Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20 http://cli.gs/PaAJv # Rage Against the Machine have the first ever digital download only Xmas number 1. A victory for the web on a number of levels. # Published a new post: Carrier decks losing share rapidly http://cli.gs/aREBG # Published a new post: Stealth mode, [...]
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2009 has turned out to be a good year for us at DFJ Esprit and I hope it has for you too. After a difficult start I think the operating environment for most startups stabilised over the summer and turned mildly positive towards the end of the year. Whilst life is obviously easier [...] I’ve never really understood why some entrepreneurs decide to put their companies in ‘stealth mode’ and so when I saw Vivek Wadwha’s Techcrunch post Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets I was on it in a flash. When I meet entrepreneurs with stealth mode startups I always ask why [...] We’ve seen this movie before, but on the wired web. Ten years ago BT and other ISPs had portal aspirations which they ultimately abandoned. Now as devices improve and mobile internet usage gets more sophisticated wireless carriers are seeing their market share erode. How long before one of them does a deal with Yahoo! [...] Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13 http://cli.gs/BzN2R # Published a new post: Internet T’s & C’s – do we have a problem? http://cli.gs/ysqeP # Published a new post: The best companies are analytical http://cli.gs/6hULQ # Published a new post: Your help with a new strapline for DFJ Esprit http://cli.gs/mBeX6 # [...] Regular readers will know I see the iPhone/app store as a passing phase in mobile, a step on the way to a web paradigm equivalent to what we have on the PC. One of the big questions is how long this current phase lasts and with the momentum of the iPhone and the rush [...] Simon Fuller, the creator of the most watched show in the US for the past eight years American Idol, will premiere his new show on Hulu. It is then expected to air on a traditional television network several months later. This is a departure from the traditional MO for US networks where they [...] Here at DFJ Esprit we have been working on a new strapline. We are looking for something pithy which captures the essence of what makes us different and unique and explains why you should want to work with us. After some soul searching we came up with three key messages that we want to [...] There is a new survey out from IBM which has found: Top-performing companies were 15 times more likely to apply analytics to strategic decisions than their underperforming peers and: In addition, top performers were 22 times more prepared to challenge the status quo in their organizations, rethink current strategies and business processes, and aggressively [...] Jason Calacanis’s discussion of Facebook’s recent change of T’s and C’s I was touches on a subject that has been bugging me for some time – whether the T’s and C’s we all accept all the time on the web are going to be enforceable and if not what sort of problems [...] |
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