The Curse of the Mogul
by Bruce C. Greenwald · first published 2011
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If you are aiming for more than a lifestyle business, read The Curse of the Mogul [1][2]. It's a graduate level course in formal business strategy disguised as a fun and easily readable analysis of why the media industry is so broken. The author is a Columbia business school professor…
on “Ask HN: Recommend books for a software developer opening a business” ↗…outside. If we had some model where states and municipalities weren't cash-strapped I think they'd end up saving money in the long term. ---- As for the media I was just looking at the 2009 book The Curse of the Mogul https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Mogul-Worlds-Leading-Companies/... which makes the case that media conglomerates had a history of structurally underperforming compared to smaller media companies. Around…
on “The Local-News Crisis Is Weirdly Easy to Solve” ↗