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The New Agents of Market Penetrations

Harvard Business Review

Three MIT students pitched an idea : travel to India and help local students apply technical knowledge to local problems. Recently, I traveled to Kenya as part of an African Union-funded research. and Europe, they can share the ideas overseas when they travel. Technology companies signed up and supported them.

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Tesla Shows How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

Harvard Business Review

Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats. The solution to this, which I’ve written about previously , is to enhance share-of-market metrics with share of growth.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. If Android throws a Hawaiian luau with a five-course feast, free travel, and attendees get to meet Robert Downey Jr. He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform.