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Recently I had a phone conversations with a small cap/startup investor here in Stockholm . Some topics were up for brief but one tapped into my head. A European IP telephony company looking for new partnerships and clients for Winmo,S60 Ip telephony and more service. Key is not to go head2head with skype and so on. A few ours later i was on fring, skype, with a entrepreneur in Stockholm that has some distribution for this type of concepts. Bang 5 minutes in we planned for a lunch all partly done on my mobile. Later just before the lunch I had the final details from the VC on homepage and strategic outlook on the ip telephony, also on fring. This feeling of efficient, cost effective real time management is in your pocket. Small organizations has an advantage an can start using realtime management now. For larger organizations it takes a change of mindset and processes. Risk are involved as well as major benefits benefits. Look for companies like Fring, Skype, Ryanair,Virgin, Avanza,f...
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On the radar; Big changes in how innovation is made

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Breaktrough Technologies Part 2-Micropayments.

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