The TechCrunch conference recently took place and its worthwhile event that I try to follow every year. It seems the big trend to emerge this year is around sites that provide consumer ratings and services. In essence, these sites are looking to merge phone book style listings with greater utility.
To that end, start-up Redbeacon.com took the top [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 18th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
Tagged with: consumer, entrepreneurship, innovation, internet, local, online, Redbeacon.com, San Fransisco, search, service, tech crunch, Technology
For all the talk about our diminishing attention spans, the reality is that attention isn’t so much going anywhere, as it going everywhere and there’s only so much to go around. We may be spending more time online than ever before, but now we’re tweeting, watching videos on YouTube and searching for the answers to [...]
No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]
Some interesting insights coming from Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch today, discussing what he refers to as “The Revenue Dilemma” for internet start-ups like Twitter, that innovate and suddenly dominate an emerging market. Though we often joke about wildly popular companies that lack any means of generating cash flow, the paradox that these businesses often [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 9th, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
Tagged with: Business, free, innovation, insights, internet, markets, monetize, networks, revenue model, revenue streams, service, start-up, sustainability, Twitter
Wired has an extremely insightful article on an emerging trend that they refer to as the “Good Enough Revolution” or “MP3 Effect,” a shift in consumer thinking that favors ease of use, continuous availability and low price over different manifestations of quality.
Within the marketplace, this paradigm has been extremely successful at reaching the widest possible [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 2nd, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Tagged with: consumer, effective, Good Enough Revolution, insights, markets, MP3 effect, Pareto Principle, product, quality, service, success, Technology, thought, trends
Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well.
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.