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The Business of Culture: July 2010
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The Business of Culture. The business of innovation and design, across markets and cultures. Vê este blog em portugês. Tuesday, July 20, 2010. A few weeks ago (but I am only writing about it now) I visited. A logging company certified by the FSC which harvests Amazonian hardwoods for construction and home interiors. Different trees, with different natural coloring and density. Generally, trees that are harvested are 15 inches or more in diameter, and only at the rate of 1 or 2 per acre per year . Until t...
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The Business of Culture: May 2010
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The Business of Culture. The business of innovation and design, across markets and cultures. Vê este blog em portugês. Monday, May 31, 2010. Another angle to the designer living room industry (see the Designer Living Room post. I found myself, one weekend, at the Viva a Mata event in Ibirapuera park in São Paulo (read about it in more detail here. Links to this post. Wednesday, May 19, 2010. A New York digital agency is moving in to the Brazilian market. How will it be received? The working class (Classe...
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The Business of Culture: August 2010
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The Business of Culture. The business of innovation and design, across markets and cultures. Vê este blog em portugês. Friday, August 20, 2010. Passing through Old Chillán. Feels world-class to the locals. None of this would have bothered me much if the hotel had priced and marketed itself as a roadside ski lodge. Which is to say that despite the excellent service and good food, the Pirimahuida Hotel didn't feel any more world-class (to us) than the other wooden roadside hotels in the area.
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The Business of Culture: June 2010
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The Business of Culture. The business of innovation and design, across markets and cultures. Vê este blog em portugês. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Sustainable Widgets of Wood. If the best way to merge eco- and social responsibility into a business is through market-driven forces (i.e., generating market demand for it, see the posting on Demand-Driven Sustainability. There are systems that do this well, like Energy Star. There are also organizations that don't do this so well, like Fair Trade. Which takes a ...
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The Business of Culture: The Culture of Seed Funding
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The Business of Culture. The business of innovation and design, across markets and cultures. Vê este blog em portugês. Tuesday, September 21, 2010. The Culture of Seed Funding. Distinguished themselves from the rest of the top 23 through preparation: it takes a good idea to place but winning is all about how buttoned up your business pitch is. However, of the 4 winning Desafio Brasil concepts, I see 3 of them as big fish in a small (Brazilian) pond, and they are not the best concepts to compete in th...
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The Business of Culture: September 2010
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The Business of Culture. The business of innovation and design, across markets and cultures. Vê este blog em portugês. Tuesday, September 21, 2010. The Culture of Seed Funding. Distinguished themselves from the rest of the top 23 through preparation: it takes a good idea to place but winning is all about how buttoned up your business pitch is. However, of the 4 winning Desafio Brasil concepts, I see 3 of them as big fish in a small (Brazilian) pond, and they are not the best concepts to compete in th...