Will iPhone trigger a next revolution as iTunes and iPod did to the digital music world?
Will iPhone be the killer device of the 21st century that enables the next wave of ultimate and ubiquitous personal mobility at large? Browsing the web, listening music while navigating your way around the world, taking snapshots, and calling your friends, truly at any time and anywhere in an utmost consumer friendly integrated device?
Watch the iPod promotion video at this page. A more comprehensive analyses is published by The Economist.
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We’re now at the busy crossroads where globalisation meets Web 2.0.
This presents both a challenge to the old ways of doing business and an opportunity to gain tremendous leverage via the right goods and services.
To thrive in this era, companies will have to figure out how to engage young people from all over the world when they conceive of products and services. Businesses need their help in turning concepts into finished products and, especially, in marketing them.
Another angle: Companies can follow the trail of blogs and social networking sites to find and recruit young employees all over the world. (Source: BusinessWeek cover story “Children of the web”)
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I am not trying to make a political statement here, or whatsoever with the teaser and image headlining this blog entry. I just wanted to have a catchy and provocative picture accompanying the headline.
The private equity industry is growing at a stunning pace for several consecutive years in a row now, transforming the structure and balance of power in global business. Mark O’Hare, managing director of Private Equity Intelligence - a research group based in London - compiled a ranking of the fifteen largest private equity firms, based upon assets under management. Find here the ranking published by BusinessWeek.
In a previous post I wrote about the real soul of private equity firms. What is their real core business nowadays? With respect to the fact that, PE firms are broadening their service offerings to other areas of “high class” finance.
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Here some additional musing on my previous entry (The new radar screen of VCs) which elaborates on today’s hotness of Europe’s economy!
Amongst others, owing to increasingly favourable macroeconomic conditions and the rise of Web 2.0 enabled initiatives; youngsters are flocking throughout Europe to start their first entrepreneurial advances.
Those youngsters have one thing in common, they all posses the passion and drive to utilise upon undiscovered consumer needs and enable uncontested market space. A narrow selection of twenty-five young entrepreneurs active in Europe can be found here.
BTW. Also checkout the special reports published by The Economist on European Business (February 2007) and The European Union (March 2007).
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What’s currently on the radar screen of Venture Capitalists (VCs)? In short, finally, they are starting to look beyond China and India respectively: Central and Eastern Europe.
At the very moment, first, there is Central and Eastern Europe. At least $500 million is sitting in fund targeting the Central and Eastern European region and much more is foreseen. This growth is enabled by a few success stories such as Skype and Last.fm, and in turn, this has triggered a new wave of fresh and new European entrepreneurial spirit. Furthermore, the accession of ten new European Union members from Central and Easter European countries has spurred investments across the region. The previous locked up energetic talent in this region has now gained equal access - as their Western European counterparts - to European capital markets and legislative protection.
In addition, as BusinessWeek pointed out earlier VCs are even having their eyesight beyond the traditional BRIC and Next Eleven (N-11) countries for example out of all places, Colombia, Latin-America. A multitude of young, bright and entrepreneurial minded people is ready to take the country up on the economic ladder. BusinessWeek typified Colombia as an extreme emerging market. It take guts and political sensitivity to start investing there but it can reap endless possibilities.
Here you can find a list of the top 500 European hot growth companies. Another listing can be found here. The latest and greatest news on European Private Equity & venture capital can be found here.
Some more great webpages to keep you updated on any activity at the European VC front can be found here. European Venture Capital & Private Equity Journal; FT European Venture Capital Report; Venture Capital in Europe (Book); and Profitability of venture capital investment in Europe and the US (Research Paper).
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Are you eager to learn a new language from a native speaker but don’t want to pay for it? The new wave of so called web 2.0 technologies can provide you this opportunity by giving you access to numerous native speakers. With only a broadband connection, podcast, and Skype.
For example, the company Praxis offers free Chinese lessons delivered straight to your computer every day. The latest dialogue is delivered as a podcast on your iPod along with the Chinese characters of that day. To move even beyond this, your Skype phone is ringing and someone at the other side of the line says Ni hao to begin the lesson.
Another musing on technology: last week Google and Salesforces (delivers software through a browser) announced a partnership to bundle their powers and blend their software products. Salesforces is one of the leading companies in offering software as a service, one of the most promising technology concepts for the future. Software as a service envisions the ultimate form of delivering on demand services in order to gain business agility.
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Hiya! Haven’t update my blog for the last two weeks! No worries I am still alive! Kinda busy at the moment with writing my Master thesis as part of finalising my studies!
For the time being you should checkout the French music band “Phoenix” if you haven’t heard about it yet! I have discovered this band via Last.fm which was bought by CBS last week, for the fair sum of $280 mln! In my humble opinion I truly love last.fm its a fantastic way to discover new music! I’ve always find it hard to discover good new music, last.fm makes everything so much easier! yah!
This weekend I will be partying in Barcelona! Stay tuned….
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