Klara Lindner, customer experience lead, Mobisol GmbH, Berlin, Germany, @klaralindner Klara joined Mobisol to lead the pilot phase in east Africa and developed its pioneering business model.
Sources say Hulu, the biggest competitor to Netflix's pioneering business model, had to order two seasons of the forthcoming Hugh Laurie drama Chance to keep it from being sold elsewhere.
Yet as governments put proper frameworks in place and the private sector invested resources and pioneered business models, the communications revolution exploded.
They pioneered alternative business models, which draw on mutual and co-operative traditions.
And just as India, renowned for its technology-services industry, has pioneered clever business models and outsourcing to get prices down and extend access, China has used its own particular strength as a low-cost manufacturer (see article).Rural access elsewhere in the developing world is also likely to improve.
According to a gushing new company profile by Vanity Fair's Kurt Eichenwald, the world's biggest social network is "a widely misunderstood company that has quietly been pioneering a business model unlike any other in Silicon Valley -- or, for that matter, Madison Avenue". Unlike any other, you say?
Is Cridland pioneering a business model that could one day slay H&M and Zara, the Goliaths of fast fashion?
We visited major Indian metros to interact with companies that are pioneering these inclusive business models.
At the same time, there are legitimately successful companies emerging from the froth, and many are pioneering entirely new business models (I put Dropbox and Box at the top of this list).
In this post-Rocket Internet era, startups are pioneering more sustainable business models having learned the lessons of Lazada, which ran out of money before being bought by Alibaba, and Zalora, the parent of which closed a huge downround following issues raising.
WhatsApp is far-and-away the top dog in the messaging space, with more than 600 million active users each month, but Line and other Asian rivals like WeChat in China and Kakao Talk in Korea are interesting because they are pioneering platform-based business models that generate significant revenue.
