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Here comes a snippet from a interesting discussion on Techcrunch revolving around the rumoured acquisition of Yelp by Google. Someone highlighted that Google has tried to enter many different markets trough organic and unorganic growth and that they failed several times.

• Craigslist: Google’s Answer – Base. Result: Fail.
• Wikipedia: Google’s Answer – Knol. Result: Fail.
• YouTube: Google’s Answer – Google Video. Result: Fail.
• Twitter: Google’s Answer – Jaiku acquisition. Result: Fail.
• Exchange: Google’s Answer – Wave. Result: Fail.
• Y! Answers: Google’s Answer – Answers. Result: Fail.
• Live Messenger: Google’s Answer – GTalk. Result: Fail.
• WolframAlpha: Google’s Answer – Squared. Result: Fail.

Ok. Google failed big times with several products. But! They have tried it, they have gained a lot of experience and insights. And if only one out of ten products launches proves to be succesful, they can easily recoup their investments.

Btw. Latest news is that Yelp walks away from Google deal.

A (funny) suggestion for Telco Carriers to get their fair share from economic stimulus packages.
Carriers should argue: “We are system relevant! Imagine what would happen if we stop operation”

Welcome to the stone age if Tier1 carriers, incumbents or seacable operators would switch of their networks!

Remember the Network outage (to be presice, the HLR outage) of T-Mobile this year! This problem made it into the prime time news in Germany. This was just one MNO going down for several hours.

Now i understand why they called him “Tiger” Woods 😉

Die 10 Erfolgsgeheimnisse von McKinsey zu finden hier

Aus der Liste stechen für mich zwei Punkte besonders hervor:

• Permanente Revolution
  Durch permanente interne Revolution und Bewegung entsteht Innovation.
• Ein Projekt, ein Team, tausend Ideen
  Erfolg kann heute nur noch durch Teamarbeit erreicht werden.

Je strategischer ein Projekt von der inhaltlichen Ausrichtung ist, desto wichtiger ist die Arbeit im Team!

The early bird catches the worm