There are plenty of write-ups on how to assess the viability of your business idea but here is my fairly simple take on it. Can you write a simple vision statement for your idea in the following format: “Our vision is to be the most useful X for individuals/companies who Y”, where X is your product/service category and [...]

It is no secret that Facebook needs to find a way to monetise and that Yahoo needs to close the gap on Google. My proposal for a Yahoo and Facebook partnership that might address both problems is as follows: Yahoo to provide an in-Facebook web search facility with an agreed ad-revenue split between the two. [...]

Every now and then I come across something that makes me think nothing is impossible in life. Below are five of such things that I have come across lately: 3-D printers that ‘print’ (more like create) real life objects and the fact that they will soon be cheap enough to have in our homes. Business [...]

I find it an increasingly worrying trend to find more and more startups openly admitting that they don’t know how they will make money yet but expect to figure it out later. Perhaps even more worrying is that these startups are getting funded. Notable examples recently include: Geni – as admitted by CEO David Sacks on the GigaOM Show. Clipmarks (which [...]