[journal] businesses now in a distributed economy
My journal posts may contain incomplete thoughts or ramblings... Don't read this as something fully formed. This is mostly for me, and if you find it interesting, that's cool too.
Some things on my mind with business development. Monopolies versus a healthier, more distributed, economy. How does this influence the creation of startups that are designed to be acquired by monopolies (the aqui-hire model of getting the 'medium reward' [Doctorow]) vs startups trying to build sustainable businesses that could consider linear (slope can be piecewise!) growth? Are the ones /designed/ to be acquired by monopolies always vc-backed (and pressured) accelerated companies? What does the current system bias for?
Comparing the US to the EU is quite interesting. It seems France really values a distributed economy, and is willing to have things 'work more slowly' to keep a human experience alive. Of course there are big stores like Fnac, Darty, Leroy Merlin, etc... But there are so many smaller stores, too.
Comparing this to the US... The smaller stores are really often killed; or considering the economy, have to jack their prices high to stay alive (or is it that Amazon is jacking their prices low to kill competition? probably that.)
Currently reading (listening to) Enshittification by Cory Doctorow.