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Entries from April 2009

Get the ideas out there

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

I got inspired and started brainstorming after reading a recent post by CEO of the venture firm Cue Ball, Anthony Tjan. He published an interesting post reflecting over some of the greatest entrepreneurs in our history. Watching known names as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Harry Potter ‘mom’ J.K. Rowling made me think about how […]

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Tags: Business · Strategy

Don’t try to stop what can’t be stopped

April 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Ever since the Internet became popular people have used this incredible tool to develop new and creative solutions to make our life easier. At the same time the ‘web’ is so large that it’s impossible to control the content and that gave birth to a lot of different services all created as a product of […]

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Tags: Business · Economy · Management · Strategy

Is Skype over and out?

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Some years ago auction giant Ebay bought the internet telephone application Skype from the Danish/Swedish business partners Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström. The disclosed amount was in the billion dollars range and Ebay’s initial plan was to integrate the service into their auction platform to create a synergy effect between the services. With internet telephony, […]

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Tags: Business · Management