Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
One of the small things I like about Facebook is that I have used it as a repository to store interesting quotes when I hear them. On the assumption that most of you haven’t read my FB profile I thought I’d share them here. Enjoy.
“it is easier to bury reality than it is [...]
I missed this Techcrunch post on monetising Facebook apps back in July. It describes three companies that are experimenting with differing monetisation models:
fbExchange which allows Facebook app owners to trade space with each other - basically a cross promotion scheme
Lookery founded by Scott Rafer of Mybloglog fame - he is building an ad network [...]
I saw this on Deep Jive Interests. The lady in question was in Toronto and Facebook was a better way for the authorities to find her than the traditional institutional routes. Interesting to see an unexpected application like this popping up. They found her within an hour.
David Crane of Debatewise wrote a great post about what he got out of Seedcamp over on the Seedcamp blog. It is full of juicy goodness and great to read that David (and others) got a lot out of Seedcamp week. The whole post is worth a read but I wanted to pick out one [...]
Techcrunch yesterday reported rumours that Google is building a Second Life competitor.
I have a couple of observations/thoughts about that :
Is it me or are virtual worlds suddenly more fashionable than toga parties in freshers week? To my knowledge just about all the major tech companies have a play in this area now - and [...]
I love investments that are all about getting in at the beginning of a new market. If you are the first player then you have got a great shot at being market leader, and provided the market is big enough if you are market leader you are going to be worth a lot of money.
Just [...]
Not infrequently I come across companies where everyone is really busy and works hard, but somehow things just aren’t moving forward as quickly as they should. Usually these companies have a burn rate that is too high and/or unsustainable.
This can feel like an intractable problem - everyone is working so hard after all, and it [...]
These are more thoughts from Taleb on how to avoid being fooled by randomness - this time in the use of language. Consider these two passages:
The main theme of the works of Rushdie is not theory, as the dialectic paradigm of reality suggests, but pretheory. The premise of the neosemanticist paradigm of [...]
Let me say before I start that I very much welcome the arrival of AIM on the London scene over the last few years. It offers liquidity and fundraising options to companies that simply weren’t available in this country (and to an extent Europe) before. That became even more important when NASDAQ was clobbered by [...]
From Mashable:
At a Merrill Lynch conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, MySpace will unveil the full scope of its plans to target ads to every MySpace user. In testing for 6 months, and the result of their Strategic Data Corp acquisition, it’s a plan that could finally turn their 110 million active users into cash.
The [...]
