Forse non abbiamo ancora intravisto quali impatti avranno le nuove tecnologie, la pervasità del web sul mondo dell'insegnamento. Vediamo solo lontani bagliori in lontananza.
Questo video su alcune startup di cui sentiremo sicuramente parlare.
Io ne ho... viste cose che voi umani non potreste immaginarvi... Navi da combattimento in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di Orione... E ho visto i raggi B balenare nel buio vicino alle porte di Tannhäuser....
Groupon clone after Groupon clone, yawn… yet another social media dashboard, a cloud-based enterprise solution or, worse still, another photo sharing app;
...companies, shareholders and consumers are best served by product-driven executives. In his book, Lutz wisecracks his way through the 1960s design- and technology-led glory days at GM to the late-1970s takeover by gangs of M.B.A.s. Executives, once largely developed from engineering, began emerging from finance
The auto industry is actually a terrific proxy for a trend toward short-term, myopically balance-sheet-driven management that has infected American business.Ed ecco il passsaggio più interessante:
It's interesting to note that the one area of the U.S. economy that's adding jobs and increasing productivity and wealth is also the one that is the most relentlessly product- and consumer-focused: Silicon Valley. The company off Highway 101 that best illustrates this point is, of course, Apple. The only time Apple ever lost the plot was when it put the M.B.A.s in charge. As long as college dropout Steve Jobs is in the driver's seat, customers (and shareholders) are happy. The reason is clearly the one Lutz puts forward in his book: "Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys."
driven off the road by M.B.A.sDimenticavo: ho anch'io un MBA! :-)
What Apple does is use its cash hoard to pay for the construction cost (or a significant fraction of it) of the factory in exchange for exclusive rights to the output production of the factory for a set period of time (maybe 6 - 36 months), and then for a discounted rate afterwards.
un centro di ricerca multidisciplinare del Mit il cui compito ufficiale è quello di « investigare e anticipare i mutamenti indotti dalle tecnologie digitali nella vita delle persone, e le loro implicazioni su scala urbana»
They have what it takes for the booming fields of social media, mobile software and cloud computing...
"It's been extremely difficult to hire," said Adam Pisoni, co-founder and chief technical officer of Yammer, which is based in San Francisco. "You've got all these established companies hiring people, and then you've got all these startups. We're all hiring the same people. Exactly the same people."
Internet giants like Google (GOOG) are competing with startups for increasingly rare talent: senior software engineers, data analysts, Web designers and application developershttp://www.mercurynews.com/jobs/ci_18357227?source=email
...that the world is a very different place to the one in which the shares of such notorious firms as Pets.com and Boo.com boomed in the 1990s and then went spectacularly bust. For one thing, many more people are now plugged into the internet and the prospects for e-commerce are brighter than ever. For another, many internet start-ups this time round have impressive revenues and robust business models.http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/711
He did Pandora for one reason: love.
He loved the idea of building a music genome. Eventually the company figured out what the business model would be — and the team there will figure out profits as well. Most startups come from love, not a desire to make pots of money...
I often joke with my friends that startups are like climbing sheer rock without any support, always slipping a few feet, and then gaining an inch. It is that inch you climb that brings immense joy, even if it is short-lived. The rest is just fighting to stay alive, trying to get ahead and just getting it down.
Being a real entrepreneur is a long, lonely road as Tim’s journey tells us. Creating something that is lasting — something you love — takes time. Often a very long time! But in the end, the journey is worth it.
But for a full comeback, Europe will have to wait for an entrepreneurial culture like Silicon Valley’s.