Hi I’m Jen van der Meer. And forgive me. I’m a bit obsessed with Amazon. Amazon just reported 2018 financials. They crushed it. As you know, Amazon is a juggernaut. We often lump Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet together with even Facebook or Netflix. But nothing is like Amazon. Amazon is complexity. And the most ingenious.
Is the Sears bankruptcy the fault of financiers, looking at the world through spreadsheets? Don’t blame the spreadsheets. Logic is in the eye of the logician. There is a core belief that is shared among financiers and MBAs: companies have natural cycles of Startup, growth, maturity, and death. I was always sort of sad when
Two words that don’t fit well together. Corporate. Innovation. Said inside of startup circles, you’d hear a bit of a cynical chuckle. Heh. Innovation doesn’t happen in corporates. The story we’ve been telling for years: Corporate, large, giant, public companies are hampered by: Investor expectations to deliver the short term Large hierarchical organizational structures of
Telling your narrative + growth story to attract the people, resources, and everything else you need. Impressed by the Female Entrepreneur contingent – women entrepreneurs from Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Germany at this Nordic Innovation House event.
The Business Model Innovation Choice 20 years ago, I was a 20-something digital punk strategist. The internet was going to change the WORLD. I would ply my trade telling established Fortune 1000 clients that they had to move swiftly. Radically transform your companies into a digital businesses. Fast. Or risk annihilation. What followed was one
Looking forward to emceeing Data Case Studies at Strata+Hadoop on Tuesday. From banking to biotech, retail to government, nonprofit to energy, every business sector is changing in the face of abundant data. Driven by competitive pressures and rising consumer expectations, firms are getting better at defining business problems and applying data solutions. Companies like BBC,
Airbnb and Systems of Trust I was angry. It was 3:00 in the morning, and there was yet another springtime alleyway party in the Airbnb hotel behind my building. I live in the West Village of New York, which is home to a number of these buildings. Let me describe how the Airbnb hotel works.
Last week it was one of those rare perfect sunny days in New York City, and I found myself looking up at the sky as I crossed West 4th Street. I was soon to be punished for my reverie. While enjoying the sun, my glasses had slipped out of my pocket and onto the middle
Open Data and the Future for Startups I’m at Startupfest Montreal today – come join me to talk about The Future of Open Data: Startup festopendata lightning_vandermeer from Jen van der Meer The rise of open data sets released onto the public commons has accelerated the birth of new industries, and new companies. Emerging as
For events and public speaking: Jen’s Short Bio: Jen is the Founder and CEO of Reason Street, where she helps companies find the right business models to make the greatest impact. A former Wall Street analyst and economist, Jen has practiced an approach that is equal parts data-driven and creative to understand and apply the opportunities