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Why ‘paid for’ content models won’t work on tablets

Fred Wilson has a great post up today arguing that the mobile web is really just like the wired web and that the economics of both are rapidly converging.  I particularly liked this passage where he talks about the inevitable failure of iPad magazine sales:

There is some discussion in the tech blogs today [...]

Happy holidays everyone

Life was a little hectic in the week before Christmas during which saw me finally succumb to the flu that has been afflicting my family (and come closer to taking my first day off work in ten years)  and finished at around 10pm on Christmas Eve with me sending out a termsheet [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19 http://goo.gl/fb/Iz8oh # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19 http://goo.gl/fb/LogOJ # Google cans launch of Google TV at CES on back of poor reviews – not good news for OTT TV lovers (including me) http://nyti.ms/iiRVoK # Facebook about to change the face of ecommerce? http://goo.gl/fb/aSPfz # Tap Tap Revenge 4 [...]

LPs expect to turn more towards venture in 2011

I don’t see much positive news coming out of the LP community about attitudes towards venture so I was very pleased to see the chart below in a recent Preqin report.  LPs are the pension funds and insurance companies that provide most of the money to venture capital and private equity funds, and Preqin [...]

Learning from Google’s difficulties in disrupting TV, mobile and music

If you’d asked me on Monday I would have told you that I’ve posted on this blog every working day bar one for the last four and a half years, but annoyingly I had a technology failure yesterday and the number of times I have failed to post is now up to two.  I [...]

Facebook about to change the face of ecommerce?

Bloomberg has an article today about Facebook’s push into ecommerce.  Apparently Facebook is:

teaming up with startups, vendors, and even giant Internet rivals to turn Facebook pages into online shopping outlets fuelled by recommendations from friends who "like" to buy

This will be interesting to watch.  I am keen to see which ‘Internet rivals’ [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12 http://goo.gl/fb/2FvqX # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12 http://goo.gl/fb/ggs3h # @will_dawson daily limit on NFC purchases in UK is £10-15 depending on who I ask. Sorry for slow reply. in reply to will_dawson # @scott_sage hah! Looking forward to playing with your new phone then! I don't think Android [...]

Applying lean startup thinking to raising money

The idea for this post, and in fact the idea of applying lean startup thinking to raising money came from a conversation I had with entrepreneur turned angel investor Sean Glass a week or two back.  Sean said he wasn’t going to get round to writing a post on the topic, and so I [...]

50 Questions: What’s the difference between seed, Series A, and Series B?

Regular readers will know I am writing a series of posts with Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which together will form the 50 questions you should ask before raising venture capital.

Last week Nicholas posted the 5th question in the series What’s the difference between seed, Series A, and Series B?, and for the [...]

Media consumption – mobile matches newspapers and magazines, TV flat to down

The Emarketer research on media conumption amongst US adults released yesterday makes interesting reading. 

Time spent online continues to grow, I imagine driven by gaming and social networking Time spent watching TV is slightly down but is still by far the largest category – not enough to call a trend, but maybe [...]