Demand.io

Is the #coop business structure the model for the future? Shared ownership. Value creation across constituents. Long term, sustainable business model. Demand.io is a tech startup organized around coop principles. This is essential to our mission and success.... Read how coops are rising in the new economy: https://www.modernretail.co//why-ocean-sprays-cooperative/

Ikea is pioneering in-store furniture resale & recycling events for its customers, the first among furniture brands to follow the Thredup / Poshmark second-hand trend which has boomed in fashion. Brands that create circular economics, form lifetime relationships and build community with customers, will lead the future in #d2c #ecommerce. https://www.modernretail.co//with-resale-ikea-is-trying-t/

TikTok in many ways highlights the future of social apps. It's the first algorithm-centric app, in contrast to Facebook, Instagram which are social graph-centric. Its superior algorithm affords it efficiencies and optimizations that the legacy networks lack, and which future ones won't survive without. "One can debate the semantics of what constitutes a social network forever, but what matters here is realizing that another way to describe an entertainment network is as an in...terest network. TikTok takes content from one group of people and match it to other people who would enjoy that content. It is trying to figure out what hundreds of millions of viewers around the world are interested in. When you frame TikTok's algorithm that way, its enormous unrealized potential snaps into focus." https://www.eugenewei.com///8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat #tiktok #socialproductdesign #socialemedia

It's great to see a real, viable counterweight to Amazon and its dominance of e-commerce - and who better than Google to step into the ring? The recent improvements to Google Shopping have been notable, and now by making it commission-free to sell on Google Shopping, the search giant is creating a compelling alternative to Amazon for both sellers and shoppers. Things are about to get interesting in e-commerce. https://blog.google//sho/buy-on-google-is-zero-commission/ #ecommerce #dtc #google #amazon #onlineshopping

The global internet is rapidly splintering into four parts (or philosophical models), with India's 5G network being the newest and perhaps most interesting for US internet partners. "Not only is it unreasonable and disrespectful for the U.S. to expect India to be some sort of vassal state technologically speaking, it is actually a good thing to not only have a counterweight to China geographically, but also a counterweight amongst developing countries specifically. Jio is con...sidering problem-spaces that U.S. tech companies are all too often ignorant of, which matters not simply for India but also for much of the rest of the world." https://stratechery.com/2/india-jio-and-the-four-internets/ #indiatech #internetaccess #5gnetwork

Why skills specialization may be less important than being a creative generalist in the future economy: "...every field imaginable will, eventually, combine with technology to replace a job. Who are the individuals that will make this happen? The polymaths, of course. Ironically, the majority of mankind’s biggest breakthroughs haven’t come from specialists; they have come from multifaceted individuals." https://www.jotform.com/blog/the-world-needs-polymaths/... #innovation #startupculture #buildingteams