PressReader – The More You Read The More You Think

PressReader – The More You Read The More You Think

Newspapers are not going to be printed anymore, and there is an app that is thinking about it. It's PressReader, a killer newspaper app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and ...

UPs, An Interesting Sweet

UPs, An Interesting Sweet

UPs SolidEnergy is our innovative new caffeine energy sweet which we launched in Manchester, January 2013. Kaffeination consists of four founders, three of whom studied together in ...

The Five Star Movement And Its Political Revolution Driven By The Internet

The Five Star Movement And Its Political Revolution Driven By The Internet

The internet has never been connected before as much as in this decade. Tons of Entrepreneurs are using it, trying to build the next big thing, dozens of investors are using it to ...

The Best Is Yet To Come – Tech 2013

The Best Is Yet To Come – Tech 2013

We are approaching a new year, the 2013. At the end of each year, we usually make predictions about the next year and focus on what it could be next on the market or on the interne ...

Microsoft Has Lost Momentum

Microsoft Has Lost Momentum

In some circumstances in order to define a company dead, you don't need to look at its Market Capitalization or at its revenues, you just need to see who is driving that company. S ...

Hire People Who Believe In What You Believe

Hire People Who Believe In What You Believe

--- Firstly Published Here. Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs. It is so easy to use that word without really focusing on what it really means. An Entrepreneur is someone ...

Spotify Changed The Way I Didn’t Listen To Music

Spotify Changed The Way I Didn’t Listen To Music

I have lived in Italy for a long time, 19 years. I think it was one of the best time I have ever spent until now, but unfortunately due to several reasons I had to move to Manchest ...

Foursquare, A Feature Or A Product?

In the last couple months there haven't been much talk about Foursquare and what it is doing in New York. On the other hand, those few rumors we heard were about how badly Foursquare is doing. Although Foursquare has been able to be a real company and to deliver a great "product" to its costumers, the company has not been able to distribute a mass consumption product. From what we are seeing, Foursquare is ...

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$AAPL And The iPhone 5

On the 12th of September, Tim Cook will hold a press conference and he will finally show to the world, one of the most expected mobile phones of the last twenty years, the iPhone 5. It is going to be a big day for Apple, the most valued company in the public market. What we wonder is if the release of this new iPhone will push $AAPL shares to $700 or they will fall down, killing all the market expectations. ...

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Airtime, Three Months Later

Airtime, the long awaited startup led by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, is three months old. Three months are nothing for a startup and they probably don't mean anything in terms of statistics, usage and interactions. However, after three months we have new data thanks to App Data. Before the launch we believed they could be the next big thing, or maybe the next big project. For the first time ever, Airtime ...

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Happy Birthday Google: Changing The Way We Use The Internet For 14 Years

Today, the 4th of September we celebrated the 14th anniversary of Google, the small, tiny little project that Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed over three years at Stanford university. After a first investment of 100,000$ the two postgraduate students were able to build up one of the most amazing and the fastest search engine of that time. In fact in that period, Google wasn't the only startup that was t ...

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Review: “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries

After reviewing Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson, we decided to follow our entrepreneurial journey with "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries. I have personally read this book, so I want to take this review from a personal point of view. Before starting to tell what you are going to find in it, I want to say that my expectations were higher than what I read. Eric Ries has a long experience with internet sta ...

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Tawkon, a startup for humankind

Most of us have always feared to use their mobile phones too often. Although we are in 2012, we still don't know if there are effects behind an exstensive use of our mobile phone. When we keep these devices near our ears, we don't even think about it. However as many doctors suggest it is always better to keep the device at a distance of at least 1.5 cm off your head, to keep your body safe. Dozens of docum ...

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