Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Techmeme has recently become the site I most often check for news and gossip in the tech scene (particularly since I discovered the excellent Techmeme mini for mobile) - but it has always been a little unclear how it works. The following three excerpts from this post by Scoble give the best explanation I’ve [...]
I am reading Flat Earth News right now, a book in which Fleet Street journalist Nick Davies argues that much of what we read in our newspapers is simply copied unverified from the wire or from press releases. To go further, as per the sleeve notes Nick has:
found that the business of reporting the truth [...]
In the internet world content needs to be free. This is a theme I have addressed tangentially from a couple of different angles (e.g. Content atomisation and in-feed monetisation or Free ad-supported music coming closer to reality) but this Guardian piece from Vic Keegan takes it head on from a historical perspective (thanks to [...]
According to the Economist this week:
In the first half of this year the increase in consumer spending (in actual dollar terms) in China and India added more to global GDP growth than that in America.
It seems the term ‘emerging markets’ is increasingly a misnomer.
This is a follow on from yesterday’s post What is a blog these days? I thought these examples of great corporate blogs would be interesting.
In every case the company in question is using a blog to be more effective in their every day business of communicating with customers. For me the notion of an enhanced [...]
I have written before about how DRM might be more important in TV and film than it is in music (and maybe books). My argument was that musicians have multiple revenue sources, whereas TV and film producers only really have one. Musicians can be relaxed about piracy of their music in the [...]
AlarmClock Euro reports the following results of a Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) study:
As a result of the improved exit opportunities, some of the best-performing venture investments are now coming from the European Union. A study of 2,600 venture deals around the globe from the past three years found that, among those that returned more than [...]
I try not to plug Esprit or our portfolio too much on here but today I’ve cracked under pressure from my colleagues. We had five companies in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 - out last Sunday.
They were:
Axiom Systems OSS Software
Road Angel Vendor of “Road Safety Devices”
Fluency speech recognition aps
Packet Exchange global IP networking service
Lagan public sector CRM software
Well done to Affiliate [...]
Back in August MySpace started talking big about taking on YouTube - as I commented here.
Well now they have got ahead. And by some way - 20% more streams in the period. Yahoo! is also bigger than YT and about the same size as MySpace. All the data is US.
I first saw it in the [...]
Fred at A VC and Val at alarm:clock both posted on the recent Venturesource data which shows that in H106 $262m was invested in 49 web2.0 companies in the US.
Their perspectives differed - Val felt it wasn’t much out of a total of $13bn. Fred was ambivalent - web2.0 is a hot space after all. My [...]
