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The decade when Small Business became King

By John Persico on March 5, 2012

We might remember 2012 as the beginning of a golden decade – the era that small business value creation became easier and more abundant in driving Global GDP. There has been no better time to own, start and run a small business than right now. Particularly online businesses. The economics of the internet has profoundly closed the resources gap between the haves and have nots. With cheaper and more accessible technology combining with an emerging global middle-class of several billions (e.g. China, India, Indonesia, Brazil) – it should be unsurprising that small businesses will play a more active and vocal role in the global business policy agenda in the decade ahead.
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Power of informational goods marketplaces

By John Persico on December 21, 2011

Pervasive informational goods marketplaces

The online world continues to unleash an immense innovation machine where anyone, anywhere can create, share and add economic value through informational goods such as software, videos and music. In simple terms, an information good is a type commodity whose main market value is derived from the information it contains. Extensive academic literature has been written on the subject, its behaviours and unique properties.[1] Informational goods typically exhibit several key economic value characteristics. Namely they are:

1. Made by human brains

2. Made of pliable symbols

3. Consumption by one human does not exclude consumption by another

4. Almost costless to reproduce
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Finance Leaders: Generation Z and Education

By John Persico on November 20, 2011

Looking Back 100 years

I recently presented at the Global Creative Innovation Conference. The audience was challenged with identifying three industries that had barely changed systematically over the past 100 years. The final list:

1. Religion

2. Education

3. Professional Services

Understandably, few would argue that churches, temples and synagogues and their followers have embraced change (rightfully or wrongfully) despite the tremendous technological progressions over the past century. Plenty of people appear to be committed to ensuring the next generation have no need to learn in a grid-like classroom from the 1800s - but learn in ways that truly enrich educational learning and critical thinking.
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