Last night we had a little party in the London Planetarium to celebrate our fifth birthday. In typical DFJ Esprit style the event was a little different to the norm with a super-hero theme, a 4D film (and I mean 4D), and drinking well into the night. As part of the show we had [...]
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Twenty-seventh 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, [...] Peter Kafka has a post up today on AllThingsD titled Amazon starts an ad network powered by your data which has the following description of Amazon’s latest innovation: The e-commerce giant has started what is effectively an ad network*, where it buys Web advertising inventory and resells it to marketers at a premium. It [...] I read Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan about three years ago and loved it for the way he calls out how many people mis-understand risk. He argues persuasively that the natural human condition is to see predictability where there is none and as a result many of us give away our chance of a [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-19 http://goo.gl/fb/sn5F4 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-19 http://goo.gl/fb/TW0hN # Eight interesting health oriented startups http://goo.gl/fb/KiXEp # Mobile is passing the PC for internet access http://goo.gl/fb/IN6kF # Talking numbers: Google just became the first company to pass 1bn uniques per month http://on.wsj.com/lP2rKm # When negotiating it pays to ask [...] According to research out by Asymco Apple has just about enough cash to buy Nokia, RIM, HTC, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. That is an incredible statistic and testimony to the awesome success that Apple has had with its iPod, iPhone and iPad product ranges. Regular readers will know that I am not a [...] I came across two very interesting posts today in which execs at highly rated marketing software company Hubspot write glowingly about two of their investors, Sequoia Capital and Google Ventures. One post is about why Sequoia is such a successful VC, and the other asks the questions Will Google Ventures disrupt venture capital? In [...] This last couple of months have been particularly intense for me in large part because a number of deals I was working on all came to a head at the same time. As a result I have spent a lot of time locked in negotiations and over and over again I’ve been struck by [...] Mobile analytics firm Flurry released a report today with the chart below which shows time spent on mobile apps is a) growing very vast year on year (88%) and b) we now spend more time on mobile apps than browsing the web (see Techcrunch for more details). This news comes three weeks after [...] For a while now I’ve been predicting that we will see a wave of consumer oriented health startups at some point over the next five years. At this stage it is difficult to say how big, but I think it will be pretty big as the drivers are powerful. On the one hand you [...] |
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