Every winter I help out as a volunteer for the CARIS Islington Cold Weather Shelter in north London near where I live. The NightShelter (as we call it) offers dinner, bed and breakfast for between 15 and I think around 50 homeless people every night for the first three months of every year. If [...]
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Fred Wilson gave a talk in February at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami where he listed his ‘ten golden principles of successful web apps’ (video and transcript are here on the Carsonified blog). Maybe surprisingly he put speed at number one – his logic: First and foremost, we believe that speed [...] For most of the ten years I have been a VC device fragmentation has be-deviled innovation in the mobile internet, and the iPhone’s success since 2008 came in large part because for the first time there was enough users on a single mobile device to attract a flock of application developers. However as you [...] I came to this list of Getty Images’ leadership principles via a conversation with buy.at founder Steve Brown and the blog of Emi Gal, founder of Seedcamp winner Brainient – and it is a good one. Trustworthiness, Transparency and Openness. We insist on honesty, integrity and openness. Raise the Bar. It is incumbent upon [...] Reported on the BBC today the Times and Sunday Times will start charging for online access to their content from June. Finally we get to see a paywall experiment from a major newspaper! It will be interesting to see how it goes, to say the least. The charge will be £1 per day or [...] Check out this video from SEOMoz about Linkscape, their link database which helps drive SEO by identifying and ranking the links into a page with the aim of understanding which ones are driving the search ranking. I learnt a lot about how search works from watching this. It is also a) pretty funny, and [...] If you haven’t seen a demo of Jack Dorsey’s Square yet, take a look at this video. The Square could revolutionise retail point of sale, making it a) radically cheaper to implement systems and b) much easier to introduce new ideas, like voucher redemption. Related articles by Zemanta Video: Jack Dorsey Talks [...] Image via CrunchBase Serial entrepreneur turned angel investor, chairman and venture partner with DFJ Esprit, William Reeve recently asked me for comments on an article he is writing on “How to pitch for funding” and when I saw the final version I immediately wanted to put it on here. Will [...] As I mentioned back in January and as you can see from the picture above the UK and Ireland Tech Tour is coming up next month. I’ve been on two Tech Tours before and they work well. I will be attending this one. For those that aren’t familiar with the format, the Tech Tours [...] |
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