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Yesterday morning I did an interview for Bloomberg TV. I’ve shared my thoughts on CNBC before, but this was my first time on TV with make up, and that somehow makes it more proper, don’t you think? The piece is very short but they referenced The Equity Kicker twice. Without doubt they were interested [...] Despite recent commentary to the contrary it seems very clear to me that both Google+ and Facebook are making great progress. (For negative commentary see Google+ … ‘Worse than a ghost town’ on MediaShift and At last, we’re logging back on to the real world from our old friends at the Daily Mail.) The [...] We first started to get interested in 3D printing a year or so back, and at that I played with a number of the services on the market, but the experience wasn’t easy, and 3D printers in the home still seemed some way off. Both those things are now changing fast. The usability challenge [...] If you have been anywhere near the internet over the last week or two you will have noticed the big changes coming out of Facebook. First they had smart lists, and then over the last couple of days at their f8 conference they have announced a slew of other initiatives, including deep integration with [...] I have just started reading The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida. It was first published in 2002, making it a pretty old book by the standards of today’s fast changing world, but the central idea is still powerful today, and it is new to me. Having read the title [...] Thirty third 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 [...] I have seen two comments in the last couple of days making the point that whilst content companies of all flavours are happy for the traffic they get from Facebook they are increasingly conscious that time spent on Facebook is time not spent on their own properties, and hence generating ad revenues for Facebook [...] Over the weekend I saw the Smirnoff ad below on TV (or at least one very similar to it). It is remarkable because it is 100% focused on promoting engagement with the Smirnoff brand rather than selling the underlying products, and because the call to action is to go to their Facebook page and [...] Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures has a thoughtful post up today about VCs adding value to their portfolio companies. Firstly he talks about the importance for a VC to know in their own minds whether they are a firm that seeks to make money by clever stock picking alone, or through a combination of [...] Simple descriptions which capture the essence of complex concepts and objects are powerful tools for self analysis and monitoring. They work particularly well within teams of people because they are easy to remember and refer back to. A long-time favourite of mine in the startup world is Patrick Dunne’s mantra that the role of [...] |
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