Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
If you haven’t heard about it already you should check out the Chinwag Digital Mission. Building on the success of WebMission08 earlier this year Chinwag in partnership with UKTI will be taking 20 25 UK companies to Web 2.0 Expo (Sept 16-19 in New York) and SXSW in (March 13-17 2009, I think in [...]
There are few things more annoying than typing a comment on someone’s blog and then getting rejected by the comment spam CAPTCHA - and I know that has been happening to some Safari users - e.g. Phil.
So I upgraded the CAPTCHA system I am using. I’m not sure if that will fix the problem [...]
Just a quick note to say I will be speaking at the Northern StartUp BUSINESS 8 event up in Manchester on July 15th.
It promises to be a fun evening with talks from Carl Allen of Gartner and Bert Navarrete of US based Internet Capital, in addition to mine.
Finally, hats off to Manoj Ranaweera who has [...]
Folks - you won’t be hearing much from me for the next three weeks, but just like the Gubernator - I’ll be back.
When I updated the look and feel of The Equity Kicker a couple of months ago I also updated the CAPTCHA I use to keep out comment spam. That has turned out to be a retrograde step, and I am suffering quite badly at the moment.
As a result I have been slow to approve [...]
As most of you will have heard by now AOK acquired our portfolio company buy.at this week. You can find the press release here.
Thanks to the many of you who have passed on your congratulations, and more importantly thank you to everyone who helped us along the way. The list is long and I’m [...]
Yesterday I completed a fairly major upgrade or the Wordpress software that runs TheEquityKicker.
First I’m pleased to report we passed 1,000 subscribers to TheEquityKicker last week - although it has dropped back to 996 today goddamit.
A big thanks to all of you that read, subscribe and comment.
And, I’m going off grid for a week or so to recharge the batteries. Makes me feel like Neo.
As Ivan has kindly pointed out I should have managed to blog this before Fred - but I guess better late than never. In my defence I will point out that I am seven time zones away and that in the last 36 hours I have had one canceled flight, been stuck in Denver overnight, [...]
I will be on a mobile web panel at the upcoming Essential Web conference from Library House. As ever it would be good to see you there.
The agenda looks good, with a range of interesting companies presenting and some good looking panels.
Richard Youngman, the organiser, tells me there will be a little something from Tim [...]
