Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13 http://goo.gl/fb/vtxjK # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13 http://goo.gl/fb/yqu0G # I just completed stage 11, day 1 of #SquatFu – I did 201 squats (201 in a row) and scored a A grade! # Just checked out The Equity Kicker on iPad feed reader Pulse. It looks good. If [...]
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My friend and co-author Nicholas Lovell regularly sets out his belief that the future of digital media is a tiered business model where the majority of users get the content for free and heavy users pay, with very heavy users paying heavily. The games industry has made this model work with free to play [...]
There is an increasing amount of talk about 3D printing at the moment, and not without reason. 3D printing technologies have the potential to transform hardware startups in the same way as open source software and the cloud have transformed web startups. By driving the cost of getting first product to market [...] Fifteenth 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, [...] There was a post on Techcrunch over the weekend titled The walled garden has won. Regular readers will know I’m a big proponent of open systems and hence I read this piece with interest. Regrettably I think the title is accurate, although I don’t think the news is all bad. Let me explain. [...] This infographic from GigaOM is interesting. As mentioned in the title Facebook and Twitter have a very similar demographic. I was surprised by this at first, but on reflection maybe it is only to be expected – user bases as large as Twitter or Facebook are probably unlikely to deviate much from overall internet [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06 http://goo.gl/fb/cixg3 # Facebook Hits Record $75 Billion Valuation On SecondMarket http://pulsene.ws/1428I – after a blip the trend is once again firmly upward # Technology augmented human capability http://goo.gl/fb/eRTLB # Skype is performing well – Revenue Up 20 Percent To $860M In 2010; Paid Users Up 19 Percent http://pulsene.ws/14jIP [...] In the latest installment of our 50 Questions series on Wednesday Nicholas Lovell answered the question ‘How much money should I raise?’ He walks through the arguments for raising as much as you can, and for avoiding raising too much (remember: Too much money can kill your company) concluding that only when you [...] I wrote this post when I was offline and forgot to publish it when I got back to the office —————— One of the joys of being a venture capitalist is taking vicarious pleasure from the success of your portfolio. Yesterday our portfolio company Zeus Technology received an unsolicited email from one of [...] Henry Blodget’s Business Insider network of news blogs revealed yesterday that their 2010 revenues were $4.8m and they made a small profit. Their revenues came from advertising on their sites and a conference that they ran. Most were from advertising. I’ve been saying for a long time that their model of free news supported [...] |
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