Anthony Feint has a great post today on how to launch a web startup with the minimum possible budget. He was writing in response to a ReadWriteWeb post on the same topic which suggests the minimum you can get by with is $47,500 – an amount Anthony says is laughably high. Kevin [...]
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I’m at an AMR organised local search conference where lots of local advertisers have been talking about how they spend their marketing budgets and where they are getting the best bang for their buck. Perhaps unsurprisingly the main story is the transition away from print and onto the web. In this case the dying [...] According to the FT this morning Bloomberg and Dow Jones are both adding staff to their Newswire operations – in Bloomberg’s case including 100 journalists. On the other hand newspapers are, as we know, shedding people and shutting down. This makes sense to me as we still need journalists, but increasingly newspapers aren’t able [...] Facebook just announced their Open Stream API. Users will now be able to see and interact their Facebook stream in third party applications – just like Twitter. For me this will significantly increase the utility of Facebook, or at least it will as soon as I can get in Tweetdeck! I look forward to [...] New data released from Admob has Android now accounting for 6% of the mobile ad requests on their network, with the iPhone still dominant at 50%. Blackberry is the other big player with 22%. In related data, sales of the Android G1 phone are now estimated at around 1m in the US, and the [...] Microsoft reported Q3 results yesterday and they weren’t pretty – the first ever drop in overall revenues compared with the year ago quarter and online revenues down 14% were the main lowlights, although good news was thin on the ground. I will leave the detailed commentary to others more qualified, but it looks to [...] At the BVCA/Real Deals awards dinner last night we were pleased and honoured to receive the award for Venture Capital Deal of the Year for our investment in buy.at, which was acquired by AOL for $125m last year. Thanks go out to the organisers and judges but espescially to the team that [...] I am having problems with a renegade backup script and TheEquityKicker may be offline for short periods over the course of today (hopefully not longer….) Apologies for the disruption and please bear with me. |
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