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Who Will Be The First "Fair Trade" Tech Company? It's The New "Green"...

Who Will Be The First "Fair Trade" Tech Company? It's The New "Green"...

There's a tremendous opportunity waiting to be grabbed. There's a Wikipedia page waiting to be written.

"The first Fair Trade tech company was …"

I'm certain that the Fair Trade concept will be applied to electronics, and it's just a matter of when that will happen. I'm convinced it will happen not because it's a good idea but that it's a potentially profitable idea.

Let me explain my thinking. Our digital gadgets and gizmos are becoming very cheap, almost disposable – yet the working conditions for millions of workers in the global electronics industries are deplorable. Even though they often work in bunny suits, in super clean, well lighted work places, those jobs are highly stressful and often unhealthy.

Lets not forgot that those bright, sanitized work places, those clean work clothes, and filtered air conditioning, is not for the workers, it's to protect the electronics from the humans. The wages are poor and the work is grueling.

Fair Trade electronics could help tens of millions of people around the world without making much difference to our wallets. We could easily alleviate a lot of suffering without much suffering on our part, we could afford to pay a bit extra.

Noble goals are important but what will drive the growth of Fair Trade electronics is that it will be an excellent way to make money. It's a great way for companies to differentiate themselves in the market place.

Consider this: All technology products trend towards becoming commoditized – that's just how things work. How do companies fight commoditization? It's done through differentiation.

- Companies such as Apple do it through design. Take a commodity product, say an MP3 music player, and apply a great design. Design drives sales and it is a high profit value add.

- A lot of computer companies these days proclaim how green they are, how eco aware they are, and how their products use less energy, carbon, etc. "Green" drives sales and it's a high profit value-add.

- Fair Trade electronics is another way companies will be able to differentiate themselves from competitors. Fair Trade will drive sales and it is a high profit value add.

Yes, companies will be able to make money out of Fair Trade electronics and make a difference in the world– it's one of the wonders of capitalism.

Fair Trade applied to the electronics industry will also be incredibly transformative because the supply chains are huge.

Think of a laptop and how many companies were involved in the sourcing of the components of a hard drive, the motherboard, making the chips, the glass for the screen, the plastic for the keyboard, the springs in the keys, the capacitors, the resistors, and on and on…

To make a Fair Trade laptop would require hundreds if not thousands of companies in the supply chain to have Fair Trade certified work places. So, if a company such as Dell or HP were able to build jus...

co founders wanted

co-founders wanted ist eine gute funktion fuer eine startup plattform. Idealerweise werden social profile abgeglichen und die treffergenauigkeit damit erhoet. Auch ein startup-kurs zum check der co founder kompatibilitaet (the founded) ist gut.

crowdfunding platforms and peer financing conference notes

http://thomashessler.blogspot.com/2010/03/peer-financing-conference-embarkon-sun.html

The Top Angels in Tech - BusinessWeek

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Crowedflower raised $5 million of funding

CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses outsource mundane or repetitive tasks to the cloud, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Venturesand Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Entrepreneurship is risk free: Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much | Startups and Life

Best blog i have ever read about the pros and cons to become an
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http://sameer.madhouse.in/entrepreneurship-is-risk-free-heads-i-win-tails-i-don%E2%80%99t-lose-much/

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Have a New Business Idea? Here's What You Should Do First : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum

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7 Essential Tools for Your Startup Company

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The 19 biggest surprises of startups - by Paul Graham

1. Be Careful with Cofounders

2. Startups Take Over Your Life

3. It's an Emotional Roller-coaster

4. It Can Be Fun

5. Persistence Is the Key

6. Think Long-Term

7. Lots of Little Things

8. Start with Something Minimal

9. Engage Users

10. Change Your Idea

11. Don't Worry about Competitors

12. It's Hard to Get Users

13. Expect the Worst with Deals

14. Investors Are Clueless

15. You May Have to Play Games

16. Luck Is a Big Factor

17. The Value of Community

18. You Get No Respect

19. Things Change as You Grow

read them here: http://paulgraham.com/really.html

VC Funding Season - by Mark Suster

START your process:

- January 6 – May 15th (green zone)

- May 16th – June 30th (yellow zone)

- July 1st – September 7th (red zone)

- September 8th – October 15th (green zone)

- October 16th – October 31st (yellow zone)

- November 1st – January 7th (red zone)

full articel: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/08/funding-season-ends-next-week/

8 Tips for Alternative Funding (10-25k are enough for software startups today)

 

 

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Early-stage success factores

There are already thousands of web companies providing a wide range of services, so why will a brand new company make money? At the heart of a web 2.0 startup are several theories:

1. Our new service will attract the following kinds of users: .....................
2. They will use it for the following purposes: ..................
3. Instead of a trusted brand, they will use a startup they've never heard of before because ......................
4. Even though some of the value is social, we will be useful to the first users because ..........................
5. Users will recommend us to their friends because ....................
6. Big competitors won't be able to copy our features as soon as they notice us because ........................
7. .................... will pay us $................... in return for ........................
8. Once we get critical mass it'll be hard for new startups to steal our users because ..........................

http://blog.tlb.org/early-stage-theories

crowd investment platform kaching.com

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The Funded - investment rating platform

Bewertungsplattform fuer Investoren und Foundern.
http://thefunded.com/

Uppspretta – First P2P Lending Service in Iceland

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Uppspretta – First P2P Lending Service in Iceland

News from the far north: Uppspretta (engl. resource) launched the first Icelandic p2p lending service earlier this month. Uppspretta's main goal is to allow startup companies to apply for microloans.

Uppspretta.is was founded by Björk Theodórsdóttir, Ingi Gauti Ragnarsson and Ragnheiður H. Magnúsdóttir. Uppspretta co-operates with Naskar, a group of Icelandic woman entrepreneurs, using them as a show-case for lenders and enabling a start with a secured supply of lender funds.

Iceland is a interesting market for p2p lending. While the market is small in size, the reputation of banks is nearing zero after the banking disaster last year. Theodórsdóttir told P2P-Banking.com: "There is definitely market for such a service as P2P lending in Iceland. We have been well received and in light of the bank's reputation, people celebrate the opportunity to bypass them. It's yet to be seen the impact Uppspretta will have on the lending market but we are optimistic that Uppspretta will be an real option beside the banks."

Furthermore he pointed out that unlike other players Uppspretta is free of regulatory chains: "We worked closely with the regulators in Iceland and the conclusion was that Uppspretta would not require any licence to operate.". Uppspretta charges a fee of 4 percent of the funded loan amount.

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20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Keywords: "Raw Data Now", "put your data on the net", "dbpedia chris bizer fu berlin"

Rethinking Poverty

The catchphrase goes, "Make poverty history." But how? These speakers' innovative ideas may convince you to forget the traditional models -- grants, aid, charity -- and consider business, technology and trade instead. read more

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