Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
I have often remarked on this blog that the fact many web companies are based on community has profound implications for their strategies. Firstly they have to put the long term interests of the community above all else (including in the case of Digg risks to short term survival), and secondly they are vulnerable [...]
Apple is now the number one music retailer in the US. From ars technica:
Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended [...]
Today the FT reported forecasts from Mintel that online retail spending in the UK and France will triple by 2012. That is a lot of growth, but maybe not that surprising when you consider the low base. Only 5% of retail spend was online in the UK last year and only 1.6% in [...]
VRM is CRM flipped on its head. Instead of vendors collecting data in systems like Siebel and managing customers the idea is that customers start storing and managing their own data and using it to manage suppliers.
At the moment this is little more than concept stage stuff, championed by Doc Searls and being talked about [...]
For some time I have been meaning to put my brain to work thinking about companies like Moo and Spreadshirt. These companies both have mixed online-offline business models.
For those that don’t know Moo lets you print “MiniCards” (and now “NoteCards”) which are like business cards with a twist. The twist is that as [...]
Yesterday the Sunday Times reported that online sales will hit £78bn a year by 2010 - doubling the webs share of retail sales to 20%.
I love reading news like that!
It is fantastic for everyone active round the start-up scene in this sector.
On a personal level it is particularly good news for our investment in affiliate [...]
