¿Xiaomi vencerá a Apple?

Xiaomi has beat Apple in China, but can it win over the rest of the world?By Iris Mansou Quartz begins a series today profiling companies around the world experiencing explosive growth. Lei Jun walks on to the stage like a young Steve Jobs. It’s September in Beijing and the founder of one of China’s scrappiest smartphone brands, Xiaomi, is about to unveil its flagship Mi-3 phone. This model uses one of the fastest processors on the market, retails at just over $300 and already has legions of fans. On the surface, Xiaomi seems to have a lot in common with Apple. Phones are slickly designed, sell out within minutes and have a cult-like following. Lei even wears jeans.But Xiaomi’s strategy is actually the antithesis of Apple—partly the secret...

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Como puede un emprendimiento evaluar el tamaño de mercado

How can a startup company best evaluate market size and find the market data? Often times investors wants to know market and industry potential and stats of the startup product, how can startups best find and present these informatin? In this blog post, my aim is to solve two common problems for startups. 1.      What is your total market potential? 2.      How much of that market can/will you capture? Although it may be impossible to answer these questions accurately, you can use a data-driven, bottom up, and logical approach to help answer these questions in a way that will satisfy potential investors and bankers. Calculating Market Potential – Example I want to start by giving you...

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Grandes crecen más en Twitter

Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook (According To Optimal) By Anthony Ha - TechCrunch Here’s a fun comparison from Optimal, a social advertising and analytics startup: If you look at big brands on social networks, their following seems to be growing more quickly on Twitter than on Facebook. Optimal says it looked at the data from 4,330 brands, representing a total of 3.49 billion Facebook Likes and 595 million Twitter followers. Last week, those brands added 18.5 million new Likes and 4.5 million new followers — so on a percentage basis, their following grew 55 percent more quickly on Twitter than it did on Facebook. Now, you might quibble about whether pitting Facebook Likes against Twitter followers...

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