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Nuclear weapons and arms control

Nuclear weapons and arms control

Incumbents vs. Startups: Disruptive innovation at big companies,

Incumbents vs. Startups: Disruptive innovation at big companies

Google - legal issues

Google - legal issues

Big lawsuits vs. Tech companies - legal challenges vs. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, more...

Big lawsuits vs. Tech companies - legal challenges vs. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, more...

F1 Car Racing - Formula 1 Sports

F1 Car Racing - Formula 1 Sports

Apple, Epic Games and the App Store

Apple, Epic Games (Fortnite) and the App Store

Google - Founding story, history

Google - Founding story, history

Corporate Innovation - building a culture of disruption and innovation at bigger companies

Corporate Innovation - building a culture of disruption and innovation at bigger companies

Android - Google - Business Model, Strategy

Android - Google - Business Model, Strategy

Squad - Social Chat app - bought by Twitter, shut down

Squad - Social Chat app - bought by Twitter, shut down

How Musicians make money in the Music Industry - tools, resources, apps, websites

How Musicians make money in the Music Industry - tools, resources, apps, websites

Microsoft Teams - chat app for business

Microsoft Teams - chat app for business

Examples - how companies use M&A Acquisitions as strategy to compete and grow

Examples - how companies use M&A Acquisitions as strategy to compete and grow

Game Theory - courses

an introduction to game theory

Google Shopping

Google Shopping

Target - retail business - Competing vs. Amazon, Walmart

Target - retail business - Competing vs. Amazon, Walmart

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Article

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney calls out Apple's 'bitter griping' after its EU fine over anticompetitive practices | TechCrunch

"Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!," said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tech giant for (2024)


Article

Big business: America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple

Why America’s corporate giants are surprisingly impervious to disruption. Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disr... (2023)


Article

App Store Arguments – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

There are all kinds of arguments to make about the App Store, and nearly all of them are good ones; that’s why the best solution can only come from... (2021)


Article

The Roblox Microverse – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it. (2021)


Article

How To Lose

In the US, we are currently getting a master class in “how not to lose.” When I was young, my parents regularly said to me, “Don’t be a sore loser.... (2021)


Article

Apple, Epic, and the App Store

The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are f... (2020)


Article

Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products

Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. “We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive wit... (2020)


Article

The Slack Social Network (vs. Microsoft Teams)

Slack lost to Microsoft head-to-head, but has smartly shifted to a horizontal strategy that the vertically-oriented Microsoft can’t match. (2020)


Article

Platforms in an Aggregator World

Facebook Shops are good for Shopify merchants, but bad for Shopify; the answer is to push more into the real world. (2020)


Article

Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First

Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun ... (2020)


Article

States are leaning toward a push to break up Google's ad tech business

Critics have said that Google bundles its ad tools so that rivals can't afford to match its offerings and that its operation of search results, You... (2020)


Article

The Difference Between a First Mover and a Category Creator - Harvard Business Review

There’s more to breakthrough products than being first to market. “... rise in the misconceptions surrounding category creation. The most common... (2019)


Article

Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition (anandtech.com) - 2019

With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned on their upcoming Cascade Lake... (2019)


Article

Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store - The Washington Post

Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies... (2019)


Article

Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers - VICE

The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee. (2019)


Article

Why Google+ Failed

Google Plus didn’t fail because Facebook is invulnerable. It failed because of deep flaws embedded in it from the very start. I joined the Googl... (2019)


Article

Fake White Truffles Have Flooded the Italian Food Scene - Eater

Investigating Europe’s illegal truffle trade, where Tunisian truffles are often sold as expensive versions from Piedmont (2019)


Article

How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years | Ars Technica

We did a deep-dive into the 233-page ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist. (2019)


Article

Apple’s new App Store website takes aim at antitrust, anti-competitive claims – TechCrunch

Just ahead of WWDC, Apple has launched a new App Store website in the hopes of better defending itself against recent antitrust and anti-competitiv... (2019)


Article

AT&T Has Become a New Kind of Media Giant | Fortune

Bellhead Randall Stephenson has assembled a media empire. Now comes the hard part. "That’s a result of another titanic battle, the end in Februa... (2019)


Article

Sony's Deal With Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team - Bloomberg

Decision to partner with Microsoft stunned PlayStation staff. Talks on cloud gaming pact have been underway since last year When Sony Corp. unv... (2019)


Article

How Twitter Became Ubiquitous in Japan - Bloomberg (2019)

Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company’s total revenue Now, five years after Sasamoto joined, Japan is Twitter's second-largest ... (2019)


Article

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Blessed By FCC Chairman : NPR

"This is a unique opportunity to speed up the deployment of 5G throughout the United States and bring much faster mobile broadband to rural America... (2019)


Article

Epic undercuts Steam with new store that gives devs more money | Ars Technica

New storefront will take 12% of a game's revenues, rather than Steam's 30%. (2019)


Article

Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon - 2019 - CNBC

Walmart's rollout of next-day delivery will begin in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California this week, before reaching 75% of the country by th... (2019)


Article

Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass – Andreessen Horowitz

This post is all about network effects and critical mass. But it’s also about applying those concepts as important mental models in business, so I ... (2016)


Article

Inside Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work - The Verge

Microsoft has a 7,000-square-foot space dedicated to prototyping the future. We got to see a number of demonstrations of future concepts of Windows... (2019)


Article

What Is Strategy? - Michael Porter essay (1996) - Harvard Business Review

This article has benefited greatly from the assistance of many individuals and companies. The author gives special thanks to Jan Rivkin, the coauth... (1996)


