Why Did Nokia Fail?
Tl;dr, we know it was Apple and Google. But perhaps we can put it differently – did it have to be that way? Let’s jump back to 2007, right before the iPhone came out. Nokia had 40% market share of… Continue Reading
How Does Bitcoin Make Money?
Ok Bitcoin lovers, what is this chart of? If you said NOT Bitcoin, well done. If you said Bitcoin, bad luck, this is Bitcoin. What you were looking at is Microsoft. People are obsessed with arguing over whether Bitcoin is… Continue Reading
How Does YouTube Make Money?
In contrast to Android, we do not have an angry law suit to help us at get to the bottom of how much money YouTube is making. Estimates for 2015 revenues vary from six to nine billion dollars. That’s wide… Continue Reading
How Does Credit Karma Make Money?
You ever see those internet memes where a cat adopts a mouse? Funny enough that’s what popped into my head when I started researching Credit Karma. Image: pixelvector via Reddit Credit scores are an industry built around the misery and… Continue Reading
How Does Kickstarter Make Money?
Sometimes I am intimidated by a Make Money topic. Not because it is huge but because they are so superficially simple. Kickstarter raises money from individuals for creative projects. It is deeply entwined with the beautiful idea of crowd sourcing.… Continue Reading
Food Profit Margins
Rudyard Kipling described prostitution as the world’s oldest profession. Clever but of course not true. The world’s oldest occupation is hunting or farming food – because before food there was nothing worth getting paid with. Food the business actually comes… Continue Reading
How Does Pokemon Go Make Money?
The other day, my wife says to me “what did you do before Pokémon Go?” Meet my surly wife. And the Drowzee living in my sink! Welcome to Pokemon Go Early estimates are that one in ten Americans have downloaded… Continue Reading
How Does Mozilla Firefox Make Money?
And watch how the open internet is being consumed by the Borg. These four maps are from Statcounter. They chart out the leading internet browsers by country. Back in 2008 Microsoft’s Klingon empire had leveraged its dominance in desktop personal… Continue Reading
How Does LinkedIn Make Money?
It’s the of summer of 2016 and Microsoft just bought LinkedIn for $26 billion dollars. What’s that all about? Had they just got sick and tired of all those pointless endorsements? To find out, we’ve got to start by exploring… Continue Reading
How Does ETRADE Make Money?
Boring topic huh? Except Etrade’s business model isn’t to get you to trade. Its to get you to deposit. There are a number of ways of making money from money. One is fee for service. Its a bit like a… Continue Reading