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A crash plan to boost our industry
Guillermo Dorronsoro wondered in one of his recent tweets “if Fagor has to change or has to change the world”. The question is inspiring and also tempting. But I will not even fall into trying to assess or give advice on the situation of Fagor. I don’t feel like it, but neither do I have…
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Sales are not a good metric for startups
Reading the blog of Eric Ries, one of the great gurus of the lean entrepreneurship methodology and author of the book “Lean Startup” commented in a post that sales are not a good metric for startups. In other words, it is a mistake to evaluate the potential and level of development of a startup based…
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BYOD: an opportunity for startups?
Both Divide as Good Technology are two startups that develop technology in the promising and necessary field of MDM (Mobile Device Management), a field that encompasses a series of technologies and solutions that seek to solve the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) crossroads. The tendency of workers to use their own devices is shaking medium-sized…
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The innovation dilemma
In a post previous, we saw that the sectoral structure of our productive fabric with a very important presence of sectors that are technologically mature and not very intensive in knowledge is one of the reasons that explains why Spanish companies innovate so little. However, the question is not whether they innovate a lot or…
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The speed of innovation in startups and their financing
The speed of innovation is one of the most critical variables in the success of technology startups. Technological startups are immersed in such a competitive market capture process that the slowdown in their innovation can mean a fatal future for the viability of the company. A technology-based startup cannot afford to build a market slowly…
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Very little business innovation
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Mobile ecosystems: the value is in the apps, but what about the money?
The rise of smartphones and tablets together with the entry of application markets have managed to popularize the use of applications among users and companies. Apple’s App Store claims to have exceeded 50,000 app downloads since its creation while Google Play, although slightly behind, follows closely. Both stores have over a million apps available. However,…
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The madness of undertaking in electronic commerce
Read this week Mauria Finley’s article in Pando Daily “is it crazy to start an e-commerce company in the age of Amazon?” about the madness, or not, of starting an e-commerce business today in a sector where there are very well positioned agents that are characterized by a fierce price war. The article reveals some…
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The sharing economy: Sharing is now business.
The instinct of Property is very strong in Western culture: we want to have our house, our car, our bicycle, our clothes, our tent… However, this instinct sometimes clashes with the need to manage our resources effectively. The Internet, which has changed the world so much in recent years, may also be changing our habits…
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Role of the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation
Mikel Navarro and Edurne Magro wonder in El País < a href="http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/09/08/paisvasco/1378661018_949610.html">why is the RVCTI needed and they advocate that Vocational Training Schools (EFP) and SEIC companies (Knowledge-Intensive Business Services) must form part of the Basque Network for Science, Technology and Innovation (RVCTI). First of all, I would like to congratulate the authors for analyzing…