You’ve probably heard of the old expression: There’s no such thing as a free lunch! Well today that’s apparently no longer true. Earlier this year Wired’s Editor in Chief, Chris Anderson, wrote an article and then published the book called Free. (You may recall that I mentioned last weekend that Chris was presenting the idea at ycombinator’s… [Read more…]
October 29, 2009
A year after embarking on its MobCon strategy it looked like H3GA had left its earlier problems behind (see previous post). With the 3 Mobile brand it was successfully leveraging Mobile Content to build a new mobile phone business. Did this MobCon strategy deliver a welcome return on investment to Hutchison Telecoms’ long term shareholders ? The share… [Read more…]
October 28, 2009
One of the most common reasons a Venture Capitalist will pass on a deal is simply a matter of size. This doesn’t mean they think the idea is bad, the entrepeneur isn’t capable of delivering on the promise or the business will fail. They just don’t think the opportunity is big enough for them to get involved.… [Read more…]
October 27, 2009
Ten years ago web portals were the future of communication. Media rich content coupled with DIY media, search and a high value adding eCommerce marketplace was the vision. The idea was to lock in the audience by locking in the value. The plan (as it was so eloquently suggested in a recent comment on Techcrunch) was to build a “Wal-Mart” of the… [Read more…]
October 25, 2009
If you have heard of the game “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” then you’ll also know about an idea called the 6 Degrees of Separation. The idea that everybody in the world is connected by just a few steps. You know somebody, who knows somebody, who knows somebody… This time last year the ABC TV here… [Read more…]
October 24, 2009
One from the Archive (Circa 2001) – Updated to include Linksviewer If you’re in the market for Venture Capital then how do you choose the VC who will be the right one for you? After all, VC’s are just like potential customers. There are many investment styles in the VC community and no one size fits all. So you need… [Read more…]
October 24, 2009
One from the Archives (Circa 2001) I cannot stress enough the need to understand and know your audience when you prepare a pitch for a Venture Capitalists or Banker. A common mistake I see all the time is for entrepeneurs to pitch “Low Risk” to the VC’s and “Growth Opportunities” to Bankers.
October 23, 2009
When I first talked about the MobCon