March 2011
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LVMH private equity fund targets India →
“The world’s largest luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Group, will launch its private equity fund in India, in an attempt to tap the burgeoning disposable income and rising aspirations of the country’s urban population, especially women.”
WatchVimeo iPhone app via morpheusmedia
HTML5 Is Breathing New Life Into the Web →
“Right now, we’re in a native apps world,” says John Lilly, a venture partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. “But people are underestimating the power of the Web. I think we’re going to see an explosion of Web-based apps over the next couple of years.”
The Implicit Social Graph →
Great post: @fredwilson on Color and the implicit social graph
Charlie Sheen Is Winning →
Must read: @breteastonellis on Charlie Sheen, transparency and ‘post-Empire’ entertainment
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup... →
“Page’s mandate now is to renew Google’s energy and drive, and in some ways he is the perfect person to perform that task. He is also perhaps the quirkiest person to ever run a $30 billion company. Google has had a wild ride over its first 12 years. It’s about to get even wilder.”
WatchSHOWstudio: Nick Knight shoots Monika Jagaciak in Christian Dior haute couture AW 2010 for AnOther magazine, Shot 4
Super Mario management →
The Economist: “Management consultants, who have long pondered the question of how to motivate workers, could do worse than study how Blizzard Entertainment, which develops World of Warcraft, keeps its game players happy and productive… Traditionalists may scoff. But reality is already beginning to learn from its virtual counterpart. Lessons from game design have been used by Nike to...
How Angry Birds Took Off →
“Angry Birds was the product of a very deliberate strategy that combined business acumen with technical expertise.”
FT: The tastes of China's newly wealthy →
“Both McKinsey and CLSA point to the fact that China’s rich really are different from their western counterparts and the luxury brands themselves are having to adjust their approach. Chinese millionaires, for example, are 15 years younger than their overseas peers and they spend more per transaction.
Unlike in the west, men such as those in Louis Vuitton’s Hong Kong store account for a larger...
The Virtual And Physical Worlds Are No Longer... →
Must-read #sxsw wrap-up with a focus on the convergence of the web and the world via @AgendaInc
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WatchA dark, gothic, street look at Chanel via wmagazine