In the latest post in our series of Fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital Nicholas Lovell today posted on why raising too much money can be bad for a startup. This is an important point, and one that many people fail to [...]
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Twelfth 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, [...] Regular readers will know that I like open systems and am keen to see Android emerge as serious competition to Apple’s iOS. In the middle of last year Android started passing iOS in terms of new connections per month and according to the Millenial Media report for January 2011 Android has now beaten iOS [...] I am about to jump on a flight to visit a company for a two day due diligence session with a prospective investee company. We are getting pretty close to the point where we will negotiate a deal now (or not) and it is pretty common at this point in proceedings to go and [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06 http://goo.gl/fb/mYGpl # AOL and Huffington post – models for big news media in the digital age? http://goo.gl/fb/BANgT # Apple to end box software – everything will be digital http://bit.ly/eNiLwQ how long before there are no software/book/record shops? # Priority gmail now on the iPhone http://bit.ly/h5oWxf – how long [...] Yesterday AT&T announced unlimited free mobile to mobile calls within the US for their customers, a move they most likely felt forced to make in order to stop customers defecting to the iPhone that is only now available on Verizon’s network. As GigaOM point out this is a clear pointer to where the world [...] Getting to product market fit is the key to success for startup – that is when customers are buying product as fast as you can make it/sell it/provision servers. If you want to know more on this topic you should read Nicholas Lovell’s latest post in our series of Fifty questions you should [...] Last week we had the news that Apple blocked Sony’s book application from the App Store and now today the BBC is running a story describing how newspaper publishers are complaining about Apple interfering with their business models. They want to be able to offer free electronic versions of their papers to print subscribers [...] Amazon have released details of their next software update for Kindle and a key thrust is to make books social. They will do this via two new features: Public Notes – This feature lets Kindle users choose to make their book notes and highlights available for others to see. Any Kindle user – including [...] |
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