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- April 15, 2014
Indie Phone
Besides Blackphone, Fairphone, we now have Indie Phone, a phone where people own the tool and data. I heard Aral Balkan speak at Drupal Con in Prague a few years ago and he was brilliant. There are two types of entrepreneur, the visionaire and the builder. Aral is definitely the former. My favourite quote from […]
- March 18, 2014
The Problem with Silicon Valley’s Youth
An exceptionally thought-provoking (albeit long) article on virtually everything about the Silicon Valley tech scene. The Web 2.0 checklist: cloud-based, scalable, mobile-friendly. (They are buzzwords, but they are also true) In pursuing the latest and the coolest, young engineers ignore opportunities in less-sexy areas of tech like semiconductors, data storage and networking, the products that […]
- March 13, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 4
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. browserhacks: an extensive list of browser specific CSS and JavaScript hacks from all over the interwebs. titanpad: lets people work on one document simultaneously […]
- March 6, 2014
The Unicorn Club: Billion Dollar Startups
We found 39 companies belong to what we call the “Unicorn Club” (by our definition, U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors). That’s about .07 percent of venture-backed consumer and enterprise software startups. On average, four unicorns were born per year in the past […]
- February 25, 2014
Waves of Innovation
Innovation comes in waves, and as it has been apparent for quite some time now, we are in the age of Social Media. Investors swarm to put big bucks in startups that can return hundreds of millions of dollars (latest example being WhatsApp’s purchase by Facebook) in less than three years. But is this the […]
- February 24, 2014
Twitterstorm
A textbook example of how a Twitterstorm unfolds. Funny because it is oh so true. The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm
- February 21, 2014
Big Data Marketing
We now have a new word for businesses that sell data – data brokers. Third-party data brokers sell all manner of information to businesses, e.g.: Turnstyle, a company that has placed hundreds of sensors throughout businesses in Toronto to gather signals from smartphones as they search for open wi-fi networks. The signals are used to […]
- February 20, 2014
So the biggest news in the tech world now is Facebook’s $19bn purchase of WhatsApp. The founders are now the latest billionaires in the Valley. According to Sequoia Capital (the investors behind WhatsApp), four numbers made the app remarkable: the app has more than 450 million active users. That’s more than Twitter. Note the word […]
- February 5, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 3
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. Crunchbase A free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Its goal is to make information about the startup world […]
- February 4, 2014
The Economist Report on Tech Startups
The Economist has put together a 16-page special report on the rise of technology startups around the world. Very interesting read. TechCrunch did a pretty succinct summary of what’s in the report.
- February 3, 2014
Europe’s Tech Hub?
It helps you warm up with fresh ideas, encourages you to become an entrepreneur. A whole team of cheerleaders is present at the start. And after the first kilometer, with 41 to go, you are on your own. The system bashes you, the entrepreneur, with taxes, asks you to pre-finance VAT, expects you to know […]