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by tj on February 29, 2004
Well this weekend seems to be devoted to emerging markets. Fons operates a great resource for economic information about China the "China Business Infocenter". The site features an...
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by tj on February 29, 2004
Edward has pointed me to his media venture that maintains the LivingIn sites like LivingInIndia and LivingInChina. Dozens of freelance contributors from these countries provide insight into cultural...
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by tj on February 29, 2004
We have launched two new weblogs at Creative Weblogging this weekend. Andrew of the Gadgets Weblog has two interesting pieces: the thinnest 5MB cam and the pocket size pc from IBM......
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by tj on February 29, 2004
Dragos hinted me to this list of fastest growing tech companies in Eastern Europe. Not surprisingly the Czech Republic, Poland and Latvia are leading the pack.......
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by tj on February 29, 2004
Law firms have a status setting them apart for most of the rest of the economy. Restricted in marketing and bewildered by legal restrictions this industry hasn't too much publicity. Now the...
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by tj on February 28, 2004
Karl has pointed me to the weblog from Ghana Ventures an organization that helps Ghanese entrepreneurs. For sure Ghana is not exactly the most entrepreneurial place in the world, but GNVC does a good...
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by tj on February 27, 2004
Tucows a one does-it-all internet company with respectable revenues of $37 million has acquired the blog link manager. Too bad we have no data about valuation..........
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by tj on February 27, 2004
Projectsenso has a nice summary of typical challenges for Singaporean entrepreneurs:"He commented that Singapore Entrepreneurs are often: averse to "corporate life" confident in their...
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by tj on February 26, 2004
Cnet has a great article about actual concerns for Dell. Maybe it's because of all these Indian call centers?......
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by tj on February 26, 2004
Wharton@Work has an extensive and superbly researched link collection about topics such as: Succession Planning Revolutionizing Marketing Working in an Uncertain World Wharton ROI --- Return on...
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by tj on February 26, 2004
I was writing about audience management - the art to match visitors and content of huge websites - a while ago. I asked about German startups in this area and now Ulrich Hegge pointed me to his...
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by tj on February 26, 2004
Fast Company also covers recent developments in outsourcing. What's surprising for me is that outsourcing is presented as a tool to make any company more competitive. Outsourcing can only produce...
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by tj on February 26, 2004
Fast Company has a good one how to support serendipity and produce an innovation: "Something magical happens when you bring together a group of people from different disciplines with a common...
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by tj on February 25, 2004
The last link from Rajesh, he has an interview from Forbes about Opsware, which develops a tool that let's you manage your network of many servers and workstations much more centralized. I would...
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by tj on February 25, 2004
Rajesh links to another interesting fact - an empirical MIT study about success of software startups. "A key finding is that sales-force productivity is an excellent predictor of long-term...
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by tj on February 25, 2004
Rajesh post more about alibaba.com. "Alibaba.com seems to be off to a strong start. Founder Mr. Jack Ma says the company has nearly three million users in 200 countries and attracts nearly 6,000...
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by tj on February 25, 2004
Rob links to a new study about how people (mis-)perceive risks. It's a tricky problem I'm pondering about regularly. It is very difficult to make a good guess about a risk even if you know the...
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by tj on February 25, 2004
Wired highlights how to reap profits from open source citing MySQL. "To make money, MySQL adopted what Urlocker calls a dual-license model. Under this scheme, users can get the product for free...
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by tj on February 25, 2004
Emirates the truly exceptional airline is according to this article bullish for expansion. Emirates especially targets economy travelers going to Asia from Europe or from the Middle East to North...
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by tj on February 24, 2004
The FAZ has a nice piece on the Samwer brothers, who created alando.de the predecessor of ebay.de and Jamba. Jamba started in 2000 with the goal to partcipate in the mobile content business. The...
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by tj on February 23, 2004
Stelios Haji-Ioannou seems to have too much free time recently. After trying to take the discount pricing model from Easyjet to several other industries he is now ripe for the mobile phone market....
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by tj on February 22, 2004
Eli Noam predicts in a FT article the failure of the media industry to adapt to the ongoing commodization in the industry. "The basic structural reason for this problem is that information...
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by tj on February 21, 2004
Techdirt pointed me to a new Google News competitor. Topix selects content from thousands of sources and rearranges this in easy to understand categories. It also features RSS feeds for these...
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by tj on February 21, 2004
Fast Company portrays 3 CEO with guts - great guideline. "Panera (still called the Saint Louis Bread Co. in St. Louis, where it originated) has been the darling of both customers seeking an...
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by tj on February 19, 2004
Fenwick & West has published the actual statistics for Silicon Valley VC investments. It supports the argument of a slow but steady improvement of VC investments in the region. "Probably the...
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by tj on February 18, 2004
When did you raise $82 million last time? Probably a while ago, but alibaba.com just announced a big institutional semi-IPO. China-based Alibaba.com has been profitable for a while now and produces...
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by tj on February 18, 2004
Now Morpheus, a p2p software tool goes VoIP. Interesting sales channel indeed. However Earthstation5 launched with many extra features of useful applications. I never heard of them again.......
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by tj on February 18, 2004
Fast Company reports on Porter's newest topic - strategy. It's incredible how strong he hits the zeitgeist again. Competitive analysis was a major topic during economic consolidation in the...
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by tj on February 18, 2004
AP has made the outsourcing plans of Siemens public. "The German firm Siemens will move most of the 15,000 software programming jobs from its offices in the United States and Western Europe to...
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