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It’s Chelsea takeover day on The Equity Kicker today. Yesterday was an incredible day at Stamford Bridge triumphing 8-0 on the day to win the league on the back of two other massive home wins. We’ve seen Chelsea bang in 23 goals in our last three home games. It’s an awesome [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02 http://goo.gl/fb/m0YB0 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02 http://goo.gl/fb/6uc7U # RT @ianbissell: good article on paywalls at small US papers – summary they slow the decline, but don't reverse it http://ow.ly/1GDYA #in # Good news. Apple under pressure from regulators to allow use of third party multi-platform dev tools [...] As with most VCs I frequently sit down with people in what are essentially interview situations. Some of the time these meetings are traditional interviews (and I’m writing this to crystalise my thoughts before a couple this morning) and some are meetings with senior execs in potential investments. These two types of interview [...] Apple is now making options available to iPhone advertisers on it’s recently purchased Quattro network that link directly to iTunes data and aren’t available on other networks like Admob (a DFJ investment). Full report on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/apple-vip-ad/. This is consistent with their ongoing strategy of making apps perform well on the iPhone and [...] The original title on this chart was “Creative Destruction is Accelerating”, and that is what it shows, as large companies get edged out of the S&P 500 more and more frequently. I chose a title for this post which reflects the positive side of this development – that new companies are breaking into the [...] Over the weekend Fred Wilson posted about his Evolved view of The Participating Preferred. The use (or not) of participating preferred shares is one of the most important terms in any venture deal and I was keen to read where Fred’s thinking is headed. It turns out that the place he is moving away [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25 http://goo.gl/fb/MYw8C # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25 http://goo.gl/fb/Lbk1H # Facebook’s Open Graph initiative could be a whopper http://goo.gl/fb/1dVEG # I'm enjoying super-speedy computing after re-formatting my hard drive and re-installing Windows. # RT @ianbissell: UK mobile ad spend growing fast, but still small – up 33% in 2009 [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25 http://goo.gl/fb/MYw8C # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25 http://goo.gl/fb/Lbk1H # Facebook’s Open Graph initiative could be a whopper http://goo.gl/fb/1dVEG # I'm enjoying super-speedy computing after re-formatting my hard drive and re-installing Windows. # RT @ianbissell: UK mobile ad spend growing fast, but still small – up 33% in 2009 [...] |
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