Tag Archive | "strategy"
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: The Startup Genome project released a report aiming at “cracking the code innovation” and identifying the patterns of successful Internet startups. Here are three salient features of the report: The Marmer Stages: the startup lifecycle is made of 6 stages of development (the report only deals with the first four stages). [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: James Slavet (Greylock Partners) explains what are the seven signs of a customer-focused CEO: Make it easy get in touch with customer service Be obsessed about details of the customer experience, even if it’s economically irrational (e.g. the experience you get whenever you un-box an Apple product) Be out on the [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Shane Mac is the founder of Hello There (a hosted résumé page) and provides us with inspiring tips: What you think people should pay for, may be what they think should be free. While Shane intended to have users pay for videos, he then understood that most of them thought it [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: It is now obvious that Amazon.com’s rumored tablets are only a question of time. While most articles focuses on the technical specifications of these tablets, this article lays out the reasons why Amazon.com’s strategy is sound and logical. All images are excerpts from our study about Earth’s largest e-retailer: Amazon.com: the [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: In his report for the Facebook Developer Garage held in France, Maxime Sarri argues that social design is now the true core of Facebook’s offer. The Open Graph uses metadata (namely, <meta> tags in your HTML file header) to streamline users’ social interactions with rich objects (web pages, videos, images…): when [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Mashape describes itself as Etsy for APIs. This website makes it easy for developers to distribute and get traction with their APIs. Mashape CEO Augusto Marietti explains his vision about the role of API in the data economy: Ten years ago, only large companies would develop and release APIs. Today, startup [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Why is Larry Page so worried about Facebook? Web openness: Facebook is mostly closed to Google’s web crawlers Business model: Facebook corners 23.1 % of the display ads market, leaving only 2.7 % to Google (source) Value chain: Google and Facebook ultimately compete for users’ attention. Just as Android emerged as [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Amazon.com’s Kindle paves the way for companies facing disruption. The company followed a two steps rationale: Understand what your business is about: Amazon.com’s business is not to sell books. Its business is to give access to a cultural object called “book”. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ vision for Kindle is “every book [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: You might have heard the words “casual gaming” and “gamification” a lot these days. Thanks to mobile devices and social networks, games are reaching new customers. Publishers target these “casual gamers” with simpler gameplay, no required continuous commitment (you can play in short bursts) and new business models (low pay-per-downloads price [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Gameloft’s strategy has been twofold: Buying licensing rights (like Avatar, UNO, Shrek, SplinterCell) Most interestingly, deliberately copying established games. This segment generate 58 % of Gameloft’s revenues, and features games like Gangstar (copy of Grand Theft Auto), Eternal Legacy (Final Fantasy), Modern Warfare (Call of Duty), The Settlers (Civilization). It has proven [...]
