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Prices are always relative… | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Business Models Prices are always relative… RSS Feed Prices are always relative… By Rajesh Setty on Tue 02 Sep 2008, 4:00 AM - View Comments Be it for a commodity (like gas) or for something new like Apple iPhone or Amazon Kindle. Its even 100% free! Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters.

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Companies must pull off a difficult feat: create products and services that are aspirational and combine them with business models that can work with income volatility, not just low incomes. The "new normal" will force companies to design business models that can work with income volatility, regardless of geography.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. The Washington Post ran a special back in 2010 entitled " Top Secret America " that detailed the extent to which this was taking place.

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