Silicon Valley's relationship with time is perhaps what separates it most from the rest of the world, from what I've seen so far in these trips. The entire system in California is based, for solid economic reasons, on the speed of conception,...
Read more
Winch 5
Latest posts
Outcubator
Mumbai-based entrepreneurs Mahesh Murthy and Vishal Gunda know each other but don't work together. Both are, like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, successful college dropouts, and both now work with startups. To do this, each created what Murthy calls an...
Read moreInnovation according to Tony Surtees, CEO of Hyperlocalist
Tony Surtees (@hyperlocalist) is the CEO of Hyperlocalist. I met him Australia, where I asked him his definition of innovation. http://vimeo.com/40224374...
Read moreInnovation in India's cafés
Starbucks has competition. Café Coffee Day, an Indian chain with 1,300 locations, is on its heels. The coffee is different, but just as good. Its advantage will come from the way it uses tech, which is a bit ironic when you recall that the American...
Read moreInstagram seen from across the globe
The billion dollars that Facebook paid for Instagram – much of it in stock options – seems like a lot of money to buy a company that isn't even profitable. But one of the reasons for the acquisition of the smartphone photo-sharing app is...
Read moreIndia's complex market: a medical example
Docsuggest, launched in January 2010 in Hyderabad (central India) is a startup similar to dozens of others I've met. Not novel enough to justify a tour of the world, except when you look at the advanced metrics. We are in India.The idea is simple:...
Read moreAustralia, outsourcing leader?
With their country's small population and geographic isolation, Australians are fans of crowdsourcing, which lets them work with millions worldwide. "We're the world leaders. It's our future," says Ross Dawson, co-author, with Steve Bynghall, of...
Read moreWokbolic antennas and extralegal strategy
Onno Purbo (@onnowpurbo) reuses radio frequencies and other wavelengths to help give the poorest and most poorly served access to the Internet. His favorite method – not really a secret, since it's open source – is a wifi antenna made from a wok,...
Read moreInnovation according to Silvio Meira, Recife
Silvio Meira (@srlm) is the chief scientist at the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems. I met him in Brazil, where he gave me his definition of innovation....
Read moreArgentina takes on the U.S. and U.K.
The markets are in the north, the talent in the south, and the technology is everywhere. This is the formula that Globant, an Argentinian enterprise-software company, built its strategy on. And it works. Created in 2002 with $5,000 (3,800 Euros), it...
Read more
