When you type “scuttleblurb.com” into your browser, that domain name is translated into a unique series of numbers called an IP address, which corresponds to a particular computer that all other networked computers comprising the internet reference in order to find and deliver my website to you. A non-profit entity called the Internet Corporation for […]
The demand side of this story is easy. As a former dog owner, I can assure you that there is nothing “experiential” about driving to Safeway and lugging 30lb bags of kibble back to the parking lot. Having it delivered to your front door is obviously the way to go. The supply side is more […]
Related Post: [LYV – Live Nation Entertainment] Some of It’s Magic, Some of It’s Tragic In my last blurb on Live Nation, I fussed over impending competition from Amazon, which was populating its US site with “Amazon Tickets” job listings that included the following salvo: “The ticketing business is ripe for innovation and improvement, as much […]
Pat Dorsey, founder of Dorsey Asset Management and formerly Director of Equity Research at Morningstar, recently pitched Workiva on the Invest Like the Best podcast (I have transcribed Dorsey’s remarks about WK in today’s Podcast Blurbs). At a high level: “And what they did is create a product that lets companies do SEC filings much […]
When I Google “used car salesman”, here are the first images that appear. ‘nuff said. It required an electronics and appliance retailer with no car selling experience to be the change that consumers wanted to see in the car buying experience. In 1993, the now defunct Circuit City launched the first CarMax store, leveraging its […]
Let’s take it back to ’69. The Unix operating system was just conceived under Bell Laboratories, the vaunted research joint venture of AT&T and Western Electric. Protected by the strictures of a consent decree from 1956, which prevented its parent AT&T from commercializing technology that wasn’t related to telephony, Unix thrived as an open research […]
Code Media (2/14/2018; Analyst Michael Nathanson on where media is headed) Michael Nathanson “Over the past 4 years [from 2013 to 2017], the FANG stocks have added $1.4tn of market cap. At the same time, the media industry, the content network industry, the studio industry, has lost about $40bn of market cap. This is one […]