YiGG user @kartmann uses YiGG to create a User Generated Diploma Thesis. He asks the community to vote on six different proposals or to suggest another one. Cool.
In Economic Downturn: Look forward
There’s a lot of gloomsaying these days — not only in the banking scene or at Wall Street. The internet, web 2.0 and all new start-up business model seem — again — to be on a knife-edge. VCs are mulling over high evaluations — start-ups are being told (again) to become more humble. Since it’s always easy to join the club of doomsayers at the right time the ‘Look-Forward-post’ of Fred Wilson
January 27, 2008
YiGG with new Eventblogging feature
Today we launched our new Eventblogging feature. We invite Bloggers to blog live from fascinating events. All blog posts will be aggregated in a special group Eventblogging and will be featured on YiGG homepage.
Joi Ito’s Digital Garage invests in Twitter
Twitter goes Japan. That is the message of today’s announcement of Joi Ito and his Digital Garage VC. Joi invests an undisclosed sum in Twitter to help the microblogging platform to grow in Japan. That should be a perfect match. Congrats Joi, Evan and Biz!
User Generated History
Today in a German weekly: The author scoffs at Web 2.0, Internet start-ups in general and these User Generated History sites like miomi, memoloop, xakasha or einestages in particular. In Germany internet entrepreneur bashing is en vogue at most times. Media fancies itself as the wise council having it all known long before. But — think a moment: User Generated History is it. It really makes me cry not having launched one
January 15, 2008
Media Business Models on the Web
Chris Anderson started a list of Business Models on the Web and Fred Wilson added his thoughts what Dave McClure also did. So far there are 28 different models: — CPM ads (“cost per thousand views”; banner ads online and regular ads in print, TV and radio) — CPC ads (“cost per click”; think Google ads) — CPT ads (“cost per transaction”; you pay only if the customer brought to you from
January 14, 2008
Italian-style Starbucks
One very offline business idea came into my mind: You all know Starbucks. Starbucks entered a overcrowded market (you got your coffee nearly everywhere) with a commodity product (coffee). The result: they are extremely successful and are running 13.000+ stores worldwide. In Europe, especially in Germany, Italian food is ubiquitous — here in Munich we have hundreds of little pizza restaurants and Italian coffee bars. I think it’s time for an Italian-style Starbucks: restaurants-cum-takeaways
January 7, 2008