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Fred Wilson wrote a post on Sunday with the following advice for entrepreneurs raising money: raise 12-18 months of cash each time you raise money. Less than a year is too little. You’ll be raising money again before you know it. Longer than 18 months means you may well be sitting on cash that [...] Thanks everyone who chipped in with suggestions for the talk I’m giving to a CASS Business School MBA class in a couple of hours. One of the reasons I write this blog is to help shed some light on the often murky world of venture capital and it has been helpful to hear which [...] Om Malik has a great post up today on GigaOM reporting on Joost’s announcement that it will now offer a white-label video hosting platform whilst at the same time letting some people go and closing its Netherlands office. The reason for this shift in strategy is clear in the chart below – they haven’t [...] In a development that is perhaps not too surprising Joost and Babelgum are struggling with content acquisition. Their responses are quite different though. Babelgum has created a €10m commissioning fund for original content and made it’s first investment, whilst Joost is retrenching from it’s global ambitions to focus on the US. I have talked [...]
If you follow the Seedcamp Blog you will know that applications to participate in startup-school-cum-incubator-cum-fund’ Seedcamp closed twelve days ago and yesterday was Judges Day where the 268 applications was whittled down to the 20 that will be invited to Seedcamp week. The number of great companies was awesome to see. By [...] In the hard copy March issue of SportBusiness International there is an article about SecondsOut.com – a site for boxing fans. They aggregate a global audience for second tier boxing matches which they stream on their site, charging on a pay per view basis. This is the internet at it’s best – national TV [...]
I was reading JP’s post from a week or two ago Agile contracts versus covenants and was reminded of the challenges of dealing with uncertainty. He wrote: A short while ago I was musing over a classic problem to do with Agile [by which he means agile software development]: the traditional human desire [...] Interesting reading on Mashable earlier today that BitTorrent is launching a video store on Monday. Not surprising I guess since P2P is becoming the transport protocol of choice for broadband TV, with Joost and Bablegum both on this model. All the high profile IPTV and broadband TV plays out there at the moment combine [...]
It was interesting to read on Vecosys yesterday the rumour that BT is struggling technically with it’s IPTV play BT Vision. The problem it seems is Microsoft’s IPTV platform which isn’t “performing or scaling”. I have heard separately that BT has been talking with alternative PCTV platform Joost and I trust Sam and his links to [...] |
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