Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
I was reading JP’s post from a week or two ago Agile contracts versus covenants and was reminded of the challenges of dealing with uncertainty. He wrote:
A short while ago I was musing over a classic problem to do with Agile [by which he means agile software development]: the traditional human desire for predictability, how that [...]
Interesting reading on Mashable earlier today that BitTorrent is launching a video store on Monday. Not surprising I guess since P2P is becoming the transport protocol of choice for broadband TV, with Joost and Bablegum both on this model.
All the high profile IPTV and broadband TV plays out there at the moment combine service and [...]
Saul Klein has organised this event on Thursday as a place for entrepreneurs to network with each other and investors.
Great idea. I will be there this week and hopefully frequently after that.
Details - Starbucks inside Espirit 178-82 Regent Street, London, 10am-12pm Thursday 1st March and I think each week after that.
More details on Meetup and on [...]
I’ve so far kept my football pretty much out of this blog, but today I have got to say CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MIGHTY BLUES.
We have now taken the first (small) step towards a possible quadruple - which as well as being record breaking would be awesome to behold.
I was in Cardiff and it was a great game - [...]
But I missed it. Gutted. Conference link here.
Fred has a some great posts about it here on Arrington’s keynote, here on Ben’s VC talk, and for the techies amongst you here on Google, Amazon and Mashups.
And Vecosys have a good day one summary here.
Everyone I have met all week has been buzzing about FOWA and I’m off to a [...]
Check out Startupping where successful web entrepreneurs share some thoughts on what they did that was good and not so good. (And thanks to Fred Wilson for the link.)
Picking out a couple of highlights:
Greg Linden, founder of Findory and previously of Amazon
Be cheap, but not too cheap. In retrospect, I think I have been too cheap [...]
Critics are up in arms about BBC plans to put ads on their website when it is viewed from abroad.
To me this is nuts.
The BBC is leaving money on the table if they don’t take ads and that money is yours and mine (for those of you that live in the UK at least). If [...]
Regular readers will know that in my view there is a clear trend towards selling MP3 files with no copy protection – ie with no DRM. Artists and record companies will hope to make back any revenue lost to piracy from increased merchandise and concert sales. Independent record labels (admittedly those with the least to [...]
I have written a lot about getting consumer internet services to critical mass - here with lessons from Betfair on the value of identifying early adopters, here on the “del.icio.us lesson” that personal value must precede network value, here on the importance of distribution, here on the importance of offline interaction, and here on thinking of communities as [...]
Nisan Gabbay’s Betair case study is up to his usual high standard. He describes Betfair’s success (which has been spectacular - shares last changed hands at a valuation of $3.2bn) and what they did to get there. The post is longish, but I highly recommend a full read.
At the end he identifies five themes present at [...]
