Posted on 02 January 2012.
The seemingly unlikely Mexican and Swedish founding duo of Ludwig Mendez and Marcus Fütö have come together to create the commute and transportation app Omniflit. The story begins when Mendez moved from Mexico to Sweden to start a Master’s degree, and while settling into a slightly chillier country to study he also got involved in [...]
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Posted on 24 November 2011.
I just came across an interview with Mark Cuban for the Wall Street Journal where he voices some remarkable opinions coming from a successful entrepreneur when they move the conversation into innovation. Mark suggests that the patent office should be abolished! Whooooah – what’s that? Remove the patent office, you say. Then how are we [...]
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Posted on 18 November 2011.
The internet is a magical place and it can really help you in your business productivity (and harm you as well of course) if you know your way around and how to use the tools around. It’s of vast importance to be focused and do what you do best and let other people help you [...]
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Posted on 28 October 2011.
Meet David Sanchez – a Madrid-born socially conscious entrepreneur with a passion for surfing. David lives in Bali, which has been his home for the past few years, but I happened to meet him several years before in Australia when we were studying at the same university – though he was studying communication and I [...]
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Posted on 23 October 2011.
Over the weekend I read a book called the Cold Hard Truth by Kevin O’leary. Kevin O’leary is a fascinating individual – hated by many, loved by few but disgustingly successful. I first got familiar with O’leary through the show Shark Tank. I found him repulsive and somewhat abusive. But through the series he started [...]
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Posted on 17 October 2011.
I’m going to start this article with a quote: “… a big part of the problem lies with the companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated approach to value creation that emerged over the past few decades. They continue to view value creation narrowly, optimizing short-term financial performance in a bubble while missing the [...]
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Posted on 13 October 2011.
One of the most important concepts in marketing that you really need to grasp in order to get maximum leverage from each customer is – Lifetime Value – it refers to how much revenue one customer will bring in over its lifetime. Fully grasping lifetime value can be the difference between having great success and [...]
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Posted on 09 October 2011.
Following the articles on The Big Four Future Investment Opportunities and A World Without Food I thought it would be worth exploring what is taking place right now in developing countries that is directly affecting local and global food supply. There is a provoking shift taking place on the world and food markets around the world. [...]
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Posted on 06 October 2011.
It would be redundant of me to try and add something to the discussion of Steve Jobs’ passing, his life and his extraordinary accomplishments. What he did with his life is not realistic, it’s not even remotely likely to happen. But it did happen and it happened because he refused to accept the status quo [...]
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Posted on 05 October 2011.
According to Mashable 43,869,800 people changed their Facebook status to single last year and these newly made relationship-explorers are in the need for some serious matchmaking. Alex Paninder and his co-founder Filip Syta have made it their mission to help Facebook’s singles to find the love of their life with the new startup company – [...]
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