Archive for November, 2008
Koornk Blatantly Rips Off Twitter
There are a lot of Twitter clones out there, often built by companies outside the US trying to steal the company’s thunder by creating local communities with a translated application, something the San Francisco startup has focused little on so far. That this isn’t always a direct road to success, proved German Twitter clone Duduku [...]
Turning a Failing Restaurant Around
When Jonathan Rapp left his New York City restaurant to open a new one in rural Connecticut, he forgot to revise his strategy for new customers
The Entrepreneur: Jonathan Rapp, 41
Background: After a 10-year run operating the Michelin-starred, critically acclaimed New York City restaurant Etats-Unis with his father, Rapp moved to the small village of [...]
1 in 3 schools failing, poor teachers and £5bn of waste: Labour's lessons in incompetence fail 2million children