I had the privilege to listen to Charles Li, CEO of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) at a recent conference in Singapore. He shared his views about China’s economic growth over the...
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The Scale Up Report is out. It has been a privilege to work with Sherry Coutu as a member of the Scale Up Report Steering Committee. The launch of the report earlier on this week has been...
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What are the characteristics of these companies fast replacing traditional businesses? As you know we like platform businesses, and proposed a generic definition in a previous post. Out...
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Since we declared our love to platform businesses in a previous post it is only fair for us to try to provide a definition of what we mean by platforms before explaining in more detail why...
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Platforms are the dirty little secret of many hyper growth businesses Platform businesses, such as eBay, Google and Facebook have been booming over the past few years. More recently...
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Seedrs (www.seedrs.com) is an online platform for discovering and investing in great startups. Its equity “crowd funding” business allows investors across Europe to invest (from £10!)...
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Marketer’s wildest dreams are in sight but are companies ready? The concept of “big-data” is on everybody’s lips these days. As every self-respecting new buzzword,...
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We’re looking forward to working with a great platform business, Stootie, France’s response to TaskRabbit. Stootie (www.stootie.com) is a platform enabling people to buy and sell...
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Laure Claire joins Launchworks & Co from eBay where she was in charge of marketing and proposition development for sellers in Europe. Laure said "After twenty years working for...
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Since the departure of the "traitorous eight" from Fairchild in 1957, which led to the creation of Intel and AMD and countless other companies in the area, the Silicon Valley has always...
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