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Enterprise Social Networking Platforms: Think Amazon, Not Facebook

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I kid you not: even though Amazon predated the whole Web 2.0 Think now about Amazon in its early days. It was to grow fast – so that it could be as big as the Amazon river for the online retail world. Others said the company was burning through its cash too quickly. Within two months, sales topped $20,000 a week.

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Google and Amazon race to the bottom for tablet sales

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Cover via Amazon. The pricing war initiated by Google and Amazon, regarding the low price at which tablets are sold, does not reflect their full costs. Inefficiency arises when a producer or a supplier of a factor input has market power–both Google and Amazon undoubtedly have that power.

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Groupon's competition isn't LivingSocial. It's Amazon.

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This week LivingSocial, the leading Groupon daily deal competitor, ran a deal for $20 gift card on Amazon for $10. The Great Amazon Gift Card Giveaway will likely be heralded as the second most important day in the history of LivingSocial. It's the day that Amazon invested $175 million into LivingSocial not so long ago.

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E-commerce innovation, and it’s not from Amazon

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If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time looking at how Amazon does business. Amazon seemingly sells everything under the sun and they have been the standard for e-Commerce innovation since–well, since e-Commerce has existed. Or at least I haven’t noticed them at Amazon. Image by Creative Tools via Flickr.

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How are you managing the changing nature of B2B customers?

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Which is all well and good, but how many B2B companies are really paying attention to the changes in what customers want? I had an interesting conversation with Steve Shaffer, CEO of Insite Software , a leading B2B eCommerce company. To understand what would make customers do that, B2B execs should look to the B2C giant, Amazon. .

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Intentional inventing: own the intellectual property that leads the future

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Patents don’t mean much if the owner is a small company or an inventor. Patents are the only way a small company sits at the big boys’ table. But if a large company owns the patent, their stick is as big as they want. But VCs and investors won’t back them if their innovations are not patented.

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Switch the user interface to accelerate growth and leadership

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If you switch the interface to user control, people will decide the fate of advertising and consumption, and your publishing or media company can grow from both advertising revenues and connected consumption transactions. How can threatened publishers and media companies take back advertising, rise to leadership, and re-open their future?