Tesla stock dropped a bit after Elon Musk dismissed a some analyst questions, calling them “boring” and “bonehead.” The take from the business press was that Musk‘s behavior was “bizarre” (Marketwatch) and “irksome” (Wall Street Journal). Musk later stated that it was “foolish” of him not to just answer the questions but then explained why […]
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E-commerce is growing. The chunk that is mobile-driven is exploding. But the big picture is still the big picture. While total retail e-commerce sales will hit $2.8 trillion in 2018, total retail sales are in the neighborhood of $23 trillion to $25 trillion. So while massive growth rates are forcing retailers and brands to pay
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Every discussion about artificial intelligence seems to alternate between utopia and dystopia. Some believe that the productivity unleashed through automation will lift up all of society, creating a world of superabundance and more meaningful work, while others see robots taking our jobs and an acceleration of trends favoring capital over labor. In fact, in an
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Elon Musk is often hailed as a visionary, and rightly so. Tesla, not to mention his other ventures, has the mark of a business that can truly change the world. When he co-founded the company in 2003, electric cars seemed like a pipe dream. Today, however, just about every major carmaker is investing in the
IPsoft is, in many ways, an unusual entrant into the crowded, but burgeoning, artificial intelligence industry. First of all, it is not a startup, but a 20-year-old company and its leader isn’t some millennial savant, but a fashionable former NYU professor named Chetan Dube. It bills its cognitive agent, Amelia, as the “world’s most human
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Have you considered starting a mobile app? Or does your company already have one in progress? There are thousands of successful mobile apps on the market, but tens of thousands of failed starts to balance them out. Building a mobile app isn’t a get-rich-quick-scheme; instead, it’s a trial by fire that only a small percentage
The relationship between business and social impact has been changing rapidly over the last few years. In the past, civic organizations were the primary standard-bearers for driving change and social good in the world. Recent developments, however, have infused business into social efforts, with amazing results. By creating social enterprises, innovative business leaders and entrepreneurs
Key Benefits of Creating Social Enterprise Companies. It’s More Than You Think Read More »
More than seven out of every ten marketers are trusting just one technology to make sense of all their challenges in 2018. And it just might succeed … if it doesn’t also take their jobs. Or if privacy regulations reduce the amount of data available to power it. Artificial intelligence is set to be the most transformative
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In previous columns, I’ve explained that there’s a lot of hype surrounding the incremental improvements of the decades-old programming techniques collectively identified under the marketing buzzword “Artificial Intelligence” aka “AI.” What’s NOT hype is that those programming techniques (pattern recognition, neutral nets, ect.) have gotten incrementally more effective than they were in the past at playing games and
AI Is Still Dumber Than a 5-Year-Old, Say Scientists Read More »
When the Universe sends you a signal, in business and in life, it either hits you and you pivot, or you miss it and the door closes. For Aaron Zuniga, when the Universe presented an opportunity for him to play music full-time, he not only heard it, he went head first into the thing he
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