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How Does Bitcoin Make Money?

September 20, 2017Yuen Lo 8 Comments
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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 →

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How Does Kickstarter Make Money?

August 31, 2016Yuen Lo 4 Comments
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 →

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Food Profit Margins

August 11, 2016Yuen Lo 6 Comments
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 →

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How Does Pokemon Go Make Money?

July 21, 2016Yuen Lo 2 Comments
Pokemon Go and my wife

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 →

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How Does LinkedIn Make Money?

June 23, 2016Yuen Lo 1 Comment
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 →

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How Does WhatsApp Make Money?

April 29, 2016Yuen Lo 1 Comment
How does WhatsApp Make Money

Early in 2014, Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp. It had over 400m users, and therefore sold up for $47 a user. As is often the case with ground breaking acquisitions, Facebook confirmed that apps and users were worth something,… Continue Reading →

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How Does Uber Make Money?

April 1, 2016Yuen Lo 4 Comments
how does uber make money

A while ago, I made the mistake of saying Uber and AirBnB were basically the same. My friend Jim quickly corrected me. “No AirBnB is the sharing of an existing asset. Uber is the digital disruption of an existing market.… Continue Reading →

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How Does Android Make Money?

March 16, 2016Yuen Lo Leave a Comment
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You’re part of a billion mobile phones. And not just any part. You’re the software. The brains behind it all. But you are given away for free. Even worse, the handset makers who use your software have to pay Apple… Continue Reading →

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How Does Gold Make Money?

February 16, 2016Yuen Lo 5 Comments
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You’ve seen it a thousand times. Maybe you can’t stand the color. Maybe you love the stuff. But one thing easy to note about Gold is that irrespective of which government is in power, irrespective of the amount of blood… Continue Reading →

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How Does AirBnB Make Money?

January 22, 2016Yuen Lo Leave a Comment

AirBnB is not the sharing economy. It is the retailing of your roof. AirBnB helps people make money from the spare room they are already paying for. For something you have bought or rented wholesale. Take a step back, and… Continue Reading →

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