The Equity Kicker

At the BVCA/Real Deals awards dinner last night we were pleased and honoured to receive the award for Venture Capital Deal of the Year for our investment in buy.at, which was acquired by AOL for $125m last year. 
Thanks go out to the organisers and judges but espescially to the team that got us there.  [...]

I have added some Adsense links to the top of my left sidebar as a small experiment.  Any proceeds raised will go to CARIS a local charity in Islington, London which runs a homeless nightshelter, amongst other things.
Please let me know if this offends.

Following the comments on my last post I’m returning to Disqus to host your comments.  Unfortunately some of your recent contributions aren’t showing up on the site right now, but I hope that will be fixed shortly.
Thanks for your patience, and sorry for messing around with what was an ok system.  All I’ve succeeded in [...]

As you may have noticed I have been playing around with different comments systems over the last couple of weeks.  I have just changed again from IntenseDebate to JS-Kit as Intense Debate was not working all that well.  Having just installed it I’m not wild about the way JS-Kit appears on the site, but it [...]

Stephen Kinsella and Evert Bopp are organising a workshop for people interested in starting their own business.  It will be in Kemmy Business School, Limerick.
UPDATE – they have a website up for the workshop here.
The world needs more entrepreneurs and the better trained they are the better it will be for all of us!
Read more [...]

This is my last day in the office before the holidays and I wanted to sign off by saying Happy Christmas, and thank you for taking the time to read me and espescially for taking the time to comment.  Without the comments this blog would be nothing.
I hope you all have a great break.

If there are any problems please let me know.  I’ve left a test comment and it seems to be working fine.
For a short while existing comments are not visible on the site – that should change once they are imported to Disqus.  Please bear with me.

Applications for the next Digital Missio are now open.  Judging by everything I’ve heard the last one was a success – so I imagine this one will be too.
It is described on their website thus:
The Digital Mission to South by South West interactive (13-17 March 2009) is a trade mission for 40 of the UK’s [...]

Last Weds I invited questions for panelists at the Library House Mediatech conference next week with the offer of free tickets for the two best respondents.
There were lots of good responses, and when it came to judging which was the best I was a little stumped as to what should be the basis of my [...]

UPDATE: CONTEST CLOSED
The kind folks at Library House have offered readers of TheEquityKicker two free tickets to their upcoming Essential Mediatech conference on November 11th.
There are 4 panels during the day:

Web startups in Europe – Bindi Karia, Nadim Saad, Stefan Menden,
William Tunstall-Pedoe, Nikolaj Nyholm,
Marc Samwer
All about games – Ed Bartlett,
Sebastien de Halleux,
Andy Moseby, Timo Soininen,
Matt [...]