Smartphone Business Models

Every business, market and industry will be permanently reshaped by the Smartphone Wars. Life and commerce as it was will no longer exist. Remake your business now. Or, perish.

Blog posts that help reveal the global transformation in work, wealth, opportunity, employment, experience and networking are archived in the pages and posts that follow.

Typically, these posts touch upon smartphone-led business models (see below) as they reshape commerce, community, wealth, influence, knowledge, work and the leveling of power and opportunity around the globe.

Combined, I call their effect the Great Leveling. They are a direct consequence of the global smartphone wars. In fact, each of these new business models have at least one core driver in common: they can *only* thrive thanks to the rapid, global spread of the smartphone and mobile web.

These include:

• Values Equal Profits: today's entrepreneurs found businesses that embrace their values with the intent of sharing and spreading those values
• Boring is Death: we now can overlay real-time information, collaboration and gaming engines on everything and no one ever needs to be bored again (analysts have started calling this "gamification")
• Think Locally Scale Globally: satisfy a single need for those who are right here, right now, and then quickly replicate that all over the world
• Virtual is Real: we are not porting ourselves into a virtual reality, but porting the virtual into our reality, permanently altering what we each experience and perceive and care about
• Angel Babies: for the first time in the history of humanity, the very tools that adults use each day for work, connectivity, influence and wealth generation are in the hands of children. And they better understand, leverage, re-make and profit from these tools. 
• Right Here Right Now: the only time is...now. The only place is...here. Meet this standard.

Each of these business trends are leveraging the spread of virtually free, widely accessible, infinitely scalable and exceedingly powerful technologies and platforms for real-time buying, selling, making and marketing, downloading and distributing.

As such, they are actively and rapidly destroying existing markets, industries, leveling competition, shifting power, redistributing wealth and creating a fundamentally new world. These business models represent the future of prosperity!  

The smartphone is the computer! Leverage its power, America!