Lorenzo Manes

"Basically you submit the book, you set the price for it, we charge the customer and then we give you 35 percent of the revenue. And Amazon keeps 65 percent? That sounds like a lot. Does it? You’re an author, what does your royalty check look like? Are your royalties 35 percent?" - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet

"# If a book is available on Kindle, it sells 48 copies compared to 100 physical copies sold. # Kindle launched with 90,000 titles two years ago. # More than 350,000 titles are available for the Kindle now. # Amazon is adding thousands of titles to the Kindle library every week. # Amazon wants to offer “every book ever printed in every language, all available within 60 seconds.”" - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet

è il tipo di funzionalità che nel 2007 abbiamo cercato di sviluppare su Lulop.com utilizzando segmentazione automatica dei video, segmentazione manuale attraverso il player flash, indicizzazione in Mpeg7. Qua e là sul web rimane qualche traccia delle sperimentazioni interrotte per mancanza di soldi da investire. Peccato, eravamo al'avanguardia sul concetto e nell università italiane c'era abbastanza tecnologia disseminata da FP4 mi sembra. Positivo che oggi Marco Bertini del MICC di Firenze cerchi di costruire un motore di ricerca video - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet

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lo posto anche se davvero non ne capisco e ripeto: senza statistica nè programmazione tra le proprie conoscenze oggi è dura farsi opinioni di prima mano. - Lorenzo Manes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... non e` esattamente un'idea nuova :) comunque interessante che pensino a potenziare le loro capacita` di trasporto in tempi di crisi. - dasnake

finisce che mi dovrò studiare la questione :-( - Lorenzo Manes

"US startups can reach scale hitting the 300 million English-speaking, dollar-spending Americans. For a European to reach scale, they have to work out how to operate in France, Germany, the UK and dozens of other countries. That’s a huge barrier to entry and a meaningful competitive advantage" - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet

"8 of the top 25 media groups were European, representing 22% of revenues, whilst 2 were Asian. If you look at global new media audiences, you found 4 European groups representing 3% of audience !!" - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet

the proportion of media revenues coming from online, which is much higher for US companies than their European counterparts (in April 2008, it was 10% for US players and a mere 3.8% for the Europeans). Whilst France is busy passing backwards anti-piracy laws under intense lobbying from its industry, the war is being lost. In a few words, the digital disruption is rocking the content world and wiping out the European media brands.” - Lorenzo Manes

"The entrepreneur’s job isn’t to come up with a neat idea An entrepreneur’s job is to derisk the idea through execution and if it’s the kind of business that will require a lot of capital to build then the job is to de-risk it to the point at which such capital can be brought in." - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet

"This is the best environment in history to get a tech/media company off the ground with AWS/EC2 type services; with all the ad networks for revenue and adwords lead sources; tools like Ruby on Rails… if you’re going to bleat that you need VC funding to hire programmers to build something, then you’re not an entrepreneur." - Lorenzo Manes

Klaus Hommels, business angel, a una confernza in UK : "Structurally we fucked it up. European tech companies would normally have been picked up by media companies in Europe but they are in such a bad state this is not possible. So before anyone puts money into new companies, we need to ask: who is going to buy all the shit in our existing portfolios?!” (I think he might have meant to say ’stuff’, however…) He went on: “With B2B companies you run into a wall trying to convince Europe companies to adopt early models. It’s much easier to tack onto a US advertising play than onto a European play – so what keeps me awake is the structural disadvantage we have here. Angel investment is altruism here compared to the US.” - Lorenzo Manes from Bookmarklet