We’ve talked to a number of investor these last months and I can classify their questions into three categories: Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) Revenues and Operations Revenues is a straightforward concept and reflects market potential, market share, and business-model. Operations can also mean business-model as that clearly affects your operations, it also concerns the team, [...]
Thinking a lot about blue and red oceans these days, which was a topic of a New Venture seminar last week (summary post about that coming up). Still not having completed Blue Ocean Strategy, the book (someone told me, reading the summary would suffice. See slides below), I’m still not entirely sure how to get [...]
The matter of Rhine Capitalism vs. Anglo Saxon Capitalism, referring to the battle between the capitalist system that has long reigned in the US vs. the more socialist system that came forth from European countries, is one that is on the table right now. The question is this: should we let the market be free, [...]
As I’m currently applying for jobs, I naturally often get asked what my dream job is. I hate that question, as there’s no simple answer. My dream “job” is to set up companies, which is really a great number of jobs. Following series of steps is the way I visualise this process, seen from a [...]
In chess, a gambetto – say it with an Italian accent, consists in sacrificing a piece at the beginning of a game to gain a competitive position on the exchequer – for example through the control of the center of the chessboard or one of the long diagonals. Getting back to business (we’ll get back [...]
Just come back from the third edition Win In China september session. It is entrepreneurship program financed by CCTV2 (channel 2 of China Central Television). The winner gains ten milion rmb (around 1 milion euros) to realize his project in China. All challengers have to speak chinese mandarin to present his idea and at least [...]
This another part in the saga of my thoughts on ‘Grinding it out‘, an account of Mcdonalds, written by Ray Kroc. I’m about 3/4 into the 210-page book. Let me start with a disclaimer: ‘Grinding it out’ is a book written to promote the McDonalds way and aimed at motivating existing staff and operators, as [...]
Dubai isn’t dumb when it comes to economic policy. Some economists there have noticed software giants (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, SAP, IBM, BEA, Yahoo!, etc.) acquired companies on a valuation related to the number of software developers such preys accounted. A few years ago, it was commonly agreed that a software giant would be willing [...]
I’m very glad to welcome Matthias Schwenk on Tech IT Easy. For the record, Matthias already is a prominent blogger in Germany. His personal blog (in German) appears #14 in the consulting section of the German business blogs ranking. Matthias, who I met through the blogosphere, defines himself as a Web 2.0 evangelist. His vision [...]
Tech IT Easy is dead, long live Tech IT Easy! Today is our Independence Day: this blog is now fully accessible through www.techiteasy.org. All existing jeremyfain.wordpress.com/something trackbacks are automatically redirected to www.techiteasy.org/something. Our search engine referencing might suffer for a couple weeks, but since I noticed we have quite a captive audience (people coming back [...]
You tell me! In a few days, we will celebrate the first anniversary of Tech IT Easy. Although the growth of Tech IT Easy has overall been pretty amazing (+25% / month on average), it’s been slowing down a bit in May and beginning of June. For next year (24th June 2007 –> 24th June [...]
Message from Jeremy: To all Tech IT Easy readers, who could obviously not necessarily remember the initial announcement, I have invited blogger Lucien to write about Web 2.0, China, and many other things that happen to interest him at the moment. Lucien, they’re all yours! I am among the minority who didn’t notice the recent [...]
5 reasons I like my iPod: It’s small and hence handy (real size here on the picture). Still, buttons are of reasonable size so that it’s not hard at all to switch track whilst running. The autonomy’s pretty excellent (about 12 hours listening to music). It’s water resistant (let’s put it that way). The clip [...]
My cellphone is down: I can hear perfectly people who talk to me, but they often (>50%) can’t, and as you can imagine, it can get pretty annoying… To make a long story short: I badly need your help. I am to make a significant purchase this very week. I’ve decided to make a big [...]
It’s not the ‘what’ or the ‘which’, it is the ‘how’. Desktop applications haven’t killed server applications: the former has taken the lead over the latter but server apps have in no way disappeared. Both technologies cooperate, collaborate & co-exist. The same will go for web applications: Software as a Service won’t kill desktop applications, [...]
