The Equity Kicker

Posted by mobile phone:Earlier this week the anti-Facebook furore hit such heights in the blogosphere that I wrote yesterday how they were becoming a case study in how not to do PR. (I’m on my Blackberry so no link.)

And then this morning I read in the FT that Mark Zuckerberg has apologised and [...]

Posted by mobile phone:MindArk the company behind space based virtual world Entropia announced yesterday that it plans to IPO next year – which will make it the first such company to list. Expect lots of corny headlines around the virtual world/real shares theme…

Entropia is free to play and makes money only from sales [...]

Posted by mobile phone:Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of video search company Blinkx yesterday told the FT of his plans to launch an online television service by March next year.

They are entering a crowded market, and their planned service is superficially similar to Joost and Babelgum, in that it will be free to the [...]

Posted by mobile phone: Every other day I get asked whether the fall out from the sub-prime crisis is affecting our business as venture capitalists. I always answer ‘No, not in any significant fashion. Crises like this always take a long time to filter through to our end of the market but I’m hopeful [...]

Posted by mobile phone: The following was printed in yesterday’s Sunday Times (I’m on my Blackberry, so no link):

“Nearly half of all adults in Britain have considered setting up their own business, but one in two of them are too scared of failure to do anything about it, according to a nationwide survey [...]

Posted by mobile phone:I`on my phone here because I can`t get the wifi at Aspen airport to work – so this will be a short one with no links.

I attended a panel session today with a guy who helps Nike and Starbucks, amongst others, with how they should approach marketing on social networks.

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Posted by mobile phone:Two parts to this post. First a recruitment tip from my new friend Henrick (veteran of three startups and now going for his fourth in visual search).

Whenever he interviews someone he looks for three solid pillars – work, family and an outside interest (usually physical – he plays hockey). If [...]

Posted by mobile phone:The top prize at the world`s most important advertising festival has been awarded to an online campaign. This shows the extent to which the internet has rocked the advertising world.

The winner at Cannes was also significant for being an FMCG brand campaign. The “Evolution” film for Dove, Unilever`s skincare brand [...]

Posted by mobile phone:I got some porn spam on Twitter yesterday. This could be the beginning of the end for the worlds latest favourite web service.

Posted by mobile phone:Americans bought more clothes than computers online last year, according to shop.org, reported in the FT this morning.

Regular readers know I love to hear how ecommerce is taking off, and this shows it is now part of the mainstream.

No surprise either. I made my biggest online clothes purchase last [...]