The curios case of tech’s business model pendulum
- January 17, 2017
- Joe
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In the beginning In the 70s Bill Gates and Paul Allen were programmers. Different from a formal employment, both of them only made software to whoever needed. As such, they needed compensation -at least- to make a living. However, there was one problem, up until that time, a programmer worked for a company which made…
Monterrey Tech
- November 15, 2016
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Monterrey Tech (Tecnológico de Monterrey) is one of the world’s most prestigious universities. As part of our recent trip to Mexico, we engaged with them on how we can mutually collaborate. The result of this collaborations is, Tec Monterrey will be supplying us with the points of interest so they can be put into Terra…
Native or Hybrid mobile app?
- September 13, 2016
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Mobile In the mobile world, programming for an smartphone is divided in native or non-native (i.e. hybrid). But … what is it? Each OS manufacturer (i.e. Google’s Android & Apple’s iOS) develops their platform to be programmed in a certain way with a certain language using a defined set of instructions, known as APIs (application…
To ease Uber entry, make it electric only
- May 10, 2016
- Joe
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Many of us have seen or witness the worldwide battle between Uber and taxi drivers. Long history short, taxi drivers are defending their livelihood, while Uber represents the new way of working. The thing is, taxi services around the world are regulated by cities. So, in order to operate a taxi, the owner of it…
Succesful crowdfunding!
- May 11, 2015
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A few weeks ago we started our small but focused crowdfunding campaign. It has successfully finished with a pleasant 110% of the objective amount collected. We would like to thank all of the people who believed in us, we really appreciated! The funds will be used to promote Terra Icons adoption, using several methods like…
Testing the waters of crowdfunding
- April 6, 2015
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We’ve always been curios about the whole crowdfunding phenomenon. We’ve thought of some ideas to launch, but nothing concrete, until now. We stumble upon this new fellow start-up called Launchleader. We thought it was cool, so we created our respective, concrete and straightforward crowdfunding campaign. Nothing fancy, just the basics. So, please visit the project’s…
Why Google+ hasn’t taken off?
- July 4, 2014
- Joe
- knowledge
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As you may know, Google+ has not been the success most people expected. For sure, we don’t know what Google was expecting out of it, given their philosophy. However we know that the company has made a considerable effort trying to put it on front of our faces each time we use one of Google…
15 movies an entrepreneur should watch
- April 28, 2014
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On this blog we write about stuff, any stuff that we see fit. On this opportunity I’ll share some movies which I think a worth seeing from an entrepreneurial point of view. Some of them are true stories, some are fictional, some are funny. In any case, each movie might offer a lesson on: trying…