Media, Digital and Mobile Business in a Global Economy
Google’s Brilliantly Cuckoo Strategy: Zero Cost Customer Aquisition
The Cuckoo is a very clever bird. He lays his eggs in the nest of other birds, and let them take care of their eggs even after eggs are hatched. Operating System Google strategy have many similarities and is not duplicable.
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Seven Takeaways for Tech Startup Fund Raising
As a global executive in the mobile tech sector, I have been fortunate to build reliable and trusted relationships with many venture capitalists (VCs) from three continents. For various projects combined I have raised north of $US80 million through more than ten rounds of venture capital financing from China, USA, France, UK, and Germany.
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News To Follow the Delinearization of Music and Video. What are the consequences ?
In my previous post, I predict that the news industry will follow a similar trend as has digital music and digital video, evolving through a massive delinearization of content on mobile. The success of Yahoo News on the web, cumulating with the facts that six of the top 10 news applications are aggregators on Google Application Store, as are five out of the top 20 apps on US appstores, confirm this trend.
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News To Follow the Delinearization of Music and Video
In the last ten years worldwide the music industry value chain has been fully reshuffled by iTunes and some early predecessors. In the last five years the video industry has been changing with the massive international success of YouTube. News content is next to see this scale of international change.
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Dad, I want to be an inventor
For the past few years, my son has been repeating that he wants to be an inventor, and he’s been coming up with all kinds of crazy ideas – like many kids do. What’s great about childhood, is that all your ideas work instantly – because kids can’t quite tell the difference between dreams, ideas and reality. But my son is now 11, and he is starting to put his ideas to work, and “real reality” kicks in.
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