It is quite common for conferences to have a ‘venture capital panel’ with a collection of VCs, angels and maybe advisors who typically discuss what it is that VCs are looking for and how entrepreneurs might go about getting themselves funded, often with a sector focus. I was on such a venture capital panel [...]
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A couple of weeks back I blogged that the increasing importance to startups of partnerships with companies like Facebook are making the internet more and more like traditional areas of tech like software and semiconductors and is a sign of the maturing of the internet sector. This morning I have been struck by a [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04 http://goo.gl/fb/E7Twr # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04 http://goo.gl/fb/w2Wso # Finally fixed the wifi issues on my iPad – happy days # Fast response is critical for touchscreen apps. The Times iPad app is average on this count, at best. Pulse is a much faster news app. # Google [...] I finished reading Blank’s The Four Steps to the Epiphany a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to write a post about it since then. I read a fair number of business books and I blog about a few of the best of them (e.g. Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness, Cohen’s The [...] Yesterday I wrote about Google’s HTML5 apps on mobile and I want to share this comment that my friend Jof Arnold left in response: I love what this [HTML5] is doing for browser speeds; look at the performance of Chrome and Safari now (check out the demos on the Safari HTML5 gallery; realtime 3D [...] You may have seen the various reports today about the new YouTube HTML5 mobile site (perhaps the best write up is on Techcrunch) – they all say that the site runs as well or better than the native app on the iPhone, particularly with regard to video quality. Similarly there is a Google [...] I blogged about Dutch virtual reality business Layar last week and I spent 20 minutes last night playing with the app whilst I was waiting for a friend to come meet me for a drink in north London. As I mentioned in last weeks post they have an active developer community and what these [...] The mobile press in the last week or so has been lavishing huge praise on Apple for the iPhone 4, which by all accounts is an awesome device, and I am particularly interested to see what apps developers will build using the new gyroscope, as well as excited by the new screen and the [...] |
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