ten lies never to tell investors - a great article from Inc magazine which continues to reinforce why remaining market orientated is so important in all businesses, not just start ups!

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We have commented previously that the impact of technology and innovation often has unintended consequences. Often these consequences can result in entire paradigm shifts. Shifts that can disrupt and potentially wreck well etsablished exiting business models. Indeed histroy is littered with companies that simply “didn’t see it coming”.
The iphone is having such an impact. Not just in the consumer area, [...]

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Licensing deals can fail, not because of bad technology, but simply because the licensee is cutting costs!

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Bioshares, Australia’s premininet biotechnology analsyst newsletter recently asked Cogentum to comment on the recent fall from grace of a significant Australian listed biotech. You can find the introduction and a link to the article below

The news from Tyrian Diagnostics that it will close down most of its business and lay off all of its staff is another [...]

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“A Dutch research centre has developed a wireless monitor that allows your organs to send alerts to your mobile phone.”

Good lord. Somewhere a medical device company who is in the process or who have already raised a fortune to pay for their proprietary diagnostic technology and device, have just has conniptions!
The ehealth revolution is [...]

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Google has just bought Motorola mobility for $12.5billion. Which equates to one third of their cash reserves!
WOW!
So now Google makes hardware. Phones to be exact. Is the world getting a little weird or what?
Maybe they know something we don’t? Maybe they think they know something nobody else knows?
Maybe they think they know something, but actually [...]

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Why Mark Zuckerberg should sell Facebook now!

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We love Apps.
One of the core reasons, and there are many, is that Apps are in essence single function solutions. An App focuses only on doing one job, or group of related jobs. Importantly, it does so in the most economical and simplest fashion. As a result , no over engineering, no complexity, no huge [...]

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If you thought the ipad, iphone, ipod weren’t ubiquitous enough, get ready for icloud. This latest development from Apple, and let’s face it, it’s really just repackaging existing ideas into the Apple format (something we note, that Apple  excel  at!) will really change the world as we know it.
Now that’s a big claim i hear you say. But the long [...]

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I am not sure how aware you are of the increasing trend towards crowd sourced solutions. But if not, you probably should be.
The central tenet of the crowd sourced solution is that it provides you access to a wider range of solutions at a lower cost.
Crowd sourcing is an emerging model right across a range of areas. Initially, it [...]

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