What I learned this week: Yahoo’s failed leader, characteristics of great teams
It’s Friday and time for summing up the lessons learned this week: Yahoo’s (newish) CEO Carol Bartz clearly failed as a leader this week when it became public that she apparently sold Yahoo stock cashing in close to $2 million. 2 days later she declared that the sale was purely for tax reasons and that […]
What I learned this week: Facebook apps, testing resources, carpe diem
Friday is a good day to reflect and I usually try to come up with the 3 lessons that I learned in the past week – so going forward I will share these on the blog here. So here is what I learned last week: The value of Facebook applications: the sale of iLike to […]
Why I am excited about the online apparel and fashion vertical
On the day that Boo.com died in March 2001, not only did the Internet bubble burst but selling fashion and apparel over the Internet seemed dead for forever. So it is exciting to see that fashion and apparel is now one of the most exciting e-commerce categories where tons of innovation is happening. Think the […]
Launching Social Crowd Ventures and its first application Justbought.it
A few weeks ago I published my thoughts about application studios on this blog and today I am happy to announce the launch of new app studio, Vancouver-based Social Crowd Ventures. Social Crowd Ventures is a joint project between W Media and Adarsh Pallian, the very talented developer behind chart.ly and Tweetizen, and plans to […]
Thoughts on the “studio-ization” of the application business
2 years after its launch the Facebook platform can almost be considered mature and the new belle in application town is Twitter (with apparently already over 11K applications). Due to the very low barriers to entry both platforms have become very crowded in a short period of time so it is time to ask the […]