I’ve been interested in augmented reality for a while, I had Layar’s old app on my iPhone before they pulled it from the App Store for being too buggy, and then in February I blogged about their VC round (and an interesting person recogniser app), so when I saw on Techmeme this morning that The [...]
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 The following stats show exit values as a multiple of the amount of venture capital invested. I got the data from Andrew Romans of the Founders Club. Due to liquidation preferences you can expect that if the exit is less than or equal to the amount of capital invested the founders won’t have [...] Startup accelerators are becoming an important part of the ecosystem and it is great to welcome Denmark based Startupbootcamp to join Seedcamp in the European scene. The leading accelerators in the US are Y-Combinator and Techstars and one of the things that makes Startupbootcamp exciting is a tie up with Techstars. The startup accelerator model [...] Some of you will have caught the Tweet I sent on Friday asking for suggestions of new hosting companies for TheEquityKicker. Regular readers will know I think speed is important for websites and primarily for this reason I have been meaning to move away from Bluehost (my old hosting company) for a little while and was [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20 http://goo.gl/fb/9ytwl # Europe has become a more fertile place for tech companies http://goo.gl/fb/lzxk4 # received my new iPad today – first app I went for was The Times to see if people will pay for news. My conclusion – not in this format. # That said, I heard [...] Over on All Facebook they have been writing a lot this week about Facebook’s moves into search. Their thesis is that the ‘like’ is replacing the ‘link’ as a measure of authority and that Facebook has all the data to deliver the best search service. A couple of days ago they wrote about how [...] Take a look at Mary Meeker’s latest update of her Internet Trends slides. There is a tonne of good stuff in here indicating that mobile will be HUGE and that we are at or nearing an inflection point, not least: Smartphones will be more numerous than PCs by 2012 Smartphone will outnumber feature phones [...] Earlier this week usability expert Jakob Nielsen (famous for his eyetracker studies) published the results of some research into the importance of page response times to user experience and perceptions of brand. In his words “users really care about speed”. In Jakob’s assessment speed matters for two reasons: human limitations, espescially in the areas [...]
Nokia warned last week that its second quarter results would come in below guidance and as the FT reported their shares fell 10% as a result. Many analysts are saying that Nokia’s disappointing results are here to stay. Their problem is that they are losing market share in the smartphone market which is [...] An Economist article from last week opened with the sentence I’ve chosen for the title of this post, and it goes on to give a good account of where the European startup ecosystem has gotten to over the ten to fifteen years it has been in existence, both positive and negative. On the [...] |
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