Entrepreneurs in the world’s 2 most populous nations, China and India, has through modern times been somewhat asleep. But now, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna in a new book, both societies “have woken up,” and the results could reshape business, politics, and society worldwide.
“In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Startup Resource on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Redefining Professionalism for Software Engineers
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Technology on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Professionalism in the Software Industry (circa 1985)
As the packaged software industry reached its middle age around 1985, it was difficult for an individual programmer to have an impact. Software had to be marketed via traditional media, burned onto a physical medium, put into a fancy package, and shipped to a retailer. Consequently, 50 or [...]
Future of Online Video: Video Conversations Among a Community
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Hi-Tech Startup's, Startup Resource, Technology on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London.
But that’s exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger, well-connected entrepreneur and Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur.
He believes that the future of online video is not YouTube or even live video, he thinks [...]
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google
Posted in 1, Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Technology on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the last 2.5 years, Google has conducted the largest corporate experiment with prediction markets we are aware of. Here, we illustrate how markets can be used to study how an organization processes information. We document a number of biases in Google’s markets, most notably an optimistic bias.
Newly hired employees are on the optimistic side [...]
The coming 2008 dot-com crash
Posted in Advertising, Entrepreneurship, Startup Resource, VC on January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Article Author: Greg Linden founder of Findory
We will see a dot-com crash in 2008. It will be more prolonged and deeper than the crash of 2000 .The crash will be driven by a recession and prolonged slow growth in the US. Global investment capital will flee to quality, ending the speculative dumping of cash [...]
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