Crowdfunding no longer attracts the novelty-driven attention it did a decade ago. Social media reach is harder to obtain, advertising is more expensive and potential backers have seen enough failed projects to be cautious. Yet crowdfunding has not disappeared. It has matured into a more specialised financing and market-validation tool.…
Europe’s political communication has given rise to a new paradox: today, “saving” does not mean making the state apparatus more efficient, but in practice the exact opposite: a constant additional burden on businesses and citizens. This phenomenon is particularly striking in Austria, one of the countries with the highest tax…
Whether it’s a trip to the local government office, a visit to the bank, or media consumption – more and more services are shifting from traditional counters and offices directly into households. What once was done personally by trained staff is now handled via apps, web portals, or machines. Public…
Migration, whether rural to urban or urban to rural (Rural vs Urban Migration), involves the movement of people from one area to another. The key differences between these two types of migration are the origin and destination of the migrants, along with the reasons and impacts of their movement. Rural…
The term inflation refers to the increase in the prices of goods and services. It is usually caused by the decrease in the purchasing power of a currency. More often than not, when discussing this topic, people think of its effects on consumers. However, the impacts of inflation are usually…
This article describes how market prices could be used to set the right incentive to achieve long term growth (via long-term pricing). These days – in general – you need to have market power to be profitable. Market power means you need to a have a significant market share or…
Though the first companies to ‘go digital‘ did so as far back as the 90s, many industries and individual businesses have been putting off their digital transformation for decades. In the vast majority of these cases, the original decision to hold off on digitizing was a wise one. The industry…
