Published 27. August 2010 at 4:00 pm - No Comments
Is it easy to copy an Internet business? Can the “original” leverage copycats? Can investors and entrepreneurs have aligned interests?
The general consensus on those questions is often: copy is easy and has no merit; the original has little recourse; investors are aligned with entrepreneurs...
Published 17. August 2010 at 9:07 pm - No Comments
Chances are that you are a busy person, who wishes to have a happy family life and a successful career or business. Achieving those goals is and will be increasingly tied to our ability to generate attraction online. The problem is: nobody really teaches you how to do what is becoming an essential survival...
Published 8. July 2010 at 3:43 pm - One Comment
I wrote those lines on the plane back from Singapore, which concluded a 10-days long study trip to Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul and Singapore with a group of web entrepreneurs and investors called the “Geeks on a Plane” (a name inspired by the famous crowdsourced movie “Snakes on a Plane”)....
Published 10. May 2010 at 6:18 pm - No Comments
(This column was written for the magazine “China Electronics Business” – Part 1 is here)
Apple’s iPhone case
Though a famous Western example, it is by no means the most recent, though it might become the most successful, until Google’s Android market possibly overtakes them. Apple’s...
Published 6. May 2010 at 3:51 pm - No Comments
(This column was written for the magazine “China Electronics Business”)
Years ago, while working at a large telecommunication operator, I was invited to a large yearly event for the company’s decision makers and attended a session on “ecosystems”. An expert was explaining how industry...
Published 25. April 2010 at 2:56 pm - No Comments
This column was written for the magazine “China Electronics Business” and inspired this month’s talk at eComm.
This year seems to be the coming of age of three different technologies: augmented reality, stereoscopic & browser-based 3D and location-based services. Hollywood and...
Published 21. April 2010 at 2:31 pm - 2 Comments
Yesterday we joined the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, where some 700 participants were joining an all-stars line-up of speakers, mostly from the social gaming and payment sectors.
The panel I moderated was focused on internationalization, with an emphasis on Asia, including how Asian...
Published 20. April 2010 at 12:49 pm - No Comments
eComm is a pretty unusual conference in the world of telecom as it puts on stage people with ideas and innovations rather than big corporate sponsors. In terms of production and content curation, it is a sort of “TED for Telecom”.
I was invited last year for the first time and did the closing...
Published 17. April 2010 at 2:04 am - No Comments
For our francophone readers, we got interviewed by the French Chamber of Commerce & Industry in China for their monthly magazine “Connexions“.
The interview covers innovation models and the “Digital Silk Road” – how the West is importing ideas from Asia in the digital...
Published 15. April 2010 at 1:02 am - No Comments
“A handful of Asian brands – and the great ideas they represent – have become fixtures in living rooms, kitchens and garages around the world. But why have so few big names from the East made it in the West?”
The global research network ESOMAR (“The world organisation for...
Is it easy to copy an Internet business? Can the “original” leverage copycats? Can investors and entrepreneurs have aligned interests?
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