Reid has a guest post on Techcrunch today where he lists his three rules for investing in internet companies. Armed with this framework he says “After five minutes of a pitch, I know if I’m not going to invest, and after 30 minutes to an hour, I generally know if I will.” – which [...]
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The only print media I buy regularly is the Financial Times, and as they have increased their cover price from 80p maybe seven years ago to £2 as of earlier this month I have kept buying. However this latest increase (from £1.80) has really got me thinking whether it is worth it. That [...] Sarah Lacy had a good post on Techcrunch on Friday: Venture Capital Down 50%. It’s Not Just the Recession, Folks. The charts below tell the story. That is a pretty depressing picture, but then again we are in the middle of the worst recession that most of us can remember. I would also [...] For some time now it has been apparent that social media companies have to make customers party to strategy decisions. The best example of this is still the AACS encryption key controversy on Digg in May 2007 when Kevin Rose backed his users by defying cease and desist orders demanding that DVD decryption [...] It is a common complaint these days that we are all drowing in information and that it is exhausting trying to keep up with everything. For me the problem is not in the information, but in the trying to keep up with everything. In most areas our brains are well used to dealing with [...] From BuyGeniusReport: So check this: AT&T just launched a service called FamilyMap. It basically let’s you locate any number on your AT&T account for a monthly fee. Here’s the thing though… besides the first notification text message alerting that subscriber they are being tracked, everything else is completely silent. For instance, we signed up [...] What is certain at the moment is that we are in the midst of deep recession and that ad spend in traditional media is declining, often rapidly. However there isn’t a lot of agreement on what online ad spend is going to be this year. Here are some of the data points: POSITIVE: ZenithOptimedia [...] This is from the Guardian earlier today: Despite the aura of heroic young enterprise that still miraculously attaches to the web, what we are seeing is a much older and toxic capitalist model – the classic monopoly that destroys industries and individual enterprise in its bid for ever greater profits. Despite its diversification, Google [...] Yesterday’s hot rumour as reported by Mike Arrington on Techcrunch is that Google is in early stage discussions to acquire Twitter. As Mike points out the obvious logic for Google is based on realtime being the next frontier for search and Twitter being the lead company in that space. Their $1.7bn YouTube acquisition [...] We have the G20 in London this week to co-ordinate a response to the credit crunch with leaders all around the world saying the unprecedented levels of integration between our economies require unprecedented levels of co-operation between governments. The same is true of the web. In the UK we have some of the strictest [...] |
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