I have been wanting to write about this for sometime now and I read the article earlier this summer in June, in the Financial Times Weekend that the Parisian pool “where the bikini was unveiled – and tarzan was a lifeguard” has been relaunched as a luxury hotel.
What have Tarzan, Bikini and Life of Pi got in common? Read More »
Over the past few years I have had the need to try many new services and equally we have been trying to find the best model for selling and promoting our own SaaS. One thing that I have found in many of the freemium models is the lack of free services or the short trial
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I have just come across an article in LinkedIn titled ” Business After Windows: Why the Microsoft Desktop OS Model is Irretrievably Cracked by SaaS and What the Future Holds” . The article reminded me of an article I had written sometime back in 1995 or 1996, on what the next OS should look like. I have
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There was much talk and hype about Facebook’s valuation and equally the downfall of the share prices after its IPO. Personally, I thought it was over valued at US$100bn, but that’s a very personal opinion and not based on any facts, but the fact remains that all of this is on the long term expectation
How can Facebook make money? 3 key features that might have been ignored. Read More »
Last week I had a meeting with Marius and Paul of Viajeuro.com a Canadian Startup Company that has decided to launch its products initially in Spain the Spanish market. Spain continues to provide a great market opportunity for foreign IT companies and investors. When we started in 2008 the idea of entrepreneurship and startups was
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Over the past year we have seen a growing number of feral (wild) cats in our urbanization. To begin with, it was only one and a few neighbours fed it. Soon it was pregnant and had three kittens, and now this year the kittens have had kittens. All of a sudden we are dealing with
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A couple of months ago, I wrote in one of my blogs a fairly detailed article about why the Spanish economy is failing and several suggestions as to how it can be improved. While the Spanish government is trying to push entrepreneurs and self employment it is failing to pave the way for them. Most
The way forward for the Spanish economy Read More »
Dear All, You will have noticed that in the past couple of months we have made a fair few upgrades to our website. As we have not had the chance to let you know about each update at each stage, here is a quick summary. 1. User Management ________________________________________ You will have already noticed some
OCM updates and new modules. Read More »
There is much talk about how the Spanish economy is failing, that there is not enough jobs and how in order to resolve the issue, Hacienda increases tax rates (like the Spanish restaurants increase prices when there is less visitors in order to compensate for the lower income), the Social Security system creates incentives for
My version of why the Spanish economy is failing Read More »
The Financial Times, 15 May has a report on software piracy, estimating that software piracy last year reached a record high of $63.4bn. The report and research by Business Software Alliance, estimates that 57% of world’s computer users admitted getting / downloading illegal software and that this figure was
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