Dear readers, last month Artur Meyster (more about him at the end of the post) approached us wanting to collaborate with content. So, without further ado, his thoughts on disruption. New tech inventions are disrupting incumbent industries around the world. They have become indispensable for companies to stay relevant. However, for workers not everything is…
In the beginning In the 70s Bill Gates and Paul Allen were programmers. Different from a formal employment, both of them only made software to whoever needed. As such, they needed compensation -at least- to make a living. However, there was one problem, up until that time, a programmer worked for a company which made…
In case you’re not aware of, Magic Leap is one of the hottest startup lately. Their pitch? An AR company with a technology that’s going to revolutionize the field As such, they’ve raised (up until today) ~1.4$ Billion. Many big investors are behind this company, including Alphabet. Presumably most of them have seen a private…
Last week I had the great opportunity to visit Mexico city (a.k.a, Mexico DF: Federal District). I had the chance to get to know this wonderful, vast, complex and majestic city. The visit was mainly to expand our business and market what Terra Icons does. I met amazing people, companies and future partners. I continue…
So you got your idea, maybe you already have a website hosted or in the cloud. Now you need to execute on that idea. Assuming this idea involves a software project, how do you proceed? Well, I’m going to share an small part on what’s needed to know in order to execute better, or at…
Since the day we started working on AR, one of the way we envisioned it’s potential was by business being present on the medium (geo AR). Geo AR it’s not the only use case of this technology, however we believe is the strongest one as it’s base on functionality rather than entertainment (nothing wrong with…
Many of us have seen or witness the worldwide battle between Uber and taxi drivers. Long history short, taxi drivers are defending their livelihood, while Uber represents the new way of working. The thing is, taxi services around the world are regulated by cities. So, in order to operate a taxi, the owner of it…
VR as a concept is decades old, started to make inroads on the PCs on the 90s, never to popularized as envisioned. Then, on this decade (2010s) a crazy guy decided to make a VR headset, which in turn got the attention of a games mogul, which in turn got the attention of Facebook and…
Project Tango is one of the many experiments Google Alphabet has. In short, is a tablet with extra sensors that enables it to have enhanced functionality no other tablet (or computer) has. Specifically it can sense the world around the device (it did it way before HoloLens was announced), and with this information, it can…
We previously talked about the phenomenon we baptized the Ghost of being too early, or as it is known in the entrepreneur world: Timing. History is plenty of failed products that were introduce too early, later to be introduce successfully by another party, in many cases a similar or the same product. The latest of…