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Pupa markets?

July 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

In the late 1990s as B2B exchanges proliferated wildly, we saw the term “butterfly market” gain immense popularity; it was used to describe a market where very large numbers of buyers and sellers congregated.
Ross Mayfield pointed me at a very interesting paper on How Not to Build an Online Market, well worth a read. You [...]

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Musing about Drucker and Four Pillars

July 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

Yesterday I quoted extensively from Drucker, labouring his point that we no longer have unique technologies for a given industry, nor unique end uses for a given product or service.
This is important to bear in mind when we look at Four Pillars.
We should not constrain the tools we have, nor constrain the tools we have [...]

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