Thirty-ninth 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, [...]
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I think the next few years will see a massive increase in the consumer use of technology to monitor ourselves and maintain health and wellness. We are seeing the first products come to market now, and despite their clunkiness they are getting good use from early adopters. I’ve been using a service called Dailyburn [...] Last Friday was Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving – which is traditionally a big shopping day in the US as most people take the day off and many go shopping in preparation for Xmas. The following Monday, which is today, has recently become known as Cyber-Monday as it has become the biggest [...] I’ve had two conversations this week with people from entrepreneurial and operational backgrounds who are looking to become venture capitalists. They were smart people who I respect for their achievements and intellect, but I’m not sure their ideas about adding value to a portfolio of venture capital investments will work well in practice. Before [...] For some time now Groupon has been the company that everyone loves to hate, but despite that its valuation has kept on climbing. Until this week. Groupon’s share price has fallen 35% over the last three days, closing at $16.96 last night – some 15% lower than its IPO price of $20, and [...] I seem to be posting a lot of stats this week, and today it is that 50% of ecommerce visitors are logged into Facebook. This is data from a Sociable Labs study of 456 million visits to ecommerce sites. As Sociable Labs CEO Nisan Gabbay says: People look at Facebook’s active user count [...] Yelp filed it’s S-1 last week in preparation for an IPO next year, and yesterday Rocky Agrawal, wrote on Venturebeat about the company’s strengths and weaknesses as an investment prospect. Rocky describes himself as a fan of Yelp as a consumer (he was one of the early adopters in 2006 and used to email [...] I was going through my unread saves on Instapaper today and came to this interesting chart in a Techcrunch post from earlier this month. It shows people stay watching videos much longer on tablets and mobile than they do on desktops. Maybe not surprising in theory – but look at the extent of the [...] You are awash with information. You have billions of cells, and each one is constantly signalling highly nuanced chemical messages to its neighbours. Every scrap of tissue has a rich network of nerve connectors and hormonal receptors, and millions of their signals fly around your body all the time. All the traffic on the [...] |
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