Most of my articles have focused on start-up business development for two reasons: First, people come to Built In Chicago to read about start-ups and, second, they represent a large portion of my ...

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For Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz, commoditization is a double-edged sword. On his own blog, Schwartz says he doesn’t buy the argument that the computing industry is commoditizing. But as ...

Your company sells unique and differentiated products—or at least that's what you think. However, your competitors have been trying to match you or maybe offering similar products at a lower price.

Thanks to technology, the world is a lot smaller than it used to be. We have access to anything we want via the internet, brought directly to our door. We can easily communicate with project teams no ...

With ever greater competition due to a plethora of lawyers, attentive legal services providers and non-lawyers, involved in delivering services that were once exclusive to lawyers, the ability of law ...

Many industries, including advertising, are becoming saturated with competitors of all sizes, to the point where the products and services we produce and provide, are becoming commoditized.

Technology acquisition decisions in any well-run company are based on the return-on-investment that a purchase will produce. This is what differentiates business customers from consumers, who buy to ...

It would be easier to pick a stock that could double its price in one year than to read about Fitbit Inc ( FIT) stock without reading - for the umpteenth time - how it is performing woefully this year ...