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This Saturday I attended the Humanity+ conference in London which was packed full of incredible talks about the impact of technology on biology and what it might mean for medicine and human longevity (topics you might remember me covering when I wrote a series of posts on Kurzweil’s Singularity theory). The second presentation was [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23 http://goo.gl/fb/2TkH7 # Sony’s Cloud-Based Qriocity Music Service Debuts In France, Germany, Italy And Spain http://pulsene.ws/QoeZ streaming IS the future # Quora’s challenges http://goo.gl/fb/Jy04e # @nickdonnelly It still doesn't quite resonate for me, sorry. Curated lists (eg by celebs) or personalised lists would be better. in reply to nickdonnelly [...] Amazon released their quarterly results yesterday and announced that they are selling 115 Kindle books for every 100 paperbacks – the first time their Kindle e-books outsold paperbacks. Amazon lead the market here, and I doubt that any other book retailer is anywhere near this watershed mark, but mark my words this trend [...] Jessica Livingston, one of the founders of Y Combinator wrote an article yesterday titled What stops female founders? which was partly about the under-representation of women in tech (4% of Y-C entrepreneurs are women) but also has a good slew of general advice for all entrepreneurs. I particularly liked the section headed ‘Thick Skin’ [...] Ninth 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, [...] Q&A sites are hot right now! Yesterday I wrote about Quora’s challenges and then today I find a great piece on Techmeme from Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow is one of 33 Q&A sites operated by StackExchange, and the interesting thing about that is that their model is to create multiple [...] Over the weekend Vivek Wadhwa put a post up on Techcrunch titled Why I don’t believe the Quora hype which has kicked off a bit of a storm in the blogo/Twittersphere (perhaps predictably given the number of self professed Quora devotees, and Vivek isn’t shy of courting controversy/publicity). A couple of weeks back I [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16 http://goo.gl/fb/y6VPj # Good description of the 'wedge strategy' for getting the first users to a platform from @cdixon http://bit.ly/ewRWBn # #plan GSMA Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, Spain) Feb 13-17, 2011 http://planca.st/MQt # Fred Wilson on the differences between web investing and traditional venture http://goo.gl/fb/74tAb # Facebook monetises at [...] Accelerators are becoming an increasingly important part of the startup ecosystem all around the world. Seedcamp here in Europe and TechStars and Y Combinator over in the US have set the standard for others to follow. Most of them offer startups the chance to exchange 5-10% of their equity for a small investment [...] As you might have seen Amazon announced the acquisition of Lovefilm yesterday for a rumoured £200m. Exits of this magnitude haven’t been too common of late in the UK startup scene so we, along with the Lovefilm management team and the other shareholders were very happy to see this deal completed. Particular congratulations [...] |
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