Not very long ago I was studying the possibilities of starting a T-shirt printing company:
As I recall, there were some suppliers of specialized hardware around, in price ranges of 2000-10000$, depending of the quantities and print quality(just google for t-shirt printer), the price of a simple t-shirt stays below 5$ while the price for a […]

This post was ment to be full of links to a couple of interesting posts that appeared lately on the blogosphere on naming a new-born startup. After a bit of thought I decided to extend it a bit with the following fragment:
Two years ago, while in an internship in an R&D+consulting IT firm in the […]

One of my old highschool-mates decided, a year after graduating from college and trying ordinary development jobs, to go ahead and try to make it on his own. His goal? To build the computer game that would make him rich.
I wish Catalin all the luck in the world. I want the best for him, and […]

Via Dave Winer I get to Fred Wilson’s favorite business model:
Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your […]

Some of the most unusual business ideas, proof that imagination, enthusiasm and hard work are most usually a recipe of success.
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Uncommon Business blog

Via TechCrunch I hear a pretty interesting news: Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches
Briefly, it’s an online storage web service , with a pretty accessible price($15 per month for 100 GB of storage - although you should add the cost of the bandwidth as well - 20$/month/100GB) for everybody to use. I guess it’s an […]

Although I’ve been living in Paris for the last 2 years and a half, I had no idea that there were so many interesting IT startups over here. I mean, I knew there is a lot of IT research over at INRIA, Telecom, and ENS, as well as at Francetelecom and Sony labs. Mostly AI, […]

Doc Searls has an interesting post about the Intention Economy as opposed to the Attention Economy we linked to earlier .
The Intention Economy is about markets, not marketing. You don’t need marketing to make Intention Markets.
As the impatient digerati  I am, I’m just skimming through his long text and think about : could it be […]

The hottest thing on the web of the moment, hotter even than Cebit. It’s the place to be if you want to be in touch with the future Web2.1 .
On the speakers list, too many to mention: David Hansson from 37signals(the guy who built Rails), Joel Spolsky, Kathy Sierra, Ray Ozzie, Linda Stone, and.. […]