YouTube launches channel subscriptions
Google yesterday announced the launch of paid subscriptions for YouTube channels. So far this is only for a pilot group of around ....
A note on contrarian investing
Fred Wilson has a post up this morning title Return and Ridicule which talks about the dangers of herd investing. Fred quotes ....
Emotional e-commerce: The next wave of e-commerce
Jason Goldberg, Founder and CEO at Fab wrote an interesting post earlier this week titled The 3rd wave of e-commerce disruption: ....
Twitter ad revenues forecast to near $1B in 2014
I have been wondering lately how Twitter was getting on. Anecdotally people and companies seem to be getting more and more out ....
Bitcoin the future of money?
I've been watching the progress of Bitcoin with increasing interest for a year or two now and I'm a bit surprised I haven't written ....
Your fundraising strategy depends on whether your startup is hot
I spoke at a workshop this morning where most of the participants were CEOs and founders of early stage startups. We talked about ....
Will there be a Series A crunch in Europe?
The coming Series A crunch is perhaps the hottest topic of conversation in US tech circles at the moment and the numbers in the ....
London ranked best startup ecosystem in Europe
A new report out from the Startup Genome and Telefonica Digital ranks London as the seventh best startup ecosystem in the world. ....
Great to see Facebook succeeding on mobile
As you may have seen Facebook announced their Q3 results, revealing 14% of their ad revenues came from mobile. This was ahead ....
Musings on the iPhone 5, market maturity and open systems
I like open systems. Always have, and probably always will. It's partly because open-ness begets more innovation, partly because ....
Tips for building a minimum viable product
The developer behind Appbot – a service for app developers who want their app store reviews and features in their email ....
The evolution of an investment theme
IBM has just announced the acquisition of social recruitment business Kenexa for $1.3bn, the latest of a string of 'social' enterprise ....
Building habit forming consumer internet services
I've just spent an hour reading the excellent nirandfar blog by Stanford psychology and business lecturer Nir Eyal. The most ....