When living in cities like Paris, London or Madrid, one tends to forget the easiness and seamlessness of public transportation. You can get from A to B relatively quickly with multiple public options at your disposal. And even if one enjoys the quietness of a private ride and has the wallet to match, then taxisContinueContinue reading “Lets Car-Share”
Tag Archives: Start Ups
Hastings vs Tilson
Back and forth this past week between Netflix CEO Hastings and Kase Fund’s Tilson: Reed Hastings takes on Whitney Tilson My take: stay long.
Segmenting
With the announcement yesterday that Google was continuing its drive in the hardware with the release of the Google Home Mini, the home-tech sector is continuing its development with the three tech giants having a push at each other. As with the fight between the iPad and the Kindle back in 2010, this is setting upContinueContinue reading “Segmenting”
Balancing
Balancing work and home life is definitely a challenging aspect of everyone’s day. When to answer emails, when to take phone calls etc etc. Here at iCare Benefits, we have always tried to keep work life away from the our staff’s home. We have a rule where work emails, unless urgent and necessary, do notContinueContinue reading “Balancing”
Big Macs & iPhones
The Economist publishes every year a study called the Big Mac Index ‘as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries’. And with the upcoming arrival of the iPhoneContinueContinue reading “Big Macs & iPhones”
From Idea to Stock Market
I recently came across this good video on start-up fund-raising. It is most definitely worth a watch: From idea to the stock market
Let’s Play
Just click, and play: http://ncase.me/trust/
Netflix vs the World
In a recent article, HBR took a swipe at Netflix for pushing its own content too hard and not increasing the availability of movies by reducing the outside offering (see HBR on Netflix). But this feels like a calculated, strategic move by the streaming-service: create enough, high-quality content that users will want to use the platformContinueContinue reading “Netflix vs the World”
Do your thing Twitter
Twitter is obviously a great tool to mingle with new ideas and gather information on trends, patterns and social behaviour. And I have thus always been curious about how those interactions can spur creativeness and innovation. Here is an paper published in the MIT Management Review that describes two types of Twitter roles and howContinueContinue reading “Do your thing Twitter”
Tipping Point
As one of my favourite books, The Tipping Point continues to pop back into my work year after year. And it never gets old. The basic idea of the book is to describe and try to understand “That magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”ContinueContinue reading “Tipping Point”
Pablo F. Alonso Caprile 