Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
My friend Alexis pointed me this morning to an awesome Wired article by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail. I’ve seen him speak a couple of times now and following his obsession with the long tail he is now focused on the impact of ‘free’ - which I think is having some far [...]
I bought a new video camera on Amazon this weekend, and I also bought an extra battery and a couple of SD cards. So far so normal. The amazing thing to me is that I ended up buying each of these three items from different suppliers on Amazon’s market place, and the last of the [...]
Firstly - Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2008 brings you everything you want and more. For me, it is good to be back in the saddle.
Surfing Jay Deragon’s blog (seems to be down at time of writing) this morning I found the following quote from Marc Canter:
I believe that all [...]
This is a follow to my first post on this subject last week.
In that post I predicted that building web2.0 companies will start to become a more expensive business - driven by increased marketing and development spend.
In this follow up post I will look at what that might mean for the way companies are built and how VCs [...]
I have been thinking for some time that the extreme capital efficiency of many web2.0 businesses is a feature of where we are in the cycle and will start to come under pressure as the sector matures. So when Max Bleyleben - in his post on Web2.0 bubble debate in full swing pointed me to [...]
This is a very provisional post. It has been swirling around my head since I was talking to Saul Klein before Xmas. These thoughts are interesting to me as I think more about what it means to build social networks that do stuff, but they are new thoughts, and hence even more than normal I’d welcome your comments.
It seems to [...]
An oft stated theme of mine over the last few months is that the next generation of social networks will be about “doing stuff”. The first generation - MySpace, Bebo, Piczo et al are primarily about communication and identity, with a bit of music thrown in.
Nothing wrong with that - they have hit on a [...]
Fred Wilson wrote a great post about the increasing problems with page views as a metric for websites. His words have stimulated two post ideas for me. Next I will write about widgets and the new challenges for VCs investing in web2.0 companies, but today I want to stay on the topic of measurement.
Much has been written about [...]
What is it with us Brits and agencies?
They are everywhere in this country, much more so than in the US, for example.
I`ve been feeling it most in advertising through our investment in Buy.At, and estate agents have been figuring prominently in my thoughts about the property sector (of which more below and in a later [...]
After yesterday’s rather cerebral post these passages might help ground things a bit.
This sentence is probably redundant, but if not it is well overdue. At the highest level, when I talk about Enterprise 2.0 I am talking about enterprises using of social software, like blogs, wikis and social bookmarks.
These two sentences from the FastForward blog help explain what enterprise [...]
