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AI Business Models: Snap MyAI

Snap MyAI: how does it monetize? Generative AI Snap chose to buy, not build, generative AI features through OpenAI’s enterprise Foundry program for an undisclosed amount.  Business Models B:C Subscription : The company rolled out the MyAI feature to current

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AI Business Models: Bing AI

Bing AI: how does it monetize? Generative AI Microsoft invested in an exclusive deal to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT model within their Bing app, which they have named Sydney.  Business Models B:C Advertising: The company is considering in-chatbot advertising suggestions after

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Which business models will fail?

Which business models will fail? The undoing of lose-money-to-earn hardware models  Business model innovation is a combination game, linking partners, suppliers, and other actors to create value for everyone in an ecosystem.  But when things fall apart, failed business models

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What to Do if You Have SaaS Brain

What to do if you have SaaS Brain Do you find yourself suffering from the following symptoms: Your sales are starting to slow.  Your cancellations on the rise. Your lifetime value (LTV) is shrinking. Your cost of customer acquisition (CAC)

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Moving Beyond ESG

Moving Beyond ESGs Naming the Dominant Logic and Making Sense of the Real Governance Metrics Welcome to a set of unfolding presumptions about how we transition to a survivable social, environmental, and political climate. This is a second in a

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Champlain Hudson Power Express

September 7, 2022 New York Contribution Value Research  Rating: HOLD Debt to be raised: $6 BN Promised Economic Development: $3.5 BN / 25 years Promised Emissions Reduced: Decreasing carbon emissions by 3.9 million metric tons per year Price for those

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Contribution Value Design

Narratives > Models We can all agree we want to transition to a survivable social, environmental, and political climate. Despite the obstacles we all know exist, the real problem is we have a multi-trillion dollar global funding gap, but we

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Tech Titans for Busy People Q3 Facebook

If You Blink You Might Miss the Tech Titans We’re still hearing a tale of two Facebooks  One in the media and Regulatory threats all doom and gloom. The other and financial performance with – big news – a big

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Logic is in the Eye of the Logician

“How do I fund this?” This is the most common question I get when meeting with students, researchers, artists, corporate innovators, non-profit directors, and government policymakers when embarking on a new idea.  I’m a business modeler, and I teach how

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Tech Titans for Busy People Q2 Amazon

If You Blink You Might Miss the Tech Titans The first quarter since Bezos stepped down from his role to pursue a career in the space industry. How did Amazon do?  The tone was sheepish, apologetic, and short, almost hiding

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Tech Titans for Busy People Q2 Facebook

If You Blink You Might Miss the Tech Titans Not the first time in earnings history – un-ironic melding of fiction and Wall Street analyst narrative building.  Now Facebook did have the fastest quarterly revenue growth year over year in

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Tech Titans for Busy People Q2 Alphabet

If You Blink You Might Miss the Tech Titans First Tech Titan of the week did not disappoint. Alphabet blipped this time last year but blew through expectations in the second quarter. Antitrust on the horizon. Free protein structures. Advertising

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Tech Titans for Busy People Q3 Apple

If You Blink You Might Miss the Tech Titans Second Tech Titan blew through all expectations. Jaw dropping growth, says Tim Cook. Way beyond anyone’s expectations. It’s the biggest Spring quarter in the 45 year history of the company. He

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