Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
That is a feeling I have had for sometime and is re-enforced by the recent results from FT.com.
This is from PaidContent:
But, despite FT.com unveiling a new access model in November (giving five articles free per month, and a further 30 for those who register), we’re still seeing a plateau in paying subscribers. Results said subscriber [...]
Newspaper companies are often seen as soon-to-be-extinct relics of a bygone age, but at least two of them have read the tea leaves correctly, and are embracing the new order. I am thinking of the Guardian and the New York Times.
I’m writing this because of two bits of news I just read.
Firstly, the latest [...]
Last week Jeff Nolan wrote a post entitled Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” where he bemoans the lack of true innovation and the state of venture capital generally. He is talking about Silicon Valley, but what he writes applies equally over here in Europe.
He correctly observes that a lot of money is still [...]
Last week Chris Anderson of Wired and Long Tail fame posted a preview of his new book on free as a business model and I wrote a post summing up his argument (which I largely agree with) and calling for innovation in business models - we will all still need to find ways to make [...]
