Augmented reality sucks
Enough with the augmented reality thing! It’s cool but can we move to real life applications? I won’t be walking around holding up my iPhone at eye level just to get to a subway station. What if I’m riding a bike or driving a car? Useless! Voice-enabled direction by GPS seems more like a better [...]
Want to be successful? Build around the Bixi!
This is fairly obvious but when there’s a new product that’s quite popular, try to look at an existing (or similar) product in another country and duplicate the successful ideas. Here’s an example: Bixi. This is fairly new here in Montreal but "rent a bike" systems are not new. They exist in other cities around [...]
When does a “project” become a “startup”?
So you have this idea and you start working on it. It’s just a tool, something people use once in a while. You know, one of those “projects”.
Then it gets bigger and bigger. People like it. People really start using it.
We see this all the time. People’s projects become bigger things. But when do you [...]
Think Small – Or when small works fine for you
People in startups want to change the world. They usually like to help out and produce something new and innovative.
People often have this grandiose idea that startups will either make it big or crash. After all, we’re always bombarded by multi-millions acquisitions and big funding rounds. Google buys this, Microsoft buys that, Yahoo! too.
But wait, [...]