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by tj on December 26, 2003
CNET has an good roundup of growing interest of VCs into nanotech. "Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the influential Silicon Valley investment firm that has generally steered clear of...
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by tj on December 26, 2003
BW has an interesting portrait of ctrip.com. "Now, it seems that their wait is coming to an end. This month, Shanghai-based travel site Ctrip.com went public on Nasdaq -- and the stock price...
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by tj on December 25, 2003
Auctiondrop a provider of eBay drop-off service has recieved $3 million in a thrid round of funding. The drop-off business model, means establishing stores and taking a provision for sold items. This...
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by tj on December 23, 2003
Professor Bainbridge thinks about the explanation for the different type of vertical integration for both quite similar fast food chains. Paul Jaminet goes even deeper in the economic theory to...
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by tj on December 22, 2003
The Economist has another thought provoking article in the last issue. It argues that strong liberalization even with developing bubbles and unavoidable contractions help growth more than so much...
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by tj on December 22, 2003
Jochen has brushed up the ebizz talk archives in the end of the year. The ebizz talk is a very interesting monthly gathering in Hamburg attracting e-business professionals from Northern Germany. If...
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by tj on December 21, 2003
The NYT reports about emerging satellite radio, a form of media I never thought it would compete effectively. But with better coverage and improved receivers it seems to be still a risky investment...
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by tj on December 21, 2003
The NYT has a nice review of Vonage's product and services.......
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by tj on December 21, 2003
I've been pondering with the hotspot business model in 2002 as well. It seemed always quite difficult to convince on-the-spot users to pay for access (i.e. hotels, airports etc.). It's not...
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by tj on December 19, 2003
Kanoodle the "bid-for-location" search engine has announced an undisclosed amount of investment from Insight Venture Partners. Kanoodle also took in two senior managers from Sprinks. This...
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by tj on December 18, 2003
The Economist also sheds light on the emerging business with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). "Today, at least 32 countries are developing a total of more than 250 models of UAV, and 41 countries...
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by tj on December 18, 2003
The Economist nicely summarizes the new developments on outsourcing during the last 6 months. The most interesting new finding is surely the often cited McKinsey calculation on how much value...
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by tj on December 18, 2003
If you found yourself pondering about your personal shopping strategy during your latest Xmas shopping session, this might raise your mood: "One of the study's key takeaways for people who...
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by tj on December 18, 2003
Knowledge@Wharton has a nice insight on the nature of venture capital in Asia: "Doing business in Asia takes a long time," added Hendrik Susanto, a San Francisco-based principal with IDG...
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by tj on December 18, 2003
Some months ago I wrote first time about Vmware. Now the company's directors agreed to an offer from EMC worth $ 635 million. The company received an investment from Veritas worth $5 million and...
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Filed in archive by tj on December 17, 2003
As you might have noticed, I've been offline for the last 24 hours. It might be still shaky for the whole day. A hard drive crash at my ISP has brought my weblog back to the past. The last 20......
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by tj on December 15, 2003
That has been a bullet point in the outlook section of any business plan about marketplaces some years back. It now happens at ebay. ebay is selling pricing data for certain heavily traded product...
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by tj on December 15, 2003
Wired has more on shifting paradigms for online music distribution: "The group on Wednesday issued an initial set of technology specifications in a bid to create a system in which users would...
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by tj on December 15, 2003
Narasimha Chari has an interesting post about acceleration of product lifecycles with anecdotal evidence from many consumer electronic products. Good read.......
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by tj on December 15, 2003
Fast Company offers a handsome guide for dealing with success and competitive pressures with the help of ancient philosophy. "The greatest case of mistaken identity in modern society relates to...
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by tj on December 15, 2003
Steven Johnson has more on lifelogs, a topic surprisingly discussed to a lesser degree in the last months. (via emergic.org)......
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by tj on December 15, 2003
This is a bold statement by Reinhard Sprenger a self appointed management guru. But besides his marketing statements he has some good points. (Translated by myself) "The reason for a...
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by tj on December 15, 2003
Some years back the saying was "Instead of digging for gold, just sell the shovels". Now Loudeye wants to sell the shovels for online music stores. According to this article Loudeye will...
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by tj on December 15, 2003
The NYT has a rather interesting article about. "Sometimes repeat entrepreneurs have to be shoved out before they learn that their talents apply to start-ups, not to running bigger companies....
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by tj on December 14, 2003
The World Economic Forum has selected annual Tech Pioneers 2004. There are plenty of such lists, but a view at prior years selections shows a good sense for successful companies of the commitee.......
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by tj on December 14, 2003
Rajesh has an interesting article: "The 'new new economy' way - one that recognises that well-educated human minds are as much of a commodity as any standards-compatible central...
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by tj on December 13, 2003
Dan Gillmor has some interesting perspectives of the future of TV using Hongkong as the test marketplace. Especially the pricing model is innovative - Digital TV in Hongkong is sold on a per channel...
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by tj on December 13, 2003
It is probably not what you would expect, but have a look by yourself.......
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by tj on December 12, 2003
There is another good and free article from Fast Company. It reflects on an interesting thought - are we really running out of scarcity? I think not, but the author has some good points:...
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by tj on December 11, 2003
Loic plans to infect the World Economic Forum with the weblog virus. There have been so many clever thoughts it's hard top add something. I totally agree with Loic's main thesis that weblogs...
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by tj on December 11, 2003
I was reporting some weeks ago about mobile.de, due to be sold. It's only competitor Autoscout24.de has now been acquired by T-Online<. T-online actually buys the parent company, Switzerland...
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