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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

As the amount of content grows, so does the market for credible curators.

A great case study is Nathan Baschez and Dan Shipper’s Everything Bundle. In April, they decided to offer a bundled version of their newsletters, expecting a few extra subscribers from the experiment. Instead, they grew together from 600 to 1,000 paying subscribers within the ... See more

gabygoldberg.medium.com • Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium

This way of predicting tastes by aggregating millions of people’s preferences is known as “collaborative filtering”—collaborative because it takes many users’ inputs, and filtering because it uses the data to narrow down the next thing you want to hear.

Derek Thompson • Hit Makers

Search Remains the Best Business in History

Byrne Hobart thediff.co

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

There is a widespread belief in technology circles that bundling of cable TV, newspaper, magazine and other information goods will go away now that those products can be distributed à la carte on the internet. The assumption seems to be that bundling is an artifact of another era when distribution was physical. But this reasoning misses the economi... See more

Chris Dixon • How Bundling Benefits Sellers and Buyers

Bezos: Try to find use cases for new tech that aren’t just slight improvements on the status quo, but are completely impossible with the incumbent tech.

Example: Amazon developed Fulfillment Centers that were an order of magnitude above Walmart’s Distribution Centers, as they were highly automated / incorporated robotics, while allowing for predicti

Daunt refused to play this game. He wanted to put the best books in the window. He wanted to display the most exciting books by the front door. Even more amazing, he let the people working in the stores make these decisions.

This is James Daunt’s super power: He loves books.

Ted Gioia • What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

This is Paul Graham.

Moi Jamri • 34 cards