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22.05.12 01:27
If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to separate the ways that people use apps into four categories. 1. Time wasters: Apps that can be used for short bursts when you are waiting in line, etc. [...]
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Four types of mobile apps
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An internet of people
worldspy -
19.12.11 22:52
Over the past few years, a bunch of web-based marketplaces have gotten popular – Etsy, Kickstarter, AirBnb, to name a few. Many of these business ideas had been tried before but are succeeding only now. When a trend like this emerges, it’s always interesting to ask “why now?” For example, for almost a decade, entrepreneurs [...] Kommentare: (0)
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Growth curves of startups
worldspy -
08.12.11 01:41
Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues, pageviews, etc. A graph I’d love to see is those metrics, graphed over time, for a wide variety of startups. From my experience, you’d be surprised how often those graphs show sudden growth. Something happens in the world (an “exogenous [...] Kommentare: (0)
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There are two kinds of people in the world
KMR -
27.04.11 09:16
You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. It means starting with no money, no help, no one who believes in you (except perhaps your closest friends and family), and building an organization from a borrowed cubicle with credit card debt and nowhere... Kommentare: (2)
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Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry
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09.06.10 08:28
With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the history of business: he single-handedly upended the power structure of a major industry. In the US, before the iPhone, the carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile) had an ironclad grip on the rest of the value chain – particularly, handset...Kommentare: (4)
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Nachrichten sind auch für Google kein gutes Geschäft
KMR -
08.03.10 08:22
There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google has devised a brilliant business model that avoids paying for news gathering yet profits off the search ads sold around that content.”
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