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I started reading Eric Ries‘s new book The Lean Startup last night and so far it is very, very good. Almost ‘can’t put it down’ good, or at least as close to that as you could expect from a business book. Most of you will be familiar with the lean startup methodology by [...] Thirty-eighth 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, [...] Only a small subset of companies should think about raising venture capital – those that genuinely have potential to exit for say $100m and can substantially increase their chances of getting there by accelerating investment. This is an important point as many companies that don’t meet these criteria waste time trying to raise venture. [...] Last Friday Techcrunch published a great post on the recent success of Tech City, the heart of London’s startup scene. According to data compiled by TechHub, and DueDil there are now 93 are true product companies in the region, up from 16 in 2008. The number of product startups across London is 211, so getting [...] Data just out shows that Q3 was a great quarter for M&A. As you can see from the charts below total deal value and average deal size were up quarter on quarter and year on year and deal volumes are also pretty robust. On top of that Groupon finally went public (pricing at $20, [...] Matias Duarte of Google wrote a long post yesterday about the new Roboto typeface they are using in Ice Cream Sandwich (aka Android 4.0). It is interesting more for what it says about how Google is trying to portray itself as for the details of how they went about making Roboto. Matias is [...] I love using the Amazon iPhone app and this weekend I tweeted about how good the British Airways app is, but what I don’t want is to have an app on my phone for every retailer I use. That would be a navigation nightmare – already I find myself swiping left and right through [...] I am sat in a hotel bar in Barcelona doing email for an hour before I catch a flight home from our annual strategy offsite and I’m feeling good about the two days we just spent here. We’ve been doing these offsites for a few years now in one form or another and this [...] Consumer services getting to their first million users often takes a bit of magic and fresh off their big financing at a $4bn valuation the guys at Dropbox have been describing what they did (from Techcrunch): Dropbox released a video on Digg during its private beta launch. In that video [they] team layered “easter [...] Startups accounted for all job creation in the US over the last 30 years, and there were 44 million created. That’s fantastic. I’ve heard similar stats in the UK too (although haven’t seen them in writing, pointers welcome). This is one of the reasons I come to work every day. It will be [...] |
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