Llaborative consumption and P2P finance. Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today. Brazen Life: Is Entrepreneurship Better With a Social Mission? So, you want to be an entrepreneur. Freemium app revenue growth leaves premium in the dust — Mobile Technology News. AppsBuilder Gets Refresh, Now Available in 7 Languages. DIY app creation platform AppsBuilder just released a new, global version of its site, the Italian company announced today.
While similar services have mushroomed over the last months, these new UX and UI could help it leapfrog its competitors. As part of its new version, the site is now available in five additional languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, complementing Italian and English. Operation Canadian style. Canada's lively co-operative sector, brought together at a conference held at the end of last month in Montreal, is coming to terms with both bad news and good.
The bad news is from Gerry Ritz, Canada's agriculture minister in the Conservative administration, who earlier this year summarily removed government funding for the country's Co-operative Development Initiative (CDI). This innovative scheme, operating since 2003, has been offering business advice for new and developing co-ops. Among much else, CDI helped to launch a renewable energy business in Toronto, a home care worker co-op in Nova Scotia, and a community-run forestry business in British Columbia. CDI even enabled the establishment of a co-operatively-owned railway line, enabling farmers in Alberta to purchase fifty miles of track to get their grain to market. Jack Hidary: The Revolution:Top Ten Disruptors of Education. New online learning models are bursting from startups and top universities, bridging the educational divide.
We are in the midst of a revolution that will bring high-quality education to hundreds of millions of people who have never had access to this level of learning before. These tools will reach those in developing cities and countries but also foment a revolution in the U.S. classroom as they change our perception of what learning can be. Here are the leading new platfoms disupting the education world: Hacking Health: Bottom-up Innovation for Healthcare. Introduction In many countries, healthcare services are not currently provided in a sustainable manner.
Healthcare systems and institutions are still largely based on providing acute and reactionary care; this approach is not well suited to the increasing burden of chronic disease in an aging population that requires more preventative and long-term care (World Health Organization, 2002). Thus far, the response to growing demand has been dramatic increases in health spending.
Over the past 50 years, health spending has outstripped overall growth in GDP for OECD countries (OECD, 2011). Invest In Startups. Codecademy Founder: Why Everyone Should Learn Programming. In August of 2010, I was one of the first employees at a small startup called GroupMe.
The story seems familiar—a duo of young entrepreneurs started the company and modeled it on a problem they had. They worked nights and weekends and hired a team to help make their vision a reality. One year later, the company sold to Skype for tens of millions of dollars. GroupMe is one of thousands of examples of businesses created in today’s information economy that use technology to solve a problem. As I grew up watching startups, I always remained transfixed by the notion that anyone—no matter how old or where they were from—could create something new and magical using the Internet and technology.
Government launches £82.5m startup loans scheme for young entrepreneurs. The much discussed startup business funding scheme for young people based on the student loan system will launch today.
To be officially unveiled by Lord Young, David Cameron's enterprise advisor, on Monday morning, the initiative is worth £82.5m and will begin with a pilot offering £10m worth of loans to 18-24 year olds in England. If, the government said, there is enough demand from young people and "capability within the support network" to support them, another £32.5m will be provided in 2013/14 and £40m in 2014/15. Individual funding of up to £2,500 will be available with loans having to be repaid over a maximum of five years. The interest rate on loans is RPI (Retail Price Index) plus 3%. Media & Entertainment Reimagined by Collaborative Innovation. Established firms in the media & entertainment space struggle to prosper in the Digital Age.
New business models, enlivened by technology, erode traditional sources of profit. What possibilities for reimagining the business exist? In this article, I suggest one avenue to pursue: the benefits that come from learning how to convene a community on the critical question by embracing the practice of collaborative innovation; then applying the practice to help people work to their potential. The Author Green Lights a Film and Follows a Tornado.
Ander Osterwalder’s Presentations on SlideShare. Business Incubator. Targeted Jobs Fund Projects.pdf (application/pdf Object) Criteria and related principles for Jobs Fund.pdf (application/pdf Object) ‘Google in Your Language’ – African language translation. The Open Source School Of Innovation. Set Up A Business With Zero Cost: Scred Introduces MiniCorps. Scred, a Finnish company building tools and services to help friends, groups and communities manage their money, has released a new version of their service.
Before Scred enabled me to track debts and share expenses in multiple currencies. I found the basic Scred service already useful in sharing expenses with my flat mates.