Article

A 40-Year Debate Over Corporate Strategy Gets Revived by Elon Musk and Warren Buffett - Harvard

Which matters more: “moats” or innovation? When Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that “moats are lame” during the company’s earnings call last week, he ... (2018)


Article

Scanning the fintech landscape: 10 disruptive models - McKinsey

A look at ten businesses models reshaping the financial services arena. May 8, 2019The range of models is breathtaking, and, drawing from my rec... (2019)


Video

What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything

This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)


Video

How Kmart Went From Beating Walmart And Target To Bankruptcy - CNBC

In October 2018, Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. Kmart first filed for bankruptcy in 2002, making this its second tim... (2018)


Video

Why Netflix Is Struggling In India - CNBC

Netflix has 137 million subscribers and a majority of them are international. But the streaming giant is still struggling to break into India, the ... (2018)


Video

TEDed - What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-nicholas-amendolare... (2018)


Video

TEDed - Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan

Game Theory, Nash Equilibrium and ‘Socially Optimal Solutions’ (S.O.S.) (2018)


Video

How to Win with Game Theory & Defeat Smart Opponents | Kevin Zollman

If you want to win, it's best to think crazy like a fox. Nobody knows this better than Kevin Zollman — a nationally recognized expert in game theor... (2018)


Video

Game Theory Session 2: The Hofstadter Offer

2nd of a 15 part series introducing the social dynamics of game theory found in the book Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic and Human Frailty. ... (2018)


Video

Game Theory Session 1: The Dollar Auction, Concorde Fallacy & MacBeth Effect

1st of a 15 part series introducing the social dynamics of game theory found in the book Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic and Human Frailty. ... (2018)


Video

The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and The Evolution of Cooperation

The iterated prisoner's dilemma is just like the regular game except you play it multiple times with an opponent and add up the scores. But it can ... (2018)


Video

The Prisoner's Dilemma

The prisoners dilemma is a hypothetical game set up showing a situation where people won't want to work together even when it's beneficial to do so... (2018)


Video

Game Theory and Oligopoly: Crash Course Economics #26

Would you like to play a game, Dr. Falken? Actually, this episode isn't really about games, or Matthew Broderick, or Thermonuclear War. But enough ... (2018)


Video

How ski warfare created biathlon

It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)


Video

Passing FUNDAMENTALS - How to PASS Volleyball Tutorial (part 1/6)

Elevate Yourself Published on Dec 16, 2015 Learn the fundamentals of passing a volleyball with details about an effective ready position, platf... (2018)


Video

Setting Passes OFF The Net - How to SET a Volleyball Tutorial (part 4/5)

Elevate Yourself Published on Jan 28, 2016 Learn how to set passes that are off the net! These videos will teach the fundamentals of how to set ... (2018)


Video

Setting FUNDAMENTALS - How to SET Volleyball Tutorial (part 1/5)

Elevate Yourself Published on Nov 9, 2015 Learn the fundamentals of how to set a volleyball by learning the proper stance, hand formation, and re... (2018)


Video

Arm Swing Mechanics : Top Spin + Solid Contact (part 2/2) - How to SPIKE a Volleyball Tutorial

Elevate Yourself Published on Jan 3, 2016 Learn how to generate top spin on the ball with solid contact. This video will teach you proper spiking... (2018)


Video

Arm Swing Mechanics : 3 Motions (part 1/2) - How to SPIKE a Volleyball Tutorial

Elevate Yourself Published on Jan 1, 2016 Learn a simple and effective arm swing technique that will maximize your power and control when spiki... (2018)


Video

Improve Spiking TIMING (part 2/2) - How to SPIKE a Volleyball Tutorial

Elevate Yourself Published on Feb 3, 2016 This video is about how to spike with better timing in volleyball. Learn how to improve your spiking... (2018)


Video

Winter sports are facing many challenges. Can they survive? | The Economist

The Economist Published on Feb 8, 2018 The 2018 Winter Olympics will see athletes from a record-breaking 92 countries compete in Pyeongchang, S... (2018)


Video

The difference between winning and succeeding | John Wooden

TED Published on Mar 26, 2009 With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. I... (2018)


Video

Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel | Stanford "How to Start a Startup"

Y Combinator Published on Mar 22, 2017 Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competi... (2018)


Podcast

Google advertising lawsuit: The New Vampire Squid? With Dina Srinivasan - Capitalisn't | Podcast on Spotify

In a Wall Street Journal article about Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke,’ Jeff Horwitz and Keach Hagey quoted Google Chief Economist Hal Varian's ... (2023)


Podcast

Babbage: Apple's Epic battle - The Economist | Podcast

Babbage from Economist Radio on Spotify. This week a judge heard the first arguments in an antitrust case that could reshape the software ecosy... (2020)


Podcast

Family-Friendly Disney | Exponent podcast

Ben and James discuss Disney’s recent announcements on streaming and what it says about not just TV but strategy broadly in the Internet era. (2019)


Podcast

Platforms Versus Aggregators | Exponent podcast - Episode 152

Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Who’s Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)

with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)


Podcast

Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z on SoundCloud

Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)


Podcast

What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement? - 2018 - a16z Podcast

Stream a16z Podcast: What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement? by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)


Book

The End of Competitive Advantage (book) - Rita Gunther McGrath - Harvard Business Review

How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business - book by Rita Gunther McGrath, and Alex Gourlay Publication Date: June 04, 2013 Ar... (2019)


Note

GoogleFile

Online Learning - providers, analysis - Google Sheets

How much can teachers earn on various teaching LMS platforms? Analysis of Udemy, Teachable, Kajabi, Podia, LinkedIn Learning, Lynda, Skillshare, P... (2019)


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