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When people ask me about the likely development of the venture capital industry I always answer that it is governed by two somewhat independent cycles. The first is the macro-economic cycle. When the overall economy is performing poorly it is harder for startups to grow their businesses and create value and those that [...] William Quigley, managing director at Clearstone Venture Partners has a guest post up on Techcrunch this morning arguing that The next ten years will be great for founders and VCs. He gives three reasons: Companies are going public at much higher valuations (Google $40bn, VMWare $12bn, Facebook forecast say $70bn, compared with Cisco [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01 http://goo.gl/fb/3LdEY # "Facebook earnings to top $2 billion in 2011" – http://bit.ly/kpyYx3 – shared from @Taptu # interesting post from @fredwilson on first time vs serial entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/lvAmFG # Avoid the human temptation of focusing too much on avoiding the downside http://goo.gl/fb/2acUk # @jobsworth did you hear back [...] The accelerating pace of change is something I go on about a lot on this blog and more generally – I think it is one of the most important things to understand on a societal level and also a huge driver of value from large corporations to startups (startups are better at dealing with [...] There have been a couple of reports on developments in the smartphone world that I’ve been meaning to blog for a few days now. These are important as we all assess the likelihood of a sustained tech boom driven by mobile computing, likely developments in mobile advertising and finally how the Android vs iOS [...] Twenty-first 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, [...] Last Wednesday Nicholas Lovell answered the question What makes a good investor?, the latest in our series of 50 Questions you should ask before raising venture capital. In the post he walks through the importance of personal rapport, commitment from the fund/investing partner, domain knowledge, and the strength of the fund. If you [...] I’m halfway through a book called Nudge which is about the shortcuts we all employ to be able to make decisions quickly without needing to understand all the details. As the authors point out, as the world gets more complicated and the pace of change accelerates our need to rely on these shortcuts [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-24 http://goo.gl/fb/mTS3c # If you read one book about negotiating… http://goo.gl/fb/BG6LE # I’m starting to think network operators should be allowed to charge content owners for… http://goo.gl/fb/o4XOV # Playing with the new #Taptu iPad app. It looks good, runs fast and has comprehensive coverage. I love it and I [...] |
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