First Review posted a great article on best practices to design your mobile app. Strong focus on maximizing conversion and user experience. Key insights [...]
October 28, 2015
Great insights on mobile app design
Man in the Arena
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The [...]
August 22, 2015
Private equity firms looking for talent diversity
KKR launched a new program to enable parents to fly their nannies along with children on business trips. The goal is to attract diversity of talent as a [...]
August 18, 2015
Alphabet as model for multi-focus enterprises
The Information proposed the Alphabet as a model for CEOs to focus on philanthropy and other interests such as self-driving cars, robots, or space [...]
August 18, 2015
Twitter growing revenues on slow user growth
Twitter reported earnings yesterday and beat expectations on revenue growth of 61% year-over-year on 15% user growth in the same period. Jack [...]
July 29, 2015
On virtue
IF, Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men [...]
July 25, 2015
First Data files for IPO, again
First Data filed for IPO yesterday. Currently owned by KKR who invested additional $1.2b last year in the hopes FD would create additional value via [...]
July 21, 2015
The importance of logged-in users
In a recent article The Information argued that most of Yahoo users are not logged in and, therefore, it is hard to demonstrate value selling ads. By way [...]
July 20, 2015
On friendship
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
July 15, 2015
Pluto was always a planet to me
Hello #Pluto! We’re at closest approach. Congrats to all! Follow our story & view new images using #PlutoFlyby. pic.twitter.com/8JVlJrcUkY [...]
July 14, 2015
Amex launches Checkout including Stripe integration
American Express launched their new Checkout service today. They also included a full developer RESTful API and authentication via Oauth 2.0, not to [...]
July 14, 2015
Will Facebook concierge strengthen or dilute Messenger’s positioning?
The Information just reported Facebook currently testing a beta version of its new concierge service, internally known as “Moneypenny” (for [...]
July 14, 2015
Microsoft re-focusing phone strategy
FT reported Microsoft’s massive $7.6bn writedown from Nokia’s $7.9bn deal and cut 7,800 jobs, mostly from Nokia. There are lots of examples of [...]
July 9, 2015
Is the selloff in China cause to worry?
According to NYT probably not. Call it more of a re-balancing. Market went up 83% in the last year and fell 26% last month. Fair trade. The sharp rise of [...]
July 8, 2015
How Amazon achieved impressive robotic automation
MIT Technology Review wrote an interesting article on Amazon warehouse automation via robots. Here are some interesting benefits:
July 8, 2015