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Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google
Can a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to match exactly what users say they want? These questions surfaced recently when Douglas Bowman, a top visual designer, left Google.
Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? – NYTimes.com
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Here Be Dragons To Invest Up To R50m – 2009-05-06
Mark Shuttleworth’s Cape Town venture capital company, Here Be Dragons (HBD), is looking to make at least one more investment of between R10m and R25m in local, early stage businesses this year.
The focus will be companies with innovative ideas with the potential to expand internationally.
Here Be Dragons To Invest Up To R50m – 2009-05-06
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Can These Startups Beat Paypal?
At a recent Cape IT Initiative (CITI) strategy meeting held at the Bandwidth Barn, we discussed the huge opportunities still available for developing innovative ICT solutions for especially mobile platforms, and how ICT can be utilised as an enabler across the various [economic] growth sectors in the Western Cape.
I came across this article in which Stacey Higginbotham looks at various possibilities for further development of online and especially mobile payment systems. I hope the article gets the creative [read innovative] juices flowing.
Stacey writes for GigaOM. The article also appeared on BusinessWeek.com
- Chris Vermeulen
Moving Money Online Stills Needs Work
Credit cards and PayPal notwithstanding, there is still room for new approaches to Web payments, particularly in the mobile realm
Despite the acceptance of credit cards and services like PayPal, the issue of getting money from one person to another online still offers opportunities for innovation. Venture firms are continuing to fund startups that hope to offer better ways to pay online, while the growth of Software as a Service in the enterprise has led to a need for new tools in corporate billing management. Further out, buying items over a mobile phone presents a multibillion-dollar opportunity — if someone can make it easy.
Read the full article at: http://gigaom.com/2008/09/26/moving-money-online-still-needs-work/
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