Seventeenth 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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Yesterday Mike Butcher twittered that he had forgotten to get a prize for the winner of the startup competition at the Geek’n’rolla conference today. Reading that, we at DFJ Esprit scratched our heads to see if we could help and thought it would be kind of cool to offer the winner [...] I’m very pleased to say that the UK is becoming an incredibly entrepreneur friendly place, largely courtesy of a number of government initiatives. The statistic being bandied around Whitehall is that 1.3m of the last 2.4m jobs created in the UK were created by startups, and something like 80% of those were created by [...] I’m often asked to opine on potential names for companies, both at the formation stage and when they are considering a change of name, usually following a shift in focus. Having this morning read what Techcrunch described as the seminal post on the subject of choosing a company name which was written by VC [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-20 http://goo.gl/fb/YxogA # Removing the paid link from my left sidebar http://goo.gl/fb/OxnuP # Amazon Gives Kindle Book-Swapping Service Lendle The Axe http://pulsene.ws/15VMP (but they do allow very limited snook lending) # Facebook Secondary Stock Just Surged To $34 on Second Market. That’s An $85 Billion Valuation. http://pulsene.ws/15Tzm # @pemo [...] A couple of weeks back I wrote that Google was getting its mojo back on the back of a couple of exciting product announcements they made in February. This has been another good week for the same reason: In-app billing is (finally) coming to Android – this is huge, the health of [...] A question on everyone’s lips at the moment is whether the $billion valuations that a number of the top private internet companies are attracting are here to stay. My answer is that all of them look toppy, but some could turn out to be justified by strong revenue and earnings growth over the next [...] Yesterday was Demo Day for Y Combinator‘s latest crop of startups and All Things Digital has a brief description of 24 of the 43 presenting companies. Apparently 19 of the presentations were ‘off the record’ and were not included. Additionally, one company didn’t present because it was already under termsheet for a Series [...] The New York Times released details of their paywall last week and they are a) complicated, and b) full of holes that people can exploit to avoid payment. I’ve been saying for a long time that paywalls aren’t the answer and the fact that after a year of work the NYT have come [...] Some of you may have noticed that until today there was a link in my left sidebar for Credit Land. After reading the recent chatter on the trouble that JC Penney got into for buying links and then finding numerous statements from Google’s Matt Cutts that they will punish sites that sell links which [...] |
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