They have become increasingly focused on the company's valuable Asian holdings, which Ms. Bartz has failed to monetize — or even make a persuasive case for keeping.
Gartner recently estimated that through 2018, "80% of IoT implementations will squander transformational opportunities" and fail to monetize IoT data.
There is definitely a unique failure mode in which OAS companies go too open and fail to monetize sufficiently.
"As a result they fail to monetize the customers, often wearing them out with expensive and pointless promotional messaging.
We've all watched from the sidelines as companies have come out in a burst of glory, and then, two years later, spent their venture capital, lost their user base, and failed to monetize.
Bump, which let users tap phones together to share contacts and other files, raised nearly $20 million and enjoyed high download rates, but failed to monetize successfully as other easy, mobile-friendly ways to share information were developed, most notably Apple's AirDrop for iOS 7. Flock is a collaborative photo-sharing app Bump Technologies released in 2012.
If I had failed to monetize at a profit, I could have called JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to claim it was a hedge, since he had the nerve to pull that one when he appeared before Congress to explain billions of dollars in losses on credit derivatives bets in his London CIO unit.
But the sentiment often expressed in reaction to those who oppose trolls, or patent assertion entities (PAEs), is that they're not all bad, and, in fact, "make it easier for a failed startup to monetize its patents, providing some insurance for venture capitalists".
The second category of benefit that G.D.P. not only fails to countenance but, according to Philipsen, actively destroys is social capital, which, as part of a gross-domestic-product regime, must be monetized or ultimately devalued.
The reality, though, is that far more digital companies have made an initial splash only to fail in finding a way to monetize their user base.
Twitter management while investing is media streaming and niche changes to the website, have failed to grasp the opportunities that Facebook and LinkedIn have in monetizing their users by advertising or selling subscriptions for communities and lifestyles.
