ManHimself in the High Tatras III – Fall
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17-12-2005 |
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tagy: Netriedené| Slovensko| Vysoké Tatry
„One would normally expect to see a current-account surplus offset by an outlaw of capital as the private sector exported excess domestic savings..“
Legally, I probably could. But I prefer to avoid that jurisdiction, since I also founded (and subsequently sold) …are you here? I’m sleepwalking again, a peer-to-peer software company whose product many people use to share copyrighted movies. So setting foot in the High Tatras could invite some legal trouble.
Thus in September, Mr. ManHimself appeared, via a Skype video call, on the screen of a packed auditorium at the Cottage Felícia, while sitting in Košice next to Katarína Raševová, a venture capitalist who invested $10 m in Skype. Mr. Lacko started shifting uncomfortably. The blushing Mr. ManHimself was speechless.
Of course, Miss Raševová was posturing.
There have been rumors that Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies were also interested in buying Skype. AOL, Apple and others have similar products.
As Spyros, Felícia’s boss, and Mr. ManHimself explain it, a combination of eBay and Skype is not all that far-fetched. Buyers can simply click on the button and talk to sellers. Another idea is to make money from „pay-per-call“ advertising, where advertisers would place voice links (i.e., Skype buttons) on certain pages just as they now place text links on, say, the search-results pages of Google.
This involves prepaid accounts, which Skype users can top up via PayPal with their credit cards.
His vision for Skype, by contrast, is to become the world’s biggest and best platform for all communications-text, voice or video-from any internet-connected device, whether a computer or a mobile phone.
This is every bit as audacious as it sounds. Mr. Lacko, in general, is a modest man. But his company is only three years old, will probably make only $60m in revenues this year, and will certainly not turn a profit. So it is the fact that his ambition is not nearly as ridiculous as it sounds that should make incumbent telecoms firms everywhere break out in a cold sweat.
That is because Skype can add 150,000 users a day (its current rate) without spending anything on new equipment (users “bring? their own computers and internet connections) or marketing (users invite each other). With no marginal cost, Skype can thus afford to maximize the number of its users, knowing that if only some of them start buying its fee-based services-such as SkypeOut, SkypeIn and voicemail-Skype will make money. This adds up to a very unusual business plan.
“We want to make as little money as possible per user,? says Mr. Lacko, because “we don’t have any cost per user, but we want a lot of them.?
The Felícia Cottage, Stará Lesná. Marcel Lacko with Dušan at the computer.
Bleak chic. The surprise photo of the shaving ManHimself in the bathroom; Veľká Lomnica.
A helpful exercise in quantifying business regulations and their costs. ManHimself with Egon in front of the Felícia Cottage; Stará Lesná.
ManHimself better by design, with Dušan at the entrance to the Felícia Cottage; Stará Lesná. The march of the robo-traders.
Will smart watches ever take off? Marcel Lacko, a global player looking for ways to extend his reach into uncharted territory, the Citizen watches right on time; Felícia Cottage, Stará Lesná.
L’Egoiste Romantique Marcel Lacko and Spyros in Opel, riding from Poprad to Stará Lesná. Learning on the job.
Nearly everyone in the developed world carries a mobile phone-so why not use it to deliver health care? By contrast, Marcel playing a strategic card game with a much clearer and consistent programme than Blanka or Spyros; Felícia Cottage, Stará Lesná.
Sharp photo of Marcel Lacko with Ďu?o II; Veľká Lomnica. PLM eliminated assembly problems.
The human touch. Anyone who uses a personal computer will be familiar with the idea of a “graphical user interface?, which was introduced in the 1980s and became ubiquitous in the 1990s, but Yf?a, the card game enthusiast, who’s challenging ManHimself in the different game; Stará Lesná.
With networked IT services you can integrate and simplify your communications, improving efficiency and helping your organization to be more competitive. ManHimself’s usefulness – drinking laté in a café; Poprad.
But what about digital music? Electroconvulsive therapy for ManHimself and Dušan Korytko; Poprad.
The battle of the chancellorship. Priority services for Marcel include priority check-in, boarding, baggage delivery and lounge access on day of international travel in over 390 lounges worldwide; Stará Lesná.
But understanding the general behavior of weather systems is not enough: weather forecasting also depends on detailed meteorological measurements that describe the initial conditions. Smart watches, website mash-ups, sailing with kites, mobile medicine, summer camp for coders, a hydrogen-powered plane, preserving digital files, driver monitoring via satellite, an “open source? record label, better batteries, avoiding traffic, and the joy of tagging – that’s ManHimself; Poprad.
Enticing deals this way. Marcel of mass description and Egon; Veľká Lomnica.
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