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A recent study by McKinsey found that the average life-span of companies listed in Standard & Poor’s 500 was 61 years in 1958. Today, it is less than 18 years. McKinsey believes that, in 2027, 75% of the companies currently quoted on the S&P 500 will have disappeared.
Stéphane Garelli • Why you will probably live longer than most big companies
Charting the Rise and Fall of the Global Luxury Goods Market
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A magazine company comes to you for help. They understand publishing is a troubled industry. However, their sales have declined 10% while those of their closest competitor
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro • Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology (Cracking the Interview & Career)

前两周吐槽了一下这几年🇨🇦每况愈下的经济和人均生产力,今天特意把常去的欧洲国家还有日本和中国做了个对比。除去自然资源丰富和人口稀少的北欧,荷兰是肉眼可见的发达和有钱,欧洲农产品出口第一,超过法国,脱欧的英国已经快不如意大利,日本的人均效率果然是30年不变。。。农业效率的提升得益于工业革命的成果,个体效率的提升则得益于信息革命的成果,很明显美国把两次成果都充分享受到了✨
最后再看中国,劳动力便宜才是发展最大的问题,中国不能提供普遍的高收入岗位,因为中国的生产力水平太拉跨,万维钢在精英日课最新的一篇中分享了一些很有趣的数据:中国的玉米、稻谷、小麦、大豆、棉花人工成本分别是美国的14.78倍、4.11倍、16.33倍、8.5倍、28.23倍。美国 300万农业人口,不但养活了全体美国人,而且... See more
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) is 180 years old. No business survives that long (two world wars and a civil war, recessions and depressions, market booms and busts, multiple technological revolutions, good and bad management, you name it) without an amazing structural moat. That’s the power of data businesses.
Abraham Thomas • The Economics of Data Businesses
And this got me thinking! Are newsletters ultimately just an entry point to one or more major business industries? NAAS (Newsletters-as-a-service) may eventually become DNCB (Digital Native Community Brands).
Marie Dollé • Monetizing Newsletters: When Creators Strive With Ideas
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