Impresionante mercado de smartphones en China

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La geografía de los startups exitosos

La correlación entre donde surgen las emprendimientos y como de bien les va Silicon Valley es el lugar para estar Por Dan Moren - Popular Science Hay un montón de factores a considerar al fundar su emprendimiento- pero que no puedan quedar considera mucho es la ubicación. De acuerdo con un reciente informe de investigación publicado en Science, ciertos lugares tienden a tener una mayor representación de empresas exitosas. El candidato a Ph.D. del MIT Jorge Guzmán y profesor del MIT de Scott Stern, han analizado la tasa de éxito de las emprendimiento en varias ciudades de California. Por supuesto, el "éxito" es difícil de medir, pero en este caso, Guzmán y Stern empresas que, dentro de los seis años de su fundación, ya sea...

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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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Como el emprendedorismo digital puede ayudar al Mundo

Cómo los emprendimientos digitales desarrollarán al Mundo Por Michael Chui y James Manyika Los empresarios locales están impulsando el crecimiento de Internet en los mercados emergentes, y eso es una buena cosa. Así es como los políticos y los operadores de telecomunicaciones pueden ayudar. Esta columna es parte de una serie en curso, publicado originalmente por McKinsey & Company, acerca de cómo los empresarios están haciendo un impacto en la sociedad en todo el mundo. En las economías avanzadas, los esfuerzos de los empresarios innovadores han impulsado el crecimiento impresionante en el uso de Internet y el impacto en los últimos 20 años. Emprendimiento de Internet en los mercados emergentes ha recibido mucha menos atención, pero...

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Evidencia de que el sector tecnológico esta inmerso en una burbuja masiva

Here's The Evidence That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble JIM EDWARDS -  Business Insider The stock market is at an all-time high. Tech startups with no revenue have billion-dollar valuations. And engineers are demanding Tesla sports cars just to show up at work. Here's the evidence that we're in a new tech bubble, heading for a crash, just like the dot com bust of 1999. Interest rates are effectively at 0%. Fred / Think Progress Before we get into specific evidence that the tech sector is inflated, it's worth restating the macro-economic context: Interest rates are basically at zero and have been for some time. When borrowers are paying close to zero interest on loans, that makes money cheap to get. This...

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Club Unicornio: Emprendimientos de mil millones de dólares

Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups TechCrunch ADVERTISEMENT Editor’s note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software. Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 and was also founding CEO of digital media company RMG Networks, backed by KPCB. Follow her on Twitter @aileenlee.  Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Why do investors seem to care about “billion dollar exits”? Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies....

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