¿Es California un mal lugar para hacer negocios (tecnológicos)?

The not so Golden State For all Silicon Valley’s vibrancy, California can be a lousy place to do business IN THE gold rush of the late 1840s, chancers dreaming of quick riches flocked to San Francisco. It is the same today, only this time they are armed with computer-science degrees rather than shovels and picks. It is boom time again in Silicon Valley. Startups are sprouting like mushrooms after rain. Investors are showering them with cash. Hoodie-clad geeks are quaffing champagne in trendy bars, as they celebrate their nascent firms’ multi-billion-dollar valuations. Meanwhile, Google and Apple continue their march towards world domination. Those observing from afar the valley’s burgeoning entrepreneurial scene could be forgiven for...

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Estonia, una nación tecnológicamente emprendedora

Lessons from the World's Most Tech-Savvy Government An Estonian shares his country's strategy for navigating the digital world. STEN TAMKIVI The Atlantic People wave Estonian national flags during a concert in Tallinn, in August 2011. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters) Lately, I have been getting a lot of questions about Healthcare.gov. People want to know why it cost between two and four times as much money to create a broken website than to build the original iPhone. It’s an excellent question. However, in my experience, understanding why a project went wrong tends to be far less valuable than understanding why a project went right. So, rather than explaining why paying anywhere between $300 million and $600 million to build...

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Nintendo entra al mercado smartphone

Si Nintendo hace juegos para móviles, ¿qué puede aprender de Sony y Microsoft? -"No es tan simple permitir que Mario pueda jugarse en un teléfono inteligente", dice el presidente Satoru Iwata. Entonces, ¿qué han hecho los rivales? ¿Cómo podría también traer Nintendo Mario y otros personajes populares a las tabletas y teléfonos inteligentes? Empiece por lo obvio : Nintendo ya hace que los juegos móviles. Nadie mantiene Sus 3DS atados a un televisor, después de ave, pero no tiene los juegos móviles para teléfonos inteligentes y tabletas. Ese cambio junio. La compañía ha noqueado Tradicionalmente vuelta preguntas acerca de tomar su establo de marcas de juego para los dispositivos de otros fabricantes, pero como Nintendo ha anunciado sus últimos...

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Carrera de armas en Internet

The first-ever botwall could change the economics of hacking forever By Tim Fernholz @timfernholz This machine kills hackers. Shape Security For companies with data to protect, their primary problem is how cheap hacking can be. While “hacking” encompasses a wide variety of activities, one company is specifically tackling the botnet problem: The ability to use a network of linked computers to overwhelm a website or break into user accounts. A denial of service attack is probably the most well known kind of attack using botnets. But for $200, you can put 10,000 computers around the world to work on whatever nefarious purpose you prefer. Shape Security is trying to put a stop to that with a new product, unveiled today, called Shape Shifter....

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20 meses es el tiempo de vida de las startups

Death and startups: Most startups croak 20 months after their last funding round Sam Howzit/Flickr Ricardo Bilton For most startups, death is not a question of if, but when. While that conclusion may seem obvious, the data to support it is pretty hard to come by. Which makes sense: After all, no one — not founders, not venture capital firms — is going to go out of their way to tell the world when they’ve failed. But they will trumpet their victories. It’s the survivorship bias in full effect. Still, research firm CBI Insights has managed to get some good data on startup death, which happens a lot more than all the funding news would lead you to believe. Here are some of the most interesting findings: Most...

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Silicon Valley está demasiado lejos de Europa

¿Por qué Silicon Valley no puede encontrar Europa? por Sten Tamkivi (@ seikatsu ) Nota del editor: Sten Tamkivi ha sido un empresario de software durante 16 años y pasó la última parte de su carrera como ejecutivo temprano a Skype en Tallin, Estonia. Sten es ahora un empresario residente en Andreessen Horowitz. Síguelo en su blog y en Twitter @ seikatsu. Ir a Europa en estos días -a Berlín, Londres, Helsinki- caer en en cualquiera de las confabulaciones regionales tecnología y usted verá rápidamente que la escena de inicio Europeo se encuentra en la vibrante forma más animada que nunca ha sido. El potencial está en todas partes, y la energía es innegable. Luego regrese En Estados Unidos, en mi caso a Palo Alto, y Europa no es sólo irrelevante...

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Conspiración de CVs falsos en India

India se enfrenta a una epidemia de CVs falsos de buscadores de trabajo desesperados Agence France Presse ABHAYA SRIVASTAVA, agencia France Press Un supervisor da instrucciones para enviar la última tanda de telegramas pendientes dentro de la sección de despacho de la Oficina Central de Telégrafos en Mumbai 16 de julio 2013. Los directivos de una empresa de TI en Nueva Delhi estaban desconcertados, ya que tamizan a través de un montón de CV - hasta 30 personas que buscan trabajo afirmaron haber trabajado para el mismo empleador. No dispuesto a correr ningún riesgo, los gerentes se acercaron a una empresa de detectives profesionales que se especializa en los antecedentes de selección dada por los posibles empleados. Lo que surgió de ellos...

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Silicon Valley, ayer y hoy

Silicon Valley Lost, And Found Kim-Mai Cuttler - TechCrunch Silicon Valley is a place that is just as much about people reinventing themselves as it is about people reinventing industries. As a new year turns, it’s time to go through that silly (but actually necessary) exercise of pausing to reflect. In a world of endless e-mail and distractions, it’s hard to remember where we came from, or where we are collectively going. For better and worse, Silicon Valley suffers from a perpetual loss of memory. I have three simple stories about reinvention, that hopefully present a historical arc of this place. They belong to my family. For three generations, we have come here — before the orchards were cut down for silicon chip factories, before...

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