25 November, 2007 – 16:32
Today’s idea is a simple one and that’s one of the reasons I find it very compelling.
Take a moment to think about how much of your PC’s software are downloaded applications and how much you bought in a store. Now think about the triple-A games market. Why is it that nearly everything comes in a [...]
16 November, 2007 – 20:23
So I am assuming that most of you have, at this stage, heard of Zillow.com, the next-generation real estate platform that was started by Rich Barton, founder of Expedia (while at MSFT) and venture partner at Benchmark. Bill Gurley, who is also on the boards of Linden (Second Life), NanoSolar (lots of press) and Red5 [...]
11 November, 2007 – 18:33
My first idea is building what I would probably call last.fm for web history, or alternatively a new take on me.dium or Alexa for Europe. Here’s the brief version:
Every time you open a URL, a client application residing on your machine sends the URL you visited to a central site. The application could be a [...]
In the spirit of the previous post, I am introducing not just a new regular feature of this blog, but a whole new focus. Basically, it’s “FREE ideas for your next startup from your friendly neighbourhood venture capitalist.” I call it 100 Ideas and the (101st, I guess) idea is the following:
I am [...]
Seedcamp had a great session at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin this week, with two panels - one with entrepreneurs and one with angel and venture investors. The latter included Christophe Maire, Lukasz Gadowski, Oliver Beste, Stefan Tirtey and - yey! - myself. The panels were moderated by Saul Klein and Reshma Sohoni, the indefatigable [...]
