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One of the VCs on a panel yesterday here at Techcrunch Disrupt said that “The days of the generalist investment banker or lawyer VC are over.” a statement I couldn’t agree more with. There are two dimensions to the focus, one we are all familiar with, and one that is perhaps a bit newer. [...] In January 2010 when I started getting serious about my health and staying young for longer losing weight was easily the most important objective. As you can almost see from the chart below at that point my weight was 77.8kg and 24.6% of that was fat (rather than muscle or bone). I started recording [...] I’m currently reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science. I’m finding it an ok read, although interesting for reasons other than those I expected. I was hoping his myth-busting might help change my diet or supplement regime, but the stuff he targets is actually pretty old hat. However, on the plus side he has a lot [...] I have just been looking at VentureWire’s recently unveiled FastTech50 list of innovative startups which they have put together ahead of their conference in November. The list was pulled together after reviewing ‘hundreds of startups in the VentureWire database’ and ‘about 2,000 nominations on Twitter’, and with the help of an advisory panel which [...] At the end of August I noted with surprise that three midsize tech companies had filed to go public in the US, and said that there success in making the next step to actually listing would tell us a lot about the state of the market. In the last couple of days we have [...] Thirty second 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 [...] Over the weekend I read a post by Ed Bott about the the decline of TiVo and Windows Media Center which had the following Google Trends chart: I think this shows conclusively that since around 2008 consumer interest in media services based around local storage – Media Center and Tivo have waned whilst [...] Regular readers will know that I believe the price of content, including software, is trending towards the marginal cost of delivery, which is zero (note that doesn’t mean it will necessarily reach zero). Innovative companies are responding with innovative pricing models, of which ‘freemium’ is perhaps the most common. This is now a pretty [...] When Google surprised everyone and bought Motorola’s device business for $12.5bn back in August there was a lot of speculation as to their motives, but the consensus seemed to be that the portfolio of 17,000 patents was the principle attraction. It struck me as kind of crazy that we have a world where Google [...] Nicholas Lovell just put up a post answering the question Should I seek a strategic investor? It is the latest in our series of 50 Questions you should ask before raising venture capital. His advice is to be careful… |
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