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Some thoughts on strategic thinking
“The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson
It is unknown who created the world’s first online store. Many believe it was Jeff Bezos, who registered the company Amazon in 1994 and launched the website in 1995. But on the Internet, you can find information about Charles Stack, who supposedly launched an online bookstore on the domain books.com (which belongs to the bookstore chain Barnes and Noble now) back in 1992. But what we do know is that Jeff Bezos, unlike Stack, became a successful entrepreneur.
He once said that he came up with the idea of Amazon while reading a newspaper article about the growing number of internet users. At first glance, his reasoning looks perfectly logical, but we have to consider that the first Internet Browser, Mosaic, allowing unskilled users to surf the net, was released only in 1993, a year before the article was published. Even in the USA, the numb…