Just finished reading an interesting story in the Globe and Mail about the state of online commerce in Canada. It was titled What keeps online retail in Canada from clicking? In short, it’s about one startup’s audacious goal to become the Amazon of the North. What got my interest was an observation that Canadian businesses are really not [...]
Divorcing a business idea can be an extremely difficult thing to do. Even for mature, successful companies such as Coca-Cola. Let’s for a minute go all the way back to April of 1985, when Coca-Cola introduced New Coke. This was not a good idea, but it took Coca-Cola a little while to realize that they needed [...]
Have you ever asked yourself that question? I did. One of the simplest explanations I have found so far comes from Ivor Tossell, a columnist for The Globe and Mail: “The simple fact is that – like an airline or a cable company – Facebook is useful. Every moral panic about the nature of friendship [...]