http://www.wadstrom.net Entrepreneurship in the Internet and Technology Era Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:23:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's summer and it's vacation times for me, mostly because my spouse has more of a normal job, where she needs to plan her vacation. But this year I have been working too much, and too hard and have really starting to loose a bit of the joy that my ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/08/05/post-vacation-resolution-my-new-new-years-resolution/ Yes, economy is in a down-turn. But yet some of the most exciting opportunities arise for internet related business'. I have been an Entrepreneur long enough to see recessions come and go, and I think we still have seen a small part of the impact that Internet brings, and that this ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/08/04/economy-down-turn/ A very common discussion among Entrepreneurs is the discussions about building platforms vs building applications. The general experience and rule communicated is that platforms are hard to build, and applications is a lot easier to succeed with. Platforms hold a very attractive position when you succeed, because you will be ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/07/16/platforms-vs-applications/ Most people have been hearing or saying things that past 10 years as the new economy, the internet economy. And after the .com bubble-burst, most people were saying; there was no new economy, there were no new rules. I think people were wrong, both times. There was a new dynamic in ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/07/06/internet-economy-in-interesting-times/ I presented my startup GlocalReach at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008 this Tuesday, great event, lot's of great companies there, and we were lucky enough to be selected by large number of companies submitted to present. Meet with Bill Reichert at Garage Ventures, Adeo Ressi creator of thefunded.com (which you need ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/06/12/what-makes-silicon-valley-vcs-different-they-are-riskmasters/ I see myself as rather computer savvy, and even though I don't particularly enjoy fixing, installing stuff on my computer, I always get the job done (perhaps asking Google a question or two), but even at that, it's easy to find lot's of useful software on the Internet, but what ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/05/14/finding-the-right-trustworthy-software/ Had a discussion with a friend some time ago about the definition of innovation, that we didn't quite agree on the semantics but kind of agreed on the principles. After giving it some thought, I realize I was not arguing for the definition of innovation, but rather how I see ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/05/11/the-process-of-innovation/ Been a bit slow with the posts, it's partly because I have been quite busy with my startups, traveling, and my MacBook Pro is being serviced by Apple (or their partners). Since this fall I have been a happy Apple user, and now it was time for a check-up, it have ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/04/28/apple-service-and-warranty/ This is something I have been working on for the past 3-4 years, and give more and more attention. I believe that it is impossible to manage a productive work week, by working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, due to a number of factors: I am not productive 8 ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/03/31/time-management-and-4-hr-work-week/ In my previous post I forgot to metion the one feature that I think that Apple really got right with the iPhone, and perhaps one of the most important (and neglected one): Data Synchronization It syncs everything onto my Laptop, and not only my Contacts and Calendar (that works well with my ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/03/23/the-iphone-experience-part-2/ Lot's of people have written about the iPhone experience and about touch, and gestures and the obvious UI paradigms that the iPhone brought (no matter if Apple did not invent it, they did bring it to market in a nicely designed package). After using an iPhone for a few days, quite ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/03/20/the-iphone-experience/ From my second day at Mash-up Camp 6 Yahoo FireEagle First session was from Yahoo's FireEagle, really interesting platform for Location Based data, a good API' to get LBS data for building services. It's most accurate for US, but works world-wide (invitation only at the moment). Serena Serena shows a cool viral marketing video, ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/03/18/mash-up-camp-6-day-2-mash-up-killed-the-integration-star/ First day of Mash-up Camp 6, Monday 17th of March 2008. Welcome speech David Berlind, Mashup Camp co-founder Raymond Yee, Author, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups Ribbit Charles Freedman from Ribbit shows an example of a iPhone Flash app using the Ribbit API's to manage voice calls. Ribbit has a Voice Mash-up platform that allow any ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/03/17/mash-up-camp-6-part-1/ I read about Richard Stallman's visit to Sweden and the Royal School of Technology (KTH) this week, and his general bashing of everything not GNU. I would not call Stallman a communist as some would, he want software to be free and open, and make it possible for individuals to contribute ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/03/08/open-source-licenses-there-is-no-one-size-fits-all/ This is old, and I read a lot about Android when launched but didn't see this video until now, an interesting presentation of some Android features: Kind of makes you think about the iPhone. An open sourced platform with a user interaction more like an iPhone than a Nokia or Sony-Ericsson ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/02/08/about-android-and-open-source-mobiles/ About another blog. Busy with all my startup projects at the moment (most notably GlocalReach), but just wanted to share this interesting blog post about Mark Zuckerberg (FaceBook Founder): http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/26/the-shy-mark-zuckerberg-founder-of-facebook/ http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/01/26/just-a-short-notice-on/ ... Or perhaps you get fans like this because of an excellent design strategy. (Read more on Gizmondo) Perhaps apple won't make this MacBook Touch type of slim notebook (I would agree with Gizmondo that a small/slim notebook more like the Lenovo Thinkpad X-series is more in line with what Apple would ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/01/09/with-fans-like-this-you-do-not-need-a-design-apartment/ The future is really hard to predict! But here's my list of things that I believe we will see during 2008: Semantic Web. But in general I think the next big thing on the Internet will be something that has been on the agenda for quite some time, and that is ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2008/01/01/2008-trends-ideas-and-my-goals/ End of year is closing in on us way too quickly! And I am starting to think about what next year will have in store, and what the past two years did bring. 2006 and 2007 has been two fairly good years in my Entrepreneurial life, not everything turned out ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2007/12/29/2007-looking-back/   Happy holidays, and best wishes for the new year! Nicolai Wadstrom It's that time again, and for me it's about reflection of the events of the past year, and looking into the next year.I think that we are indeed living in interesting times. In the nineties I used to think that, it was a ... http://www.wadstrom.net/2007/12/23/happy-holidays-and-best-wishes-in-the-new-year/