May 2009
11 posts
Some interesting numbers on work-life balance
The average middle-class family will spend $184,000 to raise a baby from birth to age 17.
Sixty percent of American parents feel considerable conflict between work and family, according to a survey by the Work and Family Institute.
The number of vacation days that go unused by American workers each year is 574 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: oprah.com
“To say this was a radical notion at first was an understatement. I lost several...”
– SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at Work « Steve Blank
“+ Fifteen Years Online: Overall Internet Use in the United States — The...”
– Internet Usage (U.S.) Statistics From the 2009 Digital Future Report
“This creates the scale to make mobile advertising attractive.” He said the...”
– Yahoo says mobile search service reaches 600 million | Technology | Internet | Reuters
“the halal food market has exploded in the past decade and is now worth an...”
– Halal: Buying Muslim - TIME
“Nearly 70% of small businesses don’t have Web sites, says an annual survey...”
– Why Small Businesses Are Slow to Adopt the Web
“ore than one of every five American homes (20.2%) had only wireless telephones...”
– Another Dying Industry - Land Telephone Lines.
“‘You know, I do know how to prepare for old age’ he said. ‘Never have a job,...”
– http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html
“Of the 215,000 video channels on Kyte, nearly all are created by consumers, but...”
– Less than 1% accounts ofr 90%
World's Most Reputable Companies: The Rankings -... →
April 2009
16 posts
“YouTube, which reportedly loses $470 million a year, has to make money somehow,...”
– YouTube takes on Hulu - THE WEEK
“only 12 out of the 116 startups (approximately 10 percent) launched after...”
– Analysis: How Far Do Projects Launched At Startup Weekends Travel? (Not Very Far)
“If you could have one thing from the likes of Anil Kumble or Sachin Tendulkar,...”
– Haribhajan Singh on Cricinfo
“A middle-aged British woman and two Chinese companions on Saturday set off on an...”
– Trio depart Beijing on epic horse ride to London
“We have trials that go on for decades,” Mehta says, noting that 65% of the...”
– Mumbai Attacks Trial Offers Rare Glimpse into Indian Courts - TIME
“Almost half of French people believe it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs...”
– Almost half of French approve of locking up bosses - Yahoo! India News
“In Microsoft’s latest biannual report on the state of computer security,...”
– Spam level *declines*… to 97 percent of all email : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech
“Over the past 6 years, blog search engine Technorati has indexed 133 million...”
– Blogging Stat from Harvard Business review
“Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline sharply in March (-663,000), and...”
– March Employment Report
“More than 20% of the 292 of the self-made American billionaires on the most...”
– http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106866/Billionaire-Clusters
“Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S....”
– Study: Half of New Americans Hispanic - TIME
“Preliminary figures released by the government Monday show that 37,313 people...”
– Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels
“With a total of $45 billion, India was the top recipient of remittances in 2008....”
– India tops remittances in 2008, fall predicted in 2009: WB - Business News - News - MSN India - News
“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”
– Obama Asks Security Council to Punish N. Korea - NYTimes.com
“Basketball’s Halftime Advantage
Not surprisingly, the basketball team...”
– When Losing Leads to Winning
“just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the...”
– 9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas
March 2009
25 posts
“A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the...”
– Marcel Telles, Chairman and CEO of Brahma
“Successful new businesses typically revise their business models four times or...”
– Reinventing Your Business Model - HBR.org
“Between 1976 and 1992, disk-drive performance improved at a stunning rate: the...”
– Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave - HBR.org
Free World Cities Database. →
Some interesting immigrant market segment numbers
Each year, 85,000 H-1B visas are granted for foreigners with advanced skills and education, and last year, 163,000 petitions were filed in the first five days after applications were accepted.
In 2006, foreign nationals residing in the U.S. were listed as inventors on 25.6% of the patent applications filed in the U.S., up from 7.6% in 1998. A Council of Graduate Schools survey found that...
Interesting Market Segment that is ignored
Over the next 10 years, the Older Americans segment (50+) is projected to grow 23%. By 2020, this market segment should be nearing 119 million people and represent 35% of the total population, as provided by the US Census.
78% of 50-54 year olds are online
45% of 70-75 year olds are online
67% of 70-somethings use a cell phone on a weekly basis
Older Americans are 27% more likely to visit...
No one still knows how to monetize social media
A study by Forrester Research found that while half of marketers said they would boost budgets, social media spend remains very small in proportion to other media — 75% of respondents who knew their budgets said they were planning to spend $100,000 or less over the next 12 months.
Mobile Video Viewing Grows 9% In Q4 2008 | Nielsen... →
Mobile Video Viewing Grows 9% In Q4 2008
“Any idea what the ratio is between the Googles and Facebooks and other startups?...”
– Steve Blank
“How many think it’s over 50 % of startups fail because their...”
– Steve Blank
27 Things To Do Before a Conference |... →
45 percent of world's wealth destroyed: Blackstone... →
45 percent of world’s wealth destroyed: Blackstone CEO
1 in 50 U.S. Kids Are Homeless →
“the average cost of a wireless call is, in reality, a shocking $3.02 per minute.”
– How much are you paying for cell service? Would you believe $3 a minute?
One Janitorial Job in Ohio, 700 Applications -... →
One Janitorial Job in Ohio, 700 Applications
“A raise is only a raise for thirty days; after that, it’s just your salary.”
– We don’t pay you to work here - Venture Hacks
Building the Next Generation Company: Innovation,... →
“If you can’t trust someone 100% don’t bring them on to your team. If...”
– Frank Addante’s FounderBlog: Building and Developing an A++ Team
One of less thought of product features
Every internet based product should have the following feature: find the top 5 features that are most heavily used and provide keyboard short-cuts for it.
“The bottom line is that there is some 80% of the population that lives on $2 a...”
– India Sets April Election, Struggling with Economy, Security - WSJ.com