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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02 http://goo.gl/fb/tgGC5 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02 http://goo.gl/fb/nU1t9 # In case you missed it – Facebook was the most visited site in 2010 and 'Facebook' was most popular query on Google http://tcrn.ch/gwOaNa # Twitter, Facebook up and Google, RSS massively down as drivers of traffic to Techcrunch http://tcrn.ch/gLoQNe [...]

Musings on Quora

As you have probably heard Quora has seen a big increase in signups and activity since Christmas. The chart to the left shows the massive growth in Quora signups. It was posted yesterday by a Quora employee.

I first signed up a few months ago and whilst I asked a couple of questions and [...]

The growing number of liquidity options for startups

When I first started in the venture business in late 1999 the market was hot and deals were getting done very quickly, and with hindsight some of them were done too quickly and without enough analysis. Investment memos were briefer then than they have become since and I remember people joking that in the [...]

Learning from Twitter’s and Foursquare’s successful SXSW launches

There are a couple of interesting threads on Quora where over the last few days people have been discussing tactics for launching a product at the SXSW conference in Austin. As many of you will know, this is a hot topic because SXSW played a pivotal role in the early growth of Twitter (2007) [...]

2011 – the year when Google and Apple find themselves with real competition?

More competition for the major web platforms would be a significant boon for startups. Google’s huge margins make it more expensive and hence difficult for startups to acquire customers and grow and Apple’s restrictive policies for iPhone apps have a similar effect on companies in the mobile arena. For this reason I’m a keen [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26 http://goo.gl/fb/7NWw2 # Happy holidays everyone http://goo.gl/fb/U7Qem # Man VODA customer service is poor. No good positioning yourself as a premium network if the support isn't up to it # Why ‘paid for’ content models won’t work on tablets http://goo.gl/fb/Idlhh #