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MARCH 3, 2015

Same day delivery services are being offered by Amazon , Ebay  and Google  in a variety of geographies.  As a side note, I really like Google's same day logo (pictured to the right). Expect much disruption in this industry in the coming years. Seems like everyone is getting into logistics.

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APRIL 19, 2016

.  But this is simply how new industries evolve. Most failed, but I think it's fair to say search overall has done OK as an industry. There's even a growing number of specialty search engines successfully living in the shadow of Google.  Internet search is a good example.  

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The key quote is on the size of the franchising industry: There are more than 825,000 franchise establishments across 300 business lines, which employ nearly 18 million people and accounts for one in eight U.S. venture backed companies (which includes firms like Fed Ex, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, etc.). private-sector jobs.

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MARCH 30, 2015

The article chart below shows the impact of these efforts on the prices of common Google adword search terms related to the on-demand economy.   This is all good news for the industry's providers, who are the independent workers doing the real work - driving, cleaning, delivering, etc.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

We readily admit this is a tough industry to forecast. We did this doing a simple set of Google searches. Regus continued its coworking push opening one of their Spaces spaces near Google  in Silicon Valley. But it's also clearly growing really, really fast. and Canada.   We found 62 U.S. and Canada.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 1, 2011

  Because of history, geography and chance, Silicon Valley has developed a number of sub-valleys - areas of Silicon Valley that are focal points for specific industries or activities.  Biotechboro:  South San Francisco's two-square-mile industrial zone is home to 72 biotech firms.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 27, 2011

  It's getting a lot of recent attention because Google, Apple and others are planning on using NFC in their mobile payments product lines.   The industry claims a range of up to 4 inches.  But my   NFC is a mature technology long used in both industrial and consumer applications. 

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MARCH 6, 2012

  Fast forward to today and telematics - the auto industry's term for car-based computing services and Internet access - has become a booming sector.  Google has been getting quite a bit of press with their research in this area and recently listed a series of job openings related to self-driving cars. 

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JANUARY 10, 2012

 A recent  New York Times blog post covers the topic and talks about Google and Apple working on wearable computing devices that communicate via cell phones.   Another driver is the success industry has had attaching computing devices to machines and packages. .   Wearable computing is not a new trend.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

  Ultralights are mostly outside of the technology industry and while they all hope to be successful, very few are looking to be the next Google or Facebook.    Tags: Business Models industry structure. .    Tags: Business Models industry structure.

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JULY 31, 2012

.   And the response from brick and mortar restaurants is a classic example of how incumbent industry participants tend to respond - by using their political power to try and fend off the innovative new firms.   Business model innovation refers to taking a new approach to an existing business or industry.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

  The chart below shows the number of Google search hits for the term "coworking"   Yes, you don't want to read too much into Google search data, but we've found it to be a good indicator of trend directions. .  This is illustrated by several clear signals.   .   

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AUGUST 1, 2011

We contributed an article to Banking.com discussing how non-traditional small business lenders - including folks like Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Google and others - are starting to provide small business credit services. 

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MARCH 29, 2011

   A wide range of companies are trying to position themselves for the expected growth in this industry.  Google : The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is teaming up with Master Card and Citibank to embed Near Field Communications (NFC) technology into the Android operating system. 

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

  We also found 28 shared "industrial coworking" facilities that met our coworking list requirements.    Tech Shop is a good example of an industrial coworking facility.    We also involved the Coworking Google Group in our research and released a draft facility list to the group. 

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As businesses become more dependent on these analyses, the raw data itself will become a key commodity, creating its own industry. " The data analytics and forecasting field has been growing rapidly over the last decade and is exploding right now (think Google, Facebook, hedge funds, biotech, the list goes on and on). 

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JULY 30, 2010

    For those that are interested, there is also Bio-Curious Google Group.  .  So we can add coworking biology/life science labs to the list of "non-traditional" coworking facilities.    **Update:  An alert reader pointed me to a blog post on this topic on The Atlantic Monthly blog. 

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JULY 30, 2010

    For those that are interested, there is also Bio-Curious Google Group.  .  So we can add coworking biology/life science labs to the list of "non-traditional" coworking facilities.    **Update:  An alert reader pointed me to a blog post on this topic on The Atlantic Monthly blog. 

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AUGUST 17, 2010

  A Google search on "Gazelles jobs" illustrates this. .    Probably the most prevalent view is that Gazelles , a small number of small, fast growing firms, create most of the U.S. economy's new jobs.  Web/Tech women work/life balance

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MAY 26, 2010

on Choosing the Right Industry Inc. has an interesting package of articles on the best industries for starting a business.    The industries that made their list are quite eclectic, everything from cupcakes to ferryboats to environmental consulting.  Excellent post. Great information all round.

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