RT @unrulymedia: Foursquare looking for search deals saying their trending data would improve real time results http://ow.ly/2dnNA # Cameras mounted on Tokyo billboards detect age, gender and tailor messages http://bit.ly/bPRMEd # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18 http://goo.gl/fb/QEs6x # Raising money for a venture capital fund is a bit like raising money for a [...]
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I’m taking a bit of time with the family over the next three weeks and don’t expect to be posting much here. Just thought I’d let you know Earlier this week we held a session where Simon Morris, Marketing Director of our portfolio company Lovefilm shared experiences and brainstormed some ideas with a company in which we are thinking of making an investment. One of the things he shared is that he has always built the marketing at Lovefilm around three pillars [...] I’m going to join what seems like the rest of the blogosphere in congratulating Zuckerberg and Facebook on reaching 500m active users (see Zuck’s post announcing the milestone here). That is a phenomenal number of people and it is an amazing achievement to get there in six years. It is also worth noting [...] You might have seen this graphic on Techcrunch last week. It shows that VCs in the developed world expect their industry to shrink over the next five years. The most dramatic rate of decline is expected in the US, but the picture in Europe is not much better, and crucially the industry [...] Image via Wikipedia Those of you in the UK will probably have seen or read about David Cameron‘s ‘big society’ speech over the last 24 hours. For those that haven’t his central message is that here in the UK we need to change the way we think about government [...] Alan Patricof is one of the most experienced and successful VCs around. He was one of the founders of Apax Partners which is one of the most successful venture and private equity companies in European history and his investment successes include Apple Computer and AOL. Most recently he founded an early stage venture fund [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11 http://goo.gl/fb/mAozS # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11 http://goo.gl/fb/j0Jbu # In social networks the default assumption is good behaviour http://goo.gl/fb/ZxFj4 # The internet sector is maturing, two more signs http://goo.gl/fb/fhTex # @yawdogs ? in reply to yawdogs # Just arrived at Develop Conf in Brighton, on a VC panel [...] If you have been reading this blog over the past couple of weeks you might have picked up that I’m a big admirer of Steve Blank and his thinking about how to build startups. Yesterday he wrote a blog post entitled Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) which sets out [...] The news is out today that Foursquare’s founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai took home $4.64m of their recent $20m Series B. As I’ve written a couple of times before I think this sort of cash out deal can be really helpful in aligning the interests of management and investors. Last year I quoted [...] |
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