Finally, this industry gets its own t-shirts site. A hoax, of course, unless you have $100 to blow on some fine American Apparel cotton.
As a side note, it’s very weird working in a profession where you are both constantly courted as well as deeply reviled by some people, most often due to ignorance of what [...]
Subaru, who make some of the finest 4WDs in the world, have produced some marketing gold: Subaru DC Mountain Lab 1.5. This is basically Will It Blend for cars.
The old revenue generation model was sell product, take out ads, sell more product and then rinse, repeat. But in a world cluttered with terrible advertising, the [...]
Plugg is a great new one day conference focused on Web 2.0. Excellent speakers, including Lisa Sounio, Tom Raftery, Gerd Leonhard.
Yours truly will be doing a 30 minute pres on the future of gaming from a European, online and venture capital perspective. If you are an entrepreneur and want to start an online gaming [...]
Seatwave, a company where I am a board observer together with the Atlas board member Sonali de Rycker, has just raised a $25M round led by Fidelity and joined by new investor Holtzbrinck. All other existing investors, including Mangrove, Oliver Jung and of course Atlas also joined the round.
Seatwave even likes kids drawing about [...]
Little venture capital insight of the day. Drumroll, plx. The fastest ways of burning cash in a startup are:
1. Buying traffic for a new dotcom (read Fred Wilson on usage traction as a prerequisite for investment)
2. Scaling the sales organization without having scaled the sales process (read Max Bleyleben and Andy Blackstone)
3. “Field of Dreams” [...]
And here's some photo goodness in case you need to find me in a crowd:
I look almost as tired in that as Jim Breyer in his. I must be doing something right :)