Sixth in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here, [...]
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It looks like Google is increasingly favouring its own properties in its search results. Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal have both run articles to this effect in the last couple of days citing examples in local search. It appears that Google is promoting Google Places at the expense of Yelp, Citysearch, TripAdvisor and [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05 http://goo.gl/fb/V3H8D # The impact of recession on startups – not as much as you might think http://goo.gl/fb/NYylj # Gmail: Priority Inbox Users Spending 15 Percent Less Time Reading Email http://pulsene.ws/sKka – more email productivity tools please! # ESPN customers not 'cutting the chord' to go for 'over the [...] You may have heard that the new Google phone (called the Nexus S, built by Samsung) has built in near field communications (NFC). You might not have heard yet the news from yesterday that Google is running an experimental local marketing campaign in Portland which uses the NFC capability. Any business in Portland which [...] Business Insider has an interesting post up today on why Groupon turned down Google’s $6bn. The short answer is that they have that the value of the business will continue to increase and concerns that the Google deal would get stuck in months of anti-trust investigations. On the back of these concerns the Groupon [...] The New York Times today reports on an interview with Susan Wojcicki, a Senior Vice President for new products at Google in which she was asked why it wouldn’t be easier for Google to build out a similar service than pay several billion dollars for Groupon? Not really, said Susan: “It’s hard to assemble [...] You may well have seen that yesterday Google announced the latest version of the Android platform (rev 2.3) which is called Gingerbread, and they also announced the release of the Nexus S – the follow up to the Google phone Nexus One. It seems to me that Google are executing brilliantly on [...] Techcrunch have a story up this morning: To date, US online holiday spending up 12% to $16.8bn, in fact revenues of ecommerce companies have grown consistently through two recessions since 1999 (source Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near). A recession is obviously never good news for anyone, but these stats are a timely reminder [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28 http://goo.gl/fb/UlhKR # Google rumoured to be buying Groupon for $2.5bn – would be big strategy shift for GOOG to put feet on the street http://tcrn.ch/fNnOjQ # Why content will free and newspaper brands must change http://goo.gl/fb/0IhXH # $40m Facebook Shares traded at $50 Billion valn on Second Market [...] Yesterday eBay acquired a company called Milo for $75m. Techcrunch reported on the deal with a post titled Confirmed: Ebay Acquires Milo For $75 Million. Investors Make A Killing. From an investor perspective the key to making a killing from a $75m exit is capital efficiency. Milo had only raised $5m. With that [...] |
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