Price-earnings-multiples contraction continued as the tech world broadly witnessed a shift from high value enterprise to consumer applications that, no less sophisticated, still called for greater emphasis on cost even as performance thresholds rose.
Stocks mostly waned and became monthly trading vehicles as end market demand shifted to cost-sensitive iPods, DVDs, data-capable cellphones and affordable notebook PCs from high value enterprise applications.
Initially aimed at "high value enterprise and government customers," EarthNow lists things like storm monitoring, illegal fishing vessels (or even pirates), forest fires, whale tracking, watching conflicts in real time and more.
Water trading is enabling water to be moved from low value to high-value enterprises consistent with market demand.
And of course there's MongoDB, the NoSQL database company that is NYC's highest funded and highest valued enterprise startup, that is a potential candidate for a 2015 IPO.
If you define MENA as the 6 'GCC' countries plus Egypt, Lebanon & Jordan you will find the highest value consumers, enterprises and entrepreneurs.
Ms. Iturbide also puts a high value on events and enterprises that read as metaphor and symbol, like a commercial slaughter of a goat that she captions "Lamb of God".
Zoom.ai wants to give managers and others in enterprise a gift that has a very high value in business: Time.
"The social enterprise sector needs to know it can get high value, long-term contracts in order to give it the confidence it needs to attract investment and grow," said Petford.
Northampton Vice-Chancellor Nick Petford said at the launch: "The social enterprise sector needs to know it can get high value, long-term contracts in order to give it the confidence it needs to attract investment and grow.
An information product can also be a high value, high margin product that can add considerable profit to your enterprise.
