The Friday before last I was on an investor panel at the Like Minds conference down in Exeter. As I’ve mentioned before I do these panels in the hope of making the process of raising money more widely understood and therefore easily accessible, thereby encouraging more entrepreneurs to start companies. You can find a [...]
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Mary Meeker gave her now customary data rich presentation on the state of the internet to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco earlier this week. She remains optimistic that we are headed into a wave of innovation and value creation driven by mobile, social and local. I’ve picked out four of her charts [...] Thirty-sixth 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 week Nicholas Lovell wrote another post in our series of 50 Questions you should ask before raising venture capital. This time he answers the question What should I try to achieve in the first meeting? The piece of advice I most appreciated is not to go “all testosterone-fuelled sales maestro” and try [...] I started life as a strategy consultant, which has left me with an appreciation for the power of letting strategy drive your business, but also an appreciation of how difficult that can be to do well. Len Jordan from Madrona Venture Group has a guest post up on Techcrunch which describes a couple of [...] Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures put up an interesting post on Friday about the importance of staying focused on your business and not getting distracted by the overall macro-economic picture or whether we are in a bubble or not. I agree with this up to a point. Roger titled the post ‘Know thyself’ and [...] Leading US TV streaming site Hulu has been trying to sell itself for much of this year, but is no longer for sale. The company announced yesterday that the sale process was terminated and now the owners, which crucially include content owners News Corp, Disney and Comcast, will keep the site independent. According to [...] Crowdsourcing and third party monetisation (aka the trend to ‘free’) are a couple of my favourite themes and Foldit combines them both to help solve biology problems that have applications in cancer, HIV and Alzheimers. Brilliant. Foldit have released a puzzle game in which the solutions that the players come up with are real [...] As I’ve said many times I think the startup ecosystem here in Europe is getting stronger all the time. One of the reasons for that is that the entrepreneurs are getting better. That is something I observe on a daily basis at the companies we see. When I’m asked to explain why entrepreneurs are [...] |
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