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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…
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Public-private commitment and smart specialization
In the previous post I talked about the < em>need to focus more on our scientific, technological and sectoral betsas a way for an intelligent specialization policy (here). Some readers have suggested to me that it is as important or more important than the need to focus is to discuss how this can be done,…
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The importance of mobile traffic: Baidu buys 91 Wireless for $1.9 billion
Last week Baidu, China’s largest search portal, bought app store 91 Wireless for $1.9 billion from NetDragon WebSoft. The app store reported having had more than 10 billion downloaded apps that it distributes through various tools such as 91 assistant, 91 Launcher and others. If Baidu and Google are the gateways to the Web, what…
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Smart specialization. We have to spin finer
The great “words” that come to us from Europe run the risk of becoming trivialized and becoming what I call “speech fillers” to look good. The “intelligent specialization” The fashionable recommendation of the European Commission’s regional innovation and competitiveness policies follows this path. Nobody understands it well, everyone interprets it as it suits them and…
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Snapchat: we like graphic and ephemeral communication
An extraordinarily high assessment of a company that only a few months ago had only four workers, Snapchat, the app that allows you to send instant and “self-destructing” graphic messages, that is, they are erased with the time. One of those success stories of young programmers that is rarely seen outside of Silicon Valley: just…