Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Yesterday the Sunday Times reported that online sales will hit £78bn a year by 2010 - doubling the webs share of retail sales to 20%.
I love reading news like that!
It is fantastic for everyone active round the start-up scene in this sector.
On a personal level it is particularly good news for our investment in affiliate [...]
Yesterday I read the following on OnStartUps in The One Thing Wrong With Social Content Sites Like Digg:
I really only have one
major issue with the social content sites out there right now. The content
sucks. Though this may seem like a relatively strong statement to make, I’m
confident that if you visited any of these [...]
The graph below shows unique users to the top 25 consumer internet sites in April 2007. The data is US only and comes from Compete and Quantcast. I found the data on eBizMBA.
As well as it being fun to see how the different sites are getting on, I was struck by the massive [...]
I was at the Indentity2.0 Mashup* last night. The speakers and panel session were very interesting. That said, the balance of the discussion was on identity theft and consumer fear, and IMHO we could have done with some more time on subjects like profiling and clickstream mining. The product and business models are much clearer [...]
I will be speaking on web business models at the NMK Forum on June 13th.
I really enjoyed last year’s version, which was called Content2.0 and hopefully Mike Butcher and the other organisers will go one better this year. Mike certainly has high hopes, as he explains over on mbites.
Jason Calcanis will be doing the [...]
I have written before about how DRM might be more important in TV and film than it is in music (and maybe books). My argument was that musicians have multiple revenue sources, whereas TV and film producers only really have one. Musicians can be relaxed about piracy of their music in the [...]
Search is increasingly broken, right? That is certainly my experience and that of everyone I speak to, although I haven’t actually seen any evidence. As the web gets larger and people get more sophisticated at SEO (i.e. gaming search engines) then it is getting harder and harder to find what you want.
There are two ways [...]
I haven’t posted anything on web TV for a while, but reading about Jalipo on Vecosys and the rumours for a forthcoming VC round at Joost have got me thinking.
For those that don’t know Jalipo is a site where you can go and watch TV on a pay per view basis. You buy credits on the site and they [...]
These insights for entrepreneurs are a good read. They were apparently originally from OnStartUps - I found them via the entrepreneurs group on Facebook (thanks Paul for taking me there) but when I went looking I couldn’t find them on OnStartUps.
Pithy Insights For Startup Founders
1. Seek transparency and understanding with your partners early. Issues get harder as time [...]
I have often written about the importance of measurability and trackability to the growth of online advertising. Recently I also blogged about how backward the TV advertising world is in this respect.
Well it turns out that we have a few problems of our own - according to a survey from Comscore cookie based systems for [...]
