The On-Demand Economy By The Numbers
Re-published from www.theondemandeconomy.org. Do you need food for the evening, but you’re too busy to prepare dinner? Or perhaps it’s raining, and you can’t find a taxi. Thanks to on-demand economy […]
Author Archives: mikedudas
The Technology “Sales” Person
As technology impacts every process, operation and function of every industry known to humans, the set of potential buyers of technology products has increased to “any human employed in any industry”. […]
Rapid Fire Thoughts On Apple Pay
As you may have heard, Apple launched an evolutionary mobile payments product called Apple Pay this week. Here are a few quick thoughts on the product, launch and mobile payments market […]
Silicon Valley, consumer dollars and regulated industries
Anthony Weiner started a new career this past week, writing an opinion piece in Business Insider in which he chastises Tesla, Uber and Airbnb for not knowing how to play politics (eg, […]
Mobile shopping apps and the consumer’s time budget
A study of the free shopping apps in the Android Play store shows that the most popular apps fall into the broad categories that one would reasonably expect without pushing […]
Simple and smart
I was perusing MasterCard’s merchant support site, located here: MasterCard Merchant Rules. There are a number of documents linked from that site, including “MasterCard Rules”, which is 326 pages long. That […]
New technology products and “promise-driven” sales
USA Today recently published a far-ranging interview with Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell in which he had an excellent take on what makes great sales people and a great sales […]
Employee Data Portability in the Marketplace Economy
I was reading a few related articles yesterday about the challenging employment environment for low and middle-income workers in the United States. The gist is that in the economic recovery […]
Saturday Payments Thoughts: ISIS & Coin
Some thoughts on two bits of interesting consumer payments news from this week… ISIS: The carrier-led mobile payments joint venture ISIS launched nationally this week, approximately 3 years after the […]
There is a lot to love about the Airbnb guest experience
Background I stayed at an Airbnb apartment for the first time this past week during a 3 night business trip to San Francisco. Airbnb has been around for 5 years, […]
