The Equity Kicker

A series of blog posts – fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital

Back in June I was on a venture capital panel at the Develop Games Conference in Brighton. I sit on these panels in large part to explain and demystify venture capital and as is often the case the other panelists and I were happy to devote much of the panel to discussing the [...]

Great to see the government actively supporting the startup ecosystem

If you live in the UK you probably saw the announcement from the Prime Minister last week that the government here wants to build a tech cluster in East London that will stretch from Shoreditch to the Olympic Park. You might even have seen some of the subsequent debate and coverage.

As [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31 http://goo.gl/fb/5UrR9 # Twitter Added 30 Million Users (28%) In The Past Two Months http://pulsene.ws/d5Sd # RIAA had Limewire shut down last week. The traffic looks like it has moved elsewhere, but what next? http://bit.ly/bQ5HWb # IFAs are creating special purpose vehicles for groups of private investors to buy [...]

People love video streaming services

Anyone in the UK will know about the popularity of the BBC’s iPlayer streaming service, and now data out from North America shows that consumers are taking to Netflix’s streaming movie service in the same way. In North America Netflix accounts for 20% of downstream internet traffic at peak times and 10% of Canadian [...]

Tablets will change the way we read books

On Monday there was an article on Techcrunch about a startup called Inkling that has developed an innovative digital textbook platform for the iPad (picture above). Their technology adds collaboration, multimedia, 3D, quizzes and social interaction to the basic reading experience and they have just released their first book/app – an iPad [...]

New DFJ Esprit website live

Our new website went live yesterday – please go and check it out and let us know what you think, positive and negative. We will do an update in the not too distant future and we’d love to incorporate your feebback.

I hope you like it, mostly because I want us to have [...]

Acquiring customers will be tough in ‘local’

I’ve been on holiday for the last week getting in some good thinking time, and ‘local’ is an investment area that I keep coming back to. This is not a new idea of course, but it may be one that will see a host of decent companies built over the next couple of years [...]