Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Not So Excited About the Apple iPhone - A Critical Mass of Idiots

Apart from the "oh-so" design, what is so special about this phone? They were waiting for a perfect rollout of their iTunes store with music videos and songs so that it becomes a compelling proposition for Apple to sell a device which could play their wares on their hardware. It is a win-win situation for the telecom companies and Apple.

I'm not too confident this is the right thing at the right time - will one billion cellphones change? Not overnight.

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Entrepreneurship as a Competitive Advantage

Immigrants are behind 25% of the startups created in the USA between 1995 and 2005. The existence of so many start ups in America is no accident, and immigrants do not simply go to America and create enterprise. Rather, many go to America because they can create enterprise.

Good article.

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Friday, January 05, 2007

Some Fine Books