Tag Archive | "strategy"
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Seth Weintraub (Fortune) explains why Google is less and less a search company: Google generates less than 70% of revenues from search, and it’s decreasing. YouTube revenues are growing very quickly, and has the potential to “push search-related revenues below 50%”. Google said that its Apps business “is growing faster than [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Authors Barry Eisler (who turned down a half-million dollars offer from a publisher) and Joe Konrath explain why they have chosen digital self-publishing: Price: data shows that digital books are a prince-sensitive market. Publishers are pricing digital books very high (presumably to protect paper sales). On the contrary, Joe sells 3,000 [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Given its track record (Google, PayPal, LinkedIn, Zappos, YouTube, etc.), it should come as no surprise that the advice of Sequioa Capital is worth listening to. According to the venture capital firm, start-ups sharing some of these characteristics increase their chances of becoming enduring companies: Clarity of purpose: “Summarize the company’s [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Podio, a danish startup that has received $4.5 m in funding, will unveil tomorrow how it intends to reinvent collaboration in the workplace. faberNovel had the chance to take a look at this offer before its launch. Podio‘s approach offers some continuity with the current trends in IT for the workplace, [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: HP CEO Leo Apotheker laid out his strategy on March 14th. According to him, HP need to shift from computing and enterprise hardware to smartphone, tablet and cloud computing. Or, in Leo’s own words, “our vision is to provide seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world“. The world’s largest tech [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Dropbox has now become synonymous of painless files synchronization. While the concept may not sound very original, Dropbox delivered an elegant, fast and simple solution for its users: users drop files in a folder that gets synchronized automatically between computers (and even smartphones): this workflow does not require using another software [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Best software are opinionated, i.e.: They provide their users with a consistent vision. They do not try to make everyone happy. They seek out customers who are actually partners. A great example is the original wiki design. Ward Cunningham and friends deliberately stripped the wiki of many features that were considered [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Google is apparently ready to take on phone companies: its Google Voice service is rumored to support the SIP VoIP standard. In layman’s terms, this means that you would theoretically be able to make (and receive) a phone call without the expensive voice plan your phone companies is selling you — [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Should you focus on UX or on shipping a product as soon as possible? In other words, when is it the right time for a startup to launch? Yet precise, the answer summary (“If your UX is not good, then you can solve the problems during your prototyping stage. Otherwise ship, [...]
March 23, 2011, New York, NY: Big Data Means Big Money That “fire hose” of information pouring through your company’s databases and systems? That data, whether real-time or historic, presents an enormous opportunity to gain business insights to maximize profits and improve products. Structure Big Data, GigaOM’s newest conference, is focused on helping technology executives [...]
