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Interesting talks on Social Business at Imperial College Business School next Monday! (6pm LTUG)
How to create a profitable business with a social impact at its core?
Panel includes:
- Rajeeb Day : Founder of Enternships (connects people across industries) , “World’s youngest Global Leader 2012”
- Robyn Scott MD of OneLeap (connects students with ambitious startups), Co-Founder of Mothers for All, Botswana’s only national non-profit
- Jude Ower : Founder of Playmob (connects games experts to potential partners), Judge for the BAFTA games awards, a member of UKIE and the IGDA
register here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LT5B9MG
#Imperial College London
Check out our review on the Kusama exhibition at the Tate. What did you guys think?
http://www.what-mag.co.uk/when/explore/what-views-kusama-at-the-tate-modern
Photo credit: Yayoi Kusama Photo credit: Lucy Dawkins/Tate Photography
#Kusama #tate modern #london
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight.
A Londoner reviews his town.
"(Source: The New York Times, via okbesko)
#london
The rationale for the deal makes sense. As for the price? You can debate all you want about the price, considering that Instagram was still pre-revenue and had about a dozen employees. Whatever price it went for at this stage, it was going to be controversial. And Instagram was going to be worth whatever Mark Zuckerberg felt like paying for it. That is the definition of “worth” — it’s whatever the market will bear.
#h.bloom #hbloom #subsription business model
What was your business modell again? - How do you generate revenue? - How do you sustain a competetive advantage? - What about copyrights? - Is there an IP Strategy for that? How do you generate reach?
Pinterest und Clones haben es nicht leicht, was vermutlich auch am unzulänglichen Geschäftsmodell liegt. Der deutsche Clone Pinspire steht wohl einigen Medien zufolge schon vor der Schließung - die Acquisition seitens des Originals eher unwarscheinlich.
Doch mir geht es darum, welche möglichkeiten Pinterest bietet. Die oben erwähnten Fragen, die jeder Investor gestellt hätte sind nicht einfach zu beantworten. Aber vielleicht muss man sie auch noch nicht beantworten.
Fest steht, dass durch (Rich)-Content eine Menge Keywords auf den Userpinnwänden generiert werden. Dadurch ergibt sich ja schon einmal potential für Affiliates. Doch dazu braucht es erst einmal Reichweite - die ist teuer. (Vor allem mit fehlendem Revenuestream)
Ein Pinterest Fenster für Keyword Relevante Werbung zu benutzen hört sich attraktiv an. Ob dies für Pinspire noch eine Option ist bleibt abzuwarten. Wo RocketInternet doch ohnehin auf Sales-Driven Clones fokusiert ist, bleibt abzuwarten was in der Social StartUp Szene noch zu holen ist.
For my English speaking readers:
Feel free to comment: Pinterest - Is there a monetization backdoor?
Cheers
P.S: I also have a bunch of possibilities at hand which I will reveal next week.
#Is there a monetization backdoor? #pinspire #pinterest clone #pinterst #pinterest business model
Too much for one boat race.
1. A swimmer crossing the river forces a rerow.
2. Hanno Wienhausen’s (Oxford University) blade breaks.
3. Oxford bow Dr Alexander Woods collapses.
#oxford vs cambridge #the boat race
Apparently IBM is setting its sights on a few Israeli companies its interested in acquiring.
Now this is a strange story - not because of its unlikelihood - but rather because of the size and caliber of companies on the list - including Nice, Check Point, Amdocs, and some others.
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#m&A ibm #ibm
Germany’s Samwer brothers, known for cloning American companies’ business models and launching copycat versions abroad, have some bold new source material: Amazon.com (AMZN), the world’s biggest online retailer.
The recently launched rip-off site, Lazada.com, replicates Amazon’s orange, blue, and white layout and even mimics the little orange smiley-esque arc in Amazon’s logo (though the arc has been replaced by a tiny shopping cart silhouette on some of Lazada’s international sites).
Left, Amazon’s site; right, Lazada’s (Click to enlarge)
According to TechBerlin, the German blog that broke the news, Lazada is headquartered in Singapore and geared towards Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan—countries in which Amazon hasn’t yet locked down the market. TechBerlin’s sources say the Amazon clone is headed by ex-McKinsey man Maximilian Bittner. E-mail attempts to confirm this information with the Samwers, at 10 p.m. German time, have not been answered.
The Samwer trio—Marc, Oliver and Alexander—have already cloned the likes of eBay (EBAY), Zappos, Pinterest, Fab, Airbnb, and Groupon (GRPN), and made more than $1 billion in the process. Most of their targets were smaller, U.S.-focused startups with limited resources at the time the Samwers discovered them. Amazon is a global company with an $88 billion market capitalization and plenty of lawyers around the world. The Seattle-based company did not respond to a request for comment.
The brothers’ formula has worked in the past, thanks to Rocket Internet, their well-funded clone factory, which has offices in at least 20 countries to facilitate speedy and aggressive international rollouts. In 2010, for example, Rocket enabled the brothers to replicate Groupon in 14 countries in just five months. “It was a marathon of short sprints—it was like we had a United Nations of Entrepreneurs in a race car,” Oliver Samwer said of Rocket’s Groupon clone rollout. “I never even counted the number of employees we had.”
In February, Oliver Samwer told Bloomberg Businessweek that he doesn’t see anything wrong with launching pixel-by-pixel copies. “There’s a certain humbleness,” he explained. “First you need to learn from people who are more experienced. … From there, you can start innovating yourself.”
Apple to announce plans for $100b cash balance tomorrow
Dividend? Acquisitions? We’ll know in a few hours
