Over the past few weeks, Concitor Managing Partner Charles Kwon has been sharing insights on COVID-19 with members of our community through a newsletter. We wanted to share the post publicly here.
Infections rates are declining in many regions — and governments are starting to get a better handle on how to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. In the coming weeks, more targeted public health measures paired with a phased opening of the economy will usher in a new “transitional norm” that will define the business landscape for the next 9–18 months.
The shift will expose the breadth of disruption that…
Over the past few weeks, Concitor Managing Partner Charles Kwon has been sharing insights on COVID-19 with members of our community through a newsletter. We wanted to share the post publicly here.
The other week, I shared a few steps that proactive executives can take to protect and position their business for success during this time of unprecedented disruption.
Today, the curve is finally starting to flatten — and executives need to be prepared to act.
Here are the key opportunities we see for executives as the COVID-19 curve flattens:
Business-to-Consumer (B-to-C) executives:
- A “burst of consumer spending” driven by…
Over the past few weeks, Concitor Managing Partner Charles Kwon has been sharing insights on COVID-19 with members of our community through a newsletter. We wanted to share the post publicly here.
Today, we are in a time of unprecedented disruption.
And while the scale of the pandemic is unique, we believe proactive executives with the insight and intelligence to anticipate the impact of COVID-19 on their business will be in the best position to protect and position their organization for success in the future.
The team at Concitor is here to help. The partners of Concitor have decades of…
Our Model Tells Us It’s More Than Just Speculation
By Charles Kwon and Steven Jacobs
A few months ago, we set out to answer a very basic question: what actually drives the valuation of cryptocurrencies? The question arose in response to a recurring quip we heard from some skeptical business leaders: that outside of speculation, there was no fundamental logic driving the billion dollar valuations of cryptocurrencies.
We strongly disagreed, but what we found in the existing body of work was not convincing. On the one end, there was a plethora of extremely specific technical analyses; on the other, there were well-thought out, but highly qualitative thought pieces about…
But the Emerging Business Model That Blockchain Enables Could
By: Charles Kwon, May Pao, Steven Jacobs, Ivan Chong, Carol Pegnato
In the decades we have spent studying disruption, few innovations have proven as divisive and confounding to our partners as blockchain. The astronomical growth of cryptocurrency valuations during 2017 pushed a still-early innovation to the center of the global stage and forced executives and leaders to take a stand on the movement — often before spending the time to understand its implications.
The result is a group of smart, forward-thinking newcomers to blockchain who can smell the opportunity but cannot quite see it. The basic themes around decentralization are…
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