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62) diaspora* and Kickstarter
危 wēi danger Four students at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences listened to a lecture on cloud computing and privacy and began to worry about relinquishing ownership of...
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69) Zynga – is its Facebook dependency good or bad?
危 wēi danger More and more often startups are built with a total dependency on a third party, for example on external platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps or iTunes. The allure of access...
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32) Kegg Farms
危 wēi danger Delhi-based chicken producer, Kegg Farms was founded by Vinod Kapur in 1967. Kapur had realised that the Indian poultry sector lagged behind western markets in its adoption of genetic...
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39) PSA Peugeot Citroën
危 wēi danger The auto industry has experienced the perfect storm over the last few years – rising fuel prices, increasing environmental awareness, drops in consumer spending and the emergence of...
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40) Philips
危 wēi danger Philips was founded in Holland in 1891 by Gerard Philips, a maternal cousin of Karl Marx. Over the following century Philips grew to be one of the largest electronic firms in the world,...
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46) Netflix (again!)
危 wēi danger As per my previous post on the subject Netflix has done an incredible job of disrupting the video rental incumbents, particularly Blockbuster. Part of its success was moving away from...
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47) Facebook
危 wēi danger Many technology startups, particularly social networks, are heavily dependent on network effects (the phenomenon whereby a service becomes more valuable as more people use it, thereby...
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50) McKinsey
危 wēi danger In its 2009 report, the UK CIPD’s Employment Survey claims that the average cost of filling a job vacancy is between £4333 and £7750. This is the average across all sectors and doesn’t...
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57) Google Image Labeler
危 wēi danger Google owes much of its success to its phenomenal search algorithm, invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. Broadly,...
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Why I think OpenIDEO is important
This is a break from my usual blog post format but today is a special day: we’re launching OpenIDEO – a platform designed to bring people together to solve problems for social good. Here’s a quick...
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