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Great to see some competition/innovation in search

There is a good piece in the New York Times today which lists a lot of ways in which Bing is better than Google.  Here are some:

Speed – of initial results and in the way it helps to find the right result, minimising clicks and dead ends Preview of search results without clicking [...]

July 9th, 2009 | Category: Google, Microsoft, Search | One comment

Ad spend to move from buying media to participating in it?

I have been wondering for some time whether the next wave of ad spending will be spent on participating in social media rather than buying media in the traditional sense.  I think this could be a very big deal for brands – as the promise is to be in perpetual conversation [...]

July 8th, 2009 | Category: Advertising, Social networks | 11 comments

Marc Andreessen lays out some core principles of venture capital

You might have seen that Marc Andreessen and Bradley Horowitz announced a new $300m fund yesterday, named Andreessen Horowitz and with just the two of them as partners.  They have no website.

With the precision and clarity that made me a big fan of his blogging until he stopped last year [...]

July 7th, 2009 | Category: Startup general interest, Venture Capital | One comment

The eocnomics of free and consumer internet startups

Fred Wilson wrote a post over the weekend talking about Chris Anderson’s book Free and how it applies to consumer internet businesses (if you are unfamiliar with the basic arguments of ‘Free’ then I have written about them before, most recently here, and Alan Patrick has a very useful take here).

Fred’s point is [...]

July 6th, 2009 | Category: Business models, Facebook, Social networks | 7 comments

If Facebook was a country it would be world’s fourth largest

There is an article in the FT today that asks whether Facebook is a “web phenomenon on the cusp of greatness or just a social craze?”, and as we’ve discussed here before the last thing any of us needs is for it to turn out to be a fad.

I think it is just [...]

July 3rd, 2009 | Category: Facebook, MySpace | 4 comments

Maximising productivity in venture capital

Brad Feld posted a couple of days ago about Saying No In Less Than 60 Seconds in which he talks about the 10-50 times a day he has to say no to deals and meeting requests, and that as a result he has to do so quickly.

As Brad describes it there are [...]

July 2nd, 2009 | Category: Startup general interest, Venture Capital | 16 comments

Joost’s B2C strategy failed due to lack of focus

Om Malik has a great post up today on GigaOM reporting on Joost’s announcement that it will now offer a white-label video hosting platform whilst at the same time letting some people go and closing its Netherlands office.  The reason for this shift in strategy is clear in the chart below – they haven’t [...]

July 1st, 2009 | Category: Google, Startup general interest, TV, Venice Project | 6 comments
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