Democracia financiera

La única incubadora que permite elegir quién será financiado  por Issie LAPOWSKY ¿Crees que eres más inteligente que un VC ? Village de Capital permite a los empresarios deciden quién se destinan los fondos. Es un plan tan loco, que sólo podría funcionar. Ross Baird tiene un problema con el status quo en el Silicon Valley. "Silicon Valley se supone que es tan innovador, pero la gente gastar un montón de aplicaciones de tiempo haciendo sólo para que no tengamos que llamar para hacer reservaciones para la cena ", dice. "Hace que la vida yuppies ' más conveniente, pero no es en realidad la solución de los problemas del mundo. " Es debido a este sector de la carne con la rutina que Baird lanzó Village capital. Es un nuevo tipo de incubadora...

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8 empresas tecnológicas que pueden cotizar en Bolsa en 2014

8 Tech Companies That May Go Public in 2014 This has been a busy year for IPOs. In total, 222 companies went public in the U.S. in 2013, raising nearly $55 billion, which represents the most IPO activity since 2000, according to data from Renaissance Capital. Twitter was perhaps the most hyped IPO of the year and one of the best performing to date. The social network raised $1.8 billion from its IPO in November and its stock has nearly tripled in less than two months. Other tech companies like Zulily, FireEye and Rocket Fuel are trading well above their IPO prices as well, though these were comparatively smaller IPOs. SEE ALSO: How Tech Companies Prepare for Life After the IPO While we may not see another tech company...

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Emprendedorismo tecnológico que supera la pobreza

Meet the entrepreneur who has lifted 15,000 young people over the poverty line In rural Northern Uganda, a group of workers assemble each day in a shipping container, which is equipped with solar panels on the roof and high-speed Internet access. These workers are trained by an U.S.-based nonprofit organization called Samasource to perform work for fast-growing tech companies like LinkedIn and Eventbrite. At Samasource’s helm is a 31-year-old San Franciscan: Leila Janah. Inspiration for the company struck when Janah was just a teenager and teaching English to high school students in Ghana. During this trip, she noticed that the country’s most talented and well-educated young people could not...

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La demanda de aplicaciones en Navidad puede caer estacionalmente

¿Por qué la Navidad es un momento doloroso para los desarrolladores de aplicaciones? Por Leo Mirani @ lmirani Juegos Aplicaciones móviles : de todos taza de té. Reuters / Bobby Yip Ese conmovedora/nauseabundo anuncio de Apple deja fuera un aspecto muy importante de lo que se ha convertido en una tradición navideña del siglo 21. El día de Navidad, cuando las personas abren sus regalos y encuentran brillante nuevos teléfonos inteligentes o computadoras de la tableta, lo primero que van a hacer es iniciar la descarga de aplicaciones. Primero vendrá el asiduos - Facebook, WhatsApp, Angry Birds- y luego irán a la caza de más, por lo general juegos. Más aplicaciones se descargarán mañana que en un solo día antes de éste. Esto es a la...

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Por qué fracasan las PyMEs

Seth Godin: Why Small Businesses Fail BY GEOFFREY JAMES The famous marketing expert explains how small businesses can hone their market efforts. Bestselling author Seth Godin A few months ago, I traded emails with best-selling author Seth Godin on the subject of marketing inside small businesses. The more I read over the interview, the more I realize that his advice is priceless. Here's the interview: What marketing mistake do most small businesses make?They believe in the mass market instead of obsessing about a micro market. They seek the mass market because it feels harder to fail--there's always one more stranger left to bother. It's the small, the weird, and the eager that will make or break you. What's the right...

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Lean Startup como una filosofía empresarial en boga

Beyond Lean Startups: Eric Ries’ movement heads to Fortune 500, government, and beyond Conrad Egusa is the co-founder of Espacio, the co-owner of Colombia Reports, and is currently a mentor at The Founder Institute. Lean Startup: the name itself evokes images of a computer science graduate working on the next big idea in a garage-office, boxes of Ramen noodles stacked to the ceiling. During the first years of its development, the Lean Startup phenomenon fed on this image. Eric Ries, who coined the term “Lean Startup” and is the author of the popular guidebook that codifies the methodology behind it, is in the position he is today because of the startup community quick to adopt a model privileging flexibility and...

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5 predicciones tecnológicas de IBM

IBM reveals its top five innovation predictions for the next five years IBM revealed its predictions for five big innovations that will change our lives within five years. IBM Bernie Meyerson, vice president of innovation at IBM. The IBM 5 in 5 is the eighth year in a row that IBM has made predictions about technology, and this year’s prognostications are sure to get people talking. We discussed them with Bernie Meyerson, vice president of innovation at IBM, and he told us that the goal of the predictions is to better marshal the company’s resources in order to make them come true. “We try to get a sense of where the world is going because that focuses where we put our efforts,” Meyerson said. “The harder part is nailing...

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Windows Phone cierra la brecha con Android

The Windows Phone may be quietly becoming a real competitor to AndroidBy Leo Mirani Something strange is happening in the world of smartphone sales. People are buying more and more Windows Phones. Having been written off as a delayed,failed bid by Microsoft to make its presence felt in mobile, with an app store that didn’t even offer Instagram (it does now), the phones made by Nokia, HTC and others with a version of the Windows operating system were hard to take seriously.That’s not what ordinary shoppers thought. Numbers out this morning from market research firm Kantar Worldpanel show that more people than ever before are buying the phone, and not just in its traditional stronghold of Latin America. For the three months from August to October,...

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La penetración móvil en África llega al 80%

African mobile penetration hits 80% (and is growing faster than anywhere else) John Koetsier We tend to have certain paradigms about the “developing world” and the “developing world,” including Africa. Including, of course, media-fed images of Africa as a place of almost irredeemable poverty, deprivation, and pain.Many of our paradigms are, of course, illusions. A new report on the African telecommunications market highlights that mobile penetration in Africa hit 80 percent in the first quarter of this year, and is still growing at 4.2 percent annually. That’s faster than anywhere else in the world, the report says, and the 54 countries of Africa are, after Asia, the world’s second-largest market.Which means that today, more...

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Por qué China ama a la Internet

Why China Loves the Internet by Misiek Piskorski The size of the Chinese Internet is staggering. There are almost 600 million Internet users in China now, more than in any country in the world — next highest is the U.S, with 254 million. That’s just 44% of the Chinese population compared to 81% in the U.S., so this gap will continue to grow. For example, if every province in China achieves a 50% penetration rate, 135 million new Internet users will come online. 78.5% of Chinese users access the web from their mobile devices (compared to 63% in the U.S.), and many of the most popular services, like WeChat, exist only as a mobile application. Chinese users are also more engaged than Americans...

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