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Eddie “The Doctor” Lampert

I find it hard to believe that “Fast Buck” Eddie actually believes that people in the retail industry and Wall Street actually believe that he is going to rescue the business of Sears. Yes Eddie, that pesky word “believe” is […]

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Jet.com: Reefer Madness

Pardon my ‘60s pot metaphors of late.  There’s just maniacal, seemingly drug-induced behavior happening and it seems to be going viral across many industries. In particular, I think there’s a lot of legalized pot being passed around among Internet start-ups, […]

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Secondhand Luxury Is a Real Business Opportunity

Second-hand luxury retailer The RealReal just went public with an initial goal to raise $270 million. But on REAL\’s first day of trading they did better than that, selling 15 million shares at $20 each for $300 million. TheRealReal was […]

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Hong Kong Bay Area Blues

Many (Western) China watchers have been foretelling the economic decline and collapse of the world’s second-largest economy for decades. This outlook, often fueled by a certain amount of wish fulfillment, has been reinforced of late by a growing list of […]

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Coach and Michael Kors: An Eddie Lampert Echo?

Oh noooo! Are we going there again? No, I’m not going back to my years of ranting about Eddie Lampert, the brilliant financier who acquired Kmart and Sears in the early 2000s, declaring he was going to return those two […]

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Blue Nile: Internet Disruptor Makes the Virtual, Real

Founded in 1999, Blue Nile set out to disrupt the way people buy diamonds, with a special focus on the engagement ring business, skimming the cream off of traditional jewelry stores’ business.  The idea of selling engagement rings online grew […]

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GoEnjoy.com

“Personal Commerce” and Preemptive Distribution There are two strategic concepts that are imperative for any consumer-facing business to achieve success in the 21st century: personalization and preemptive distribution. As former Apple executive, Ron Johnson’s Genius Bar creation and Apple’s entire […]

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