The charts below are taken from the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) Barometer just published.
They show venture investment in H1 this year collapsing at a faster rate than I expected and the UK still dominating.
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Chris Dixon has a post up on Silicon Alley Insider arguing that it is dangerous for startups to take seed investments from big venture funds (thanks to @robinklein for the pointer). His argument has two parts: If the seed VC decides not to invest in the Series A it will scare other VCs [...] The notion that there is more value created in the process of delivering purchases than in the process of creating the content which makes people want to buy in the first place has been buzzing round my mind since I read Chris Dixon’s post Why content sites are getting ripped off. He makes a [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04 http://cli.gs/7XM4v # Facebook cracking down on FB ad networks, hurting ad funded app developers. Another e.g. of the danger of dependency http://bit.ly/uDrfh # TV show piracy continues to grow quickly outside the US http://bit.ly/D83Mr – we need our Hulu!! # Published a new post: [...] Betanews reported yesterday on the Microsoft announcement that a cut down ad-supported version of Office 2010 will be distributed for free on new Windows 7 PCs. Users will be able to pay for access to the full version with no ads (the full version will be pre-installed and the user will purchase a [...] The quote below is from an interview Ray Ozzie did with Steve Gilmour, (full text on techcrunchit). It is a comment on Google Wave: I just know from the Groove experience most recently, from the Notes experience before that, when you create something that people don’t know what it is, when they can’t describe [...] Just about everything we buy these days is a premium product in the sense that we could either get by without it or go for a cheaper alternative. We live in an age of abundance and to make a product stand out enough to get bought there has to be something special about it. [...] High impact/low probability events can be both the making and the un-making of a startup. I’m talking about the sort of killer deal that if it comes off will transform a company’s prospects, but is hard to predict with any certainty. It might be a distribution or OEM deal with a much larger [...]
According to paidContent Adobe will today announce that full Flash will shortly be available on just about every phone except the iPhone. The underlying story here is that phones are now running more powerful processors and can now cope with full Flash, instead of the Flash Lite we have mostly been [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27 http://cli.gs/nnXAg # US mobile ad spend 2009 $416m, 2010 $593, emarketer, via @russellbuckley # Published a new post: Public companies are not set up for innovation http://cli.gs/J7v4H # @fredwilson on why the NYC startup scene works http://bit.ly/p07Eg. Nearly all of this applies to London [...] |
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