Darwinian change is coming for higher education. Even before Covid-19 hit, students and parents were questioning the skyrocketing cost of a traditiona…
Marketplaces
A collection of insights around the trends in consumer marketplaces.
Can Your Marketplace Company Survive COVID-19? New Battery Growth Metrics Can Help
Even before COVID-19 upended the global economy in March, many consumer-marketplace businesses were facing a sort of reckoning. Too many of them had r…
What New Consumer Habits Will Stick Post-COVID-19? China Offers Clues
As Americans navigate the country’s reopening, China is well ahead. Chinese officials relaxed a strict lockdown on the city of Wuhan on April 8 …
Online Education is Having its Moment in a COVID-19 World: Part 2, Adult Learners
COVID-19 has disrupted learning and education for over 1 billion students globally, and I explored the implications to K-12 students in my previous po…
Online Education is Having its Moment in a COVID-19 World: Part 1, K-12
The world we’re living in now would have been unimaginable just a couple of months ago. Across the globe, the coronavirus is changing the way we live …
The Online-Marketplace Revolution, Part Two: Why These Tech Companies Faltered in 2019 and How They Can Rebound in 2020
Last year, my firm launched an ambitious index for tracking the stocks of global consumer-marketplace companies—enterprises that connect buyers and se…
Online Universities, MOOCs and More . . . What’s Next in Ed Tech?
It’s clear that education in the U.S. is still in dire straits. We spend more than most other developed countries on education, yet our students have …
Bringing the Benefits of Athletics to More Kids—Through Esports
Over 40 million players from 200 countries participated in the event–drawing 19,000 fans to a sold-out stadium in New York City over the course …
The Six Factors You Should Obsess Over When Building a Marketplace Business
Consumer marketplace companies are hot—just look at all the ink being spilled on the recent IPOs of Uber and Lyft and the expected, upcoming listing o…
The Magic Under the Hood: Niantic, Harry Potter and the “Real-World Platform”
There is plenty of magic in the much-anticipated Harry Potter: Wizards Unite augmented reality (AR) game, which was publicly released today by Niantic…