Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
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 to a [...]
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 definition they were all [...]
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 channels [...]
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 for predictability, how that [...]
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 service and [...]
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 BT - so whilst [...]
This deal has been reported on in detail on GigaOM and by Jason Ball, but in summary MySpace has cut a deal with a group of independent music labels and legal peer to peer download service Snocap to sell DRM free MP3s. A neat feature of the deal is that individual users can put a line of [...]
According to data just out from the European Venture Capital Association Euro venture returns are looking like they might soon be category leading. By Euro I mean UK and Europe.
I posted back in October about how European Venture is starting to hold its own. In that post I cited a Silicon Valley Bank study which showed that our top funds are doing as [...]
The strength of the internet advertising market is well documented (The Internet Advertising Bureau puts the UK online ad market at just shy of £1bn for H106 and growing at 40%). It is rare to see a large market with this sort of growth, and the good news is that it has still got a long [...]
By broadband television I mean TV delivered into the home via the broadband pipe. It might be watched on the big set in the living room, on an iPod, on a laptop, or just about anywhere but it comes into the house via the internet.
The thoughts below are about open services like The Venice Project [...]
