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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. The traditional Sears market was niched up across big box retailers like Best Buy, clothiers like Kohls, tool stores like Home Depot, parts retailers like AutoZone, and soft goods stores like Bed, Bath & Beyond. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.”

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. Mac’s unique features were shadowed by the premium price.

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

“Lean value” focus: This approach is supported by the nature of the market. It is full of entrepreneurs, customers, markets and capital that happen at the same time. So, probably dozens of entrepreneurs are working on the same idea at the same time; the market will falsify most wrong assumptions quickly.