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Re: Do Us a Favor and Read About This Social Start-Up Called Favo.rs (Video)

amartin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:53:10 -0000

It looks like the same idea as The Whuffie Bank (http://www.thewhuffiebank.org)

Re: Software is the New Rock and Roll

amartin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:40:44 -0000

Sorry, Coldplay is "MSN Spaces" (or Hotmail with Profiles). They just don't get it.

Re: Software is the New Rock and Roll

amartin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:38:18 -0000

John Pelotas Collective is for real. They are just building buzz for their first concert.

Re: Software is the New Rock and Roll

amartin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:36:44 -0000

There are a LOT of similarities between music and tech start-ups.

Steve Jobs presenting the new Mac in 1984 was a rock n' roll moment (http://www.youtube.com/watc.... All his last keynotes are like rock concerts. He is the closest you can get to a rock star.

At the same time,there are a lot of similarities between the "Punk movements" of the 70's (guys in a garage that didn't know how to play music, learn 2 chords and start playing....and going against the virtuosos symphonic rock of that moment) with the internet start-up movement of the last couple of years (with some PHP scripting knowledge, cloud service and a couple of bucks you can go out an test your idea....breaking through the big-fat-corps).

PD: However, lately, I'm getting more inspired by "rock" bands than internet start-ups. Radiohead is a start-up. And I love that.

Re: La metáfora del Motor de Combustión: creación de empresas de base tecnológica

amartin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:20:10 -0000

Interesante la metáfora de la combustión como ejercicio!

Me cuesta identificarlo con el caso argentino, sobre si pensamos a la ciencia-academia-universidad como generadora de breakthroughs en herramientas del pensamiento. Todavía estamos en "Day 1" ahí, y es aun peor si pensamos en la relación que hay entre la "ciencia-academia" y las "empresas-mercado".

Dudo del aporte que pueda hacer (a mi pesar) la "academia-ciencia" nacional a una EBT.

Para la combustión inicial de las EBTs, me parece mas importante que las universidades puedan ser mas eficientes (medido en calidad/cantidad de egresados por $) formando gente en ciencias e ingeniería con curiosidad y capacidad de resolver problemas. Baby steps. :-)

Y que esto permita (eventualmente) que la chispa inicial no surja de un pequeño grupo de emprendedores iluminados (e inconscientes?) sino que sea algo (un poco) mas sistemático (o sistemico...).