Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper, who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer Internet and digital media companies. He blogs at ...

Most businesspeople are familiar with the product life cycle concept. This concept states that a product has a predictable life cycle from birth to death. But critics of the life cycle concept believe ...

All products experience a life cycle with the horizontal vector being time and the vertical vector being the amplitude of success. Some cycles last for years and others just weeks or even days.

Company Announcement - Businesses, governments, leaders and followers come and go. They all have a natural life-cycle over which they have little control unless they know where they are in the cycle ...

In the counter terrorism profession, most of what we do involves looking for patterns and trends. We draw conclusions from those patterns and use them to help us predict the time and place where we ...

High-tech manufacturers are constantly hounded by customer demands for smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful devices. Companies are continuously introducing new models and adding science-fiction ...