already have a business model.It's called duping investors of their money...
- Tags: Strategy, business model, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?
- Health turns out to have a lot in common with auto mechanics. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Model, Health Care, C|Net, Trinity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Avalere research demonstrates business model point
- Avalere research demonstrates business model pointCall it "subsidized fee for service"The existing system is not a pure fee for service system which IMHO would be sustainable. but a fee for service system subsidized by employer and government provided health insurance. Since the price of anything is directly proportional to...
- Tags: Strategy, Channel management, Insurance, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Avalere, business model, service system
- Discussion threads 2009-03-11
- Avalere research demonstrates business model point
- Someone needs to talk straight with the American people. The present fee-for-service business model of medical practice is doomed. It is unsustainable. Call it Medical Home, call it coaching, call it the new Medicare, but medicine is moving to a per-patient wellness business model, one in which good healthIT is...
- Tags: Medicare, Business Model, Health Care, Avalere, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- HealthIT benefits tied to changing business models
- The main goal of health reform is to transform business models. HealthIT is a carrot, it makes the new model profitable. But how many doctors will cross the business model bridge? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Business Model, Health Care, HealthIT, Strategy, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- How to make freemium pay
- At the heart of a 'freemium' business model is a notion that makes me viscerally uncomfortable: giving something away for nothing. But in the right hands, it can work well. Here are three examples of how it can work for SaaS providers serving the business market. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Premium Service, Business Model, Service, Helpstream, SlideRocket, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Will telcos ever embrace open source?
- Will telcos ever embrace open source?You're not really discussing open source here.You're talking about the business model for the delivery of information.So when you write:The Internet itself grew up in defiance of the telcos. Its business model is anathema to them. Thus telcos and cable operators do all they can...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, open source, telecommunications company, Internet, cable, business model
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- Everyday Health and the selling of trust
- Whenever some ink-stained wretch goes on the TV to tell me how journalism is dead, I laugh. Journalism -- the organizing and advocating of a place, industry or lifestyle -- is healthier than ever. This is no more true than on the health beat, where in a...
- Tags: Business Model, Health Care, Waterfront Media, Wavefront, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Are you ready to pay for news stories?
- Last year I wrote that quality news cannot continue to be free. This year, a lot of people seem to agree. News is not a commodity, it just seems that way because it has been offered for free. News releases press releases or social media releases are...
- Tags: New York Times Co., Business Model, News, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Interview: Wired's Chris Anderson on the 'free' business model
- As editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson is considered one of the most knowledgeable and insightful voices at the center of the new economy. In his articles and New York Times bestselling book The Long Tail, he has identified important new trends in the economy and described new business models...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Wired Inc., Shelf Space, Business Model, Computer Associates International Inc., Economy, Netbook, Anderson, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Is Google Health corrupt?
- How can it be OK for Steve Case to try and sell me Lipitor when I click over to a page on cholesterol, yet it's evil for Google to even consider doing the same? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google Health, Business Model, Health Care, Plain Fact, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Private SNOMED competitor is not any more
- The new name is based on a Sanskrit word for bridging gaps in understanding, but the business model in this case is clear. Anvita, formerly Safe-Med, is selling software. They are not trying to become a standard translation service for everyone's medical records. That's SNOMED, that's IHTSDO. If Snorocket gets...
- Tags: Google Health, Business Model, SNOMED Competitor, Safe-Med, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Business models at forefront of health care innovation
- As every business person knows the business model designs the industry. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Benefits, Business Model, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Incentive, Innovation, Management, Patient, Payment, Proprietary Software Industry, Software, Strategy, Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Can Everyblock find a business model in open source?
- I have long believed that journalism consists of organizing and advocating a place, industry or lifestyle. Everyblock does neither. It does little more than what Google itself can do, with the addition of a few more online resources. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Web, Open Source, Business Model, Web Site, Everyblock, Web Site Development, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- HealthCentral trying the consumer health roll-up
- While Healthline aggregates audiences through joint-ventures with other Internet players, HealthCentral looks to lock-up content by buying smaller sites and applying its business model to their content. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Business Model, Health Care, HealthCentral, BeWell, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Even at Google broke is still broke
- The story here isn't what Google's dropping, but what Google is leaving for the rest of us. Opportunity and the code with which to pursue it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Business Model, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-16

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