Online communities have for quite some time been on everyone´s lips. Second Life and it´s creator Linden Labs have shown that a virtual economy can generate cash. Another one that recently reached a major milestone is Habbo Hotel. as they moved beyond 100 million avatars created, it does represent a solid business case.
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Archive for June, 2008
100 Million avatars!
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Market research, tagged Age of conan, avatars, boic, funcom, Gerbsman Partners, Habbo hotel, iphone, mashable, mmorpg, online community, stardoll, world of warcraft on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
17 Mistakes Start-ups Make
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Harvard Business School, Hasbro Inc, John Osher, Procter & Gamble, Robert Tillman on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Osher has developed hundreds of consumer products, including an electric toothbrush that became America’s best-selling toothbrush in just 15 months. He also started several successful companies, including Cap Toys. He built sales to $125 million per year and then sold the company to Hasbro Inc. in 1997. But his most lasting contribution to the [...]
Nokia buy Symbian
Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Market research, tagged Android, boic, Gerbsman Partners, google, mobile 2.0, new mobile technology, Nokia, Symbian, symbian foundation on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nokia said today that it will buy up the part of Symbian it doesn’t already own and create the Symbian Foundation, which will unite all of its flavors into a single, common software platform that will go open source in two years. The move is a clear response to the realities of today’s mobile market [...]
Inherently Risky Business
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, tagged asset-backet securities, Board Of Intellectual Capital, credit crisis, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, global economic downturn, Oblong dice, Robert Tillman, Wall street journal on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As the first anniversary of the credit crisis approaches, it’s clear that a major part of the problem was a spectacular failure of information, with complex asset-backed securities turning out to be far riskier than anyone thought. But as sophisticated as we consider ourselves, this is just a contemporary example of what might be called [...]
Federal Reserve and ECB are in no mood to save us from the consequences of our debt
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fetch your tin helmets once again. The European Central Bank is opting for a monetary purge. So too is the US Federal Reserve, now ruled from Dallas.
Über-hawks and Cromwellians have gained the upper hand at the great fortress banks. Whether or not they admit it, both are embarked on policies that must lead to retrenchment [...]
