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by tj on April 29, 2004
The Economist has a nice piece on the ringtone business. "Ringtone sales were $3.5 billion worldwide last year, up by 40% from 2002, according to ARC Group, a consultancy. Europe and Asia lead...
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by tj on April 29, 2004
You might say this is just one of the outsourcing backlash articles as a company discovers their outsourced work was not ready to be outsourced. What is different it features Indian entrepreneurs in...
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by tj on April 29, 2004
If we believe in this NYT article we should think so. "This year, women own a 50 percent or larger stake in 10.6 million privately held companies, the Center for Women's Business Research...
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by tj on April 28, 2004
Maybe we are now seeing a bigger adoption of spend and sourcing software. Ketera a US provider of spend management tools managed to finalize a series C with the help of Capital Partners and Kleiner...
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by tj on April 27, 2004
The World Economic Forum released it's 2004 report on the Lisbon goals set by the European Union to become the world most competitive region. The report (pdf) shows that there is much to do to...
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by tj on April 27, 2004
The Ecomomist also sheds light on the rise of the low-cost carriers - lower entry barriers. "Another factor behind the rush of start-ups is the availability of off-the-shelf software that runs...
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by tj on April 27, 2004
The Economist has a good article supporting the argument that big innovation is getting more and more difficult - instead the small improvements can change the world... "Big companies have a big...
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by tj on April 27, 2004
This is an article back from 1999 - just 5 years and so much difference... "The startup, of course, was Hotmail, a company that has become a legend among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for its...
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by tj on April 26, 2004
this weeks Carnival of the Capitalists.........
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by tj on April 26, 2004
This article has good insights of the work of John A. Byrne who is the major force relaunching Fast Company, one of my favorite publications after the bust. "This was a great opportunity. I never...
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by tj on April 26, 2004
This Knowledge at Wharton article is support the argument of "smart money" that became one of the buzz words of the bust. "If a company borrows from a bank and the terms are similar, it...
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by tj on April 26, 2004
If you feel the desire to start your own company and if you feel you would like to go for a fast growing one, try these 30 excellent hints how to select your business. "- It has to be a......
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by tj on April 26, 2004
The Netflix business model is probably the one discussed most by European entrepreneurs in 2003. I just learned about (a shame I did not realize this earlier) that Hamburg features another DVD rental...
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by tj on April 22, 2004
Jeff discovers the backlink functionality of Bloglines that enables you to see public profiles of readers that like the blogs you like. Neat.......
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by tj on April 22, 2004
Ventureblog has an excellent (as usual) entry about venture lending.......
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by tj on April 22, 2004
Interesting thoughts...my choice would be SF naturally :-) "San Francisco and Silicon Valley are more of a meritocracy than any place I have ever been. Discrimination in SF is based more on...
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by tj on April 22, 2004
Guess before you click if you could still make it to the Forbes list in your life... Thanks Rob !......
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by tj on April 22, 2004
Well this is the other face of venture capital: "All of this is the nature of the beast, capitalism in its truest form. But many of the ground rules from the last cycle will hold true in this...
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by tj on April 22, 2004
Scalix the Linux based e-mail and calendaring software developer has secure another 6 million. Scalix is an interesting alternative to the security flawed MS Exchange platform.......
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by tj on April 21, 2004
Friendity the German Friendster is ending the beta phase. Good news - not exactly as the Friendity newsletter says Friendity is shutting down as satisfaction with user numbers has not been reached....
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by tj on April 21, 2004
is the message of US Federal Communication Commission Chairman Michael Powell: "Broadcasting is the original mass media. On the other end, there's a rise of a digital generation that has...
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by tj on April 21, 2004
The Businessweek has a good article on managing the virtual teams that have become commonplace for most start-ups. "Many new businesses are "virtual companies," in which entrepreneurs...
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by tj on April 20, 2004
Well this idea is not exactly rocket science - some years ago several start-ups mostly unsuccessfully tried their luck in building citywide coverage with Wifi networks. Now its Metrofi trying to...
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by tj on April 20, 2004
kottke.org is writing about the new Google OS which is having Google as a main one-stop location for the TOP 5 internet service powered by the most powerful parallel computing platform on earth:...
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by tj on April 19, 2004
You might find it surprising but Jamba the baby of Germany's well-known serial entrepreneurs the Samwer brothers got an extra cash infusion for their US expansion of mostly ringt tones sales from...
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by tj on April 19, 2004
Believe it or not but the famous maker of the spyware is heading for an IPO: "Critics have also blasted the company for not fully explaining to users the impact of its software, which sends...
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by tj on April 19, 2004
Tende.de a German company that had the vision to provide you an affordable lifestyle manager has gone out of business. I always admired how they could hold on their business after the bust as these...
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by tj on April 19, 2004
to kick start developing economies argues a new and very interesting research from McKinsey. The main line of arguments says that productivity enforced by strong competition is much better then any...
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by tj on April 19, 2004
I got a very kind invitation from re:invention a weblog dedicated to women entrepreneurs. A wonderful site that blames women's business plans for getting less VC investments and Kirsten asks how...
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by tj on April 19, 2004
the The Knowledge Problem is up. Enjoy!......
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by tj on April 18, 2004
In case you are preparing a pitch for a well-known customer Fast Company has a new art of pitching for you: "The Fitch fastball pitch is actually a high, hard one. It's all about speed,...
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