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The Equity Kicker (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Following the closure of Blogfriends I am experimenting with new feedreaders and on the strong recommendation of Jason Ball I have been trying out Feeds2. I am struggling with the interface a little, but today came across an old post from OnStartups entitled Why you should (almost) never rewrite your software. The advice echoes my [...]
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
A comment was posted earlier in the week asking what events are relevant for new arrivals in London looking to get involved in the venture/start-up comunity. I was looking for the same in 2004 and posted a short list in...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
The number one thing that jumped out at me during the conference was Google's report that there are 50x more searches originating from the iPhone than any other mobile handset. Just to put that in perspective there are 4 million...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
I joined the Qualcomm Ventures Europe team earlier this month. Qualcomm, Inc (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced their European fund last May, in addition to Qualcomm Ventures in the US, China and India. I'll be focusing on European startups (both early and...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations. This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Like I do with every Apple iTunes new feature, I buy immediately to help promote the format. The introduction of Movie Rentals is no different... If you rent a movie through iTunes, a new source appears in iTunes "Rented Movies"....
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
I was given a Moshi Monster phone charm by our "secret santa" this year. I was pleased to see that Mind Candy (an Accel and Spark Ventures investment) was behind the charm and that it linked to a virtual pets...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
I posted last week about Google's recent foray into social search. My friends over at Mahalo launched Mahalo Social at LeWeb3 this morning, which adds the social graph to Mahalo's search results. The profile pages (see C.K.'s here) allow you...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
Nic posted yesterday about the social search space. I'd highlighted one of the companies he mentioned in an earlier post, Nsyght. I tend to follow the search space closely and have wondered out loud "why isn't google leveraging social input"...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 11/25/2007
If you've been missing system files (e.g. plist files) in your Spotlight results or Finder searches, you need to follow this tip over at TidBits: When you choose Other, you get a dialog listing all the kinds of metadata the...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 11/25/2007
I posted this shuffle tip ages ago: This one is straight from Apple's eNews March 10, 2005 newsletter: If you're after the highest quality tunes and regularly import songs at bit rates higher than 128 Kbps, iTunes offers you the...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
This cartoon from the Gaping Void pretty much sums up the evolution of my blog as well (minus the art, poetry and architecture):
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 11/08/2007
Email looks like it might be enjoying the end of its reign as the de facto killer app. The post and graph below from Hitwise really brings home where the web is going. For the first time last month, UK...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
The guys over at Nsyght have asked that I help spread the word about their "bookmark drive": Nsyght is building what we hope to be a new type of social search, a search that is directly driven and personalized by...
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Venture Capital (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
The Wall Street Journal has a good overview and recap of the negotiation process. Facebook is reported to have circa $150 million in revenue currently (and are launching their own advertising platform shortly). As a point of reference, Facebook's revenue...
