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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Sometimes much larger changes, or new products which define a market. I highly recommend you watch it.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. No other metric more important to an organisation than its profitability.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables. “Once a firm ‘invents’ good management it will then grow rapidly and dominate the market,” Bloom argues. Other academic research has found the same.

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7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Independent Contractors

Harvard Business Review

“Pay them market rate,” says Pink, “and if you value their work pay them more.” has hired freelancers—mostly software developers—for 15 years. . “It’s easy to say shape up or ship out partly because you can boot them at any time and you don’t have to feel as badly about it.”

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software.

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What GM’S Layoffs Reveal About the Digitalization of the Auto Industry

Harvard Business Review

The mean digitalization score of workers in the advanced manufacturing sector, of which auto is a part, surged 60%, from 24 to 39 since 2002. ” In that vein, last week’s layoffs surely were a response to changing near-term market conditions.