Articles by Gabe Weisert
The Creator Economy: Let A Million Startups Bloom
The Creator Economy is booming. Empowered with publishing platforms and recurring revenue streams, thousands of people are striking out on their own as paid creators. This isn’t just about well-known journalists leaving established brands anymore. Today, anyone can become a media company. As The New York Times says in an article titled “Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack”: “This new ability of individuals to make a living directly from their audiences isn’t just transforming journalism.
Optimizely & The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Optimizely & The Dunning-Kruger Effect Working at Google can make you formally incompetent when it comes to entrepreneurship. That was one of the most interesting takeaways from Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen’s recent SaaS Office Hours session with Redpoint’s estimable Tomasz Tunguz. An affable, self-deprecating guy, Pete Koomen talked a lot about the idea of “unknown unknowns,” or things you don’t know you don’t know about.
800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for August 2018
1. Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America 2. Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive 3. Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - And What to Do about It 4. Growth IQ: Get Smarter about the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Business 5. The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices That Make Great Teams Great 6.
Why Every Business Will Soon Be a Subscription Business
Business is no longer about ownership, says Tien Tzuo, but about access to goods and services. | iStock/wutwhanfoto After scrolling headlines in the New York Times, you head into the kitchen and open today’s Blue Apron box to prepare a shrimp risotto before turning on Netflix for an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. You may not have noticed, but you’re now fully enmeshed in the subscription model. The subscription model is a booming field.
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