Corporate Strategy
Corporate venture capital has moved from the periphery of corporate innovation to its center. CVC funds now participate in roughly 26% of all venture deals globally, up from 15%...
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Commerce
While consumer marketplaces get most of the attention, B2B marketplaces are quietly rebuilding how businesses buy and sell. The scale of B2B commerce is roughly ten times larger...
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Platform Strategy
The platform landscape is consolidating into bundled offerings across virtually every digital services category. Standalone products that were once viable are increasingly being...
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Wellness
The wellness app market has grown substantially in recent years, with meditation, sleep, fitness, and mental health apps collectively reaching hundreds of millions of users glob...
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Fintech
Real-time payment systems expanded significantly in 2026. Brazil's PIX, India's UPI, and a growing list of similar national infrastructure projects processed record transaction ...
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Culture
Over the past year working from cafés in a dozen cities across three continents, I have developed an informal anthropology of café working culture. The unwritten rules vary enor...
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Technology
The acute semiconductor shortages that defined 2021-2023 have largely resolved. Lead times for most commodity chips have returned to pre-pandemic norms, though specific advanced...
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Technology
While Western markets maintain a pattern of specialized single-purpose apps, Southeast Asia has embraced the super app model — where ride-hailing, food delivery, payments, comme...
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