Friday, October 17, 2008

Free educational institutions email, high interest bank account

Google and Microsoft marketing email hosting services to educational institutions at no cost
OCBC providing high interest account for newborns...


These companies are willing to forgo potential present revenue because they believe that by making the user familiar with their product while in academia they insure future revenue in perpetuity. This is a common practice for technology providers as evidenced by the "educational discounts" available for both computer software and hardware available in the campus store and elsewhere.

source: https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/SPPS/Overview

Monday, October 6, 2008

low yat plaza landmark mall sim lim tower and coming soon Mines Shopping Fair

What do all these four have in common?




They are being positioned as IT lifestyle malls
Some succeeded, some failed miserably

They have one thing in common though, their locations
For more information, please use any online maps and you shall find out their whereabout

Sunday, September 7, 2008

The Only Question That Count for VC

taking cue from The Only Three Questions That Count by Ken Fisher, the most important question to ask before a VC decides whether to invest  a company is : How do you monetize it? (kudos to the one who mentioned it to me =) )

biz ideas 1

selling boomerang @ east/west coast park