Cutting its head count, doubling down on the demographic it understands and building a lean new product is exactly what Yik Yak should have done with its remaining venture capital.
If there is a single demographic that understands, accepts, even relishes change... it's women over 50.
It is the quasi-collective voice of a fairly narrow demographic, as DeLillo understands it: mostly white, educated, middle- or upper-class; and often employed in the intertwined realms of media, finance, arts and culture, academia, and politics.
"More and more companies are deploying analytics solutions to help predict retention and correlate factors such as compensation, travel schedule, manager and demographics to understand why certain people are less engaged than others," said Josh Bersin, a principal at Deloitte Consulting.
An artist who understands the demographic makeup of his audience, David Guetta has revealed that his new single will be a remix of nursery classic If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands.
It's easier to communicate an idea to a demographic that a founder understands, and if that idea resonates, leverage the network effects.
We argue that the full three dimensional diagram is not necesarily a practical way to represent demographic data, but that it forms a useful reference to understand demographic structure.
"Anyone who understands the demographics of the city and particularly of that area understands that there's a great opportunity there".
Ensign clearly understands the demographics that rejected failed candidate Sharron Angle and should choose to avoid the anti-immigrant brand that ended her political aspirations.
Population ecology builds upon these introductory models to further understand demographic processes in real study populations.
