Student Entrepreneurs: If Peter Thiel Calls — Hang Up. MIT researcher says he can predict Twitter trends — Data. The Twilight of the Elites - 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years. In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it's General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media — has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both.
Archives - Book: BRICs and Beyond. A collection of research papers on the BRICs phenomenon and its impact on the global economy The Goldman Sachs Global Economics Department has recently released BRICs and Beyond.
This book compiles our recent research on the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India and China—and the changing nature of the global economy. It is now six years since we coined the term ‘BRIC’ in our Global Economics Paper, ‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs’, published on November 30, 2001. Since then, these countries’ equity markets have seen a remarkable increase in their value: Brazil has risen by 369%, India by 499%, Russia by 630%, and China by 201%, using the A-share market, or by a stunning 817% based on the HSCEI. BRICs and Beyond Introduction [PDF, 106 KB] Section One: The BRICs Chapter 1: India's Rising Growth Potential [PDF, 459 KB] Chapter 2: Russia: A Smooth Political Transition [PDF, 419 KB] Chapter 3: Will China Grow Old Before Getting Rich?
BRICs and Beyond - full document [PDF, 4 MB] Business & Economics. Are Incubators Really Necessary for Startup Success? Twice a year, every tech website seems to devote lavish coverage to just what startups made it into Y Combinator’s latest class.
The dirty secret behind the incubator boom. “It’s people.
Soylent Green is made out of people. Business Incubation to Support Business Growth. So you have a great business idea.
Incubators matter: The average Y Combinator company is worth $45.2M. Does it matter whether your fledgling company spends a stint in an incubator?
Does it ever! Forbes‘ recent ranking of incubators around the country found that the average Y Combinator company is worth $45.2 million. Just try doing that on your own. That’s the average across 172 companies, mind you: The total value of all Y Combinator companies is $7.8 billion. “The data is of course skewed by certain large companies,” Forbes admits, among them Dropbox and Airbnb, although Mountain View, Calif.
Smartphone use in Rural India. Mobile and smartphone use in urban and rural India Jerry Watkins a *, Kathi R.
Kitner b. The Business Bridge Initiative. Food Distribution in Horn of Africa Goes High Tech. Cathy Herholdt, World Concern 206-546-7374 (office) 425-205-7412 (cell)cathyh@worldconcern.org October 2, 2012 (SEATTLE) – World Concern’s voucher system for distributing food in the Horn of Africa crisis is about to go high tech.
The Seattle-based humanitarian organization is piloting a new mobile app in the drought-stricken region, aiming to streamline the process of tracking food distributed to hungry families and payment to local merchants. The app was developed by Seattle start up ScanMyList, whose founder, Scott Dyer, developed a mobile application to help retail businesses track inventory. When Dyer saw one of World Concern’s vouchers, he realized the same system could help the humanitarian organization reach people during a disaster more efficiently and track aid more accurately. The system tracks beneficiaries and the food they receive via bar codes that are scanned into a mobile phone. Special Report - 20 Forecasts for 2010-2025.
The Single Most Critical Skill for the 21st Century 7 Ways to Spot Tomorrow’s Trends Today How to Succeed in an Age of Hyper-Change How Foresight Built a Fortune Forecast #1 : Electric cars powered by fuel cells earn extra cash for their owners — Your next car may help pay for itself by selling its excess electricity back to the power company.
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed electric cars using fuel cells that convert biogas or hydrogen into electricity. Then, while the car is parked, it generates extra electricity that you can sell to the power company for extra cash. Forecast #2 : Open-source robot blueprints cut the cost of robots by 90% — Robot development may soon dramatically accelerate thanks to new open-source hardware-sharing systems. Similar to open-source software for computers, this new robot-development platform allows participants to share their designs so that other developers can adapt or improve on them. Emerging Tech: 9 International Startup Hubs to Watch. Dublin, Ireland image credit: Luxe Travel Logitech, Rovio and Skype -- these three companies produce products as mainstream as keyboards, services as cutting edge as video chatting, and games as addictive as Angry Birds.
While each is different, they all began as startups outside the U.S. and experienced the kind of success that propelled their brands across borders worldwide. All over the globe, tech entrepreneurs are striving for similar results. The cycle from aggregation to disaggregation. But how does LinkedIn get unbundled? What's the mechanic? The dynamics of smartphones discussed above make it easier to unbundle Facebook.
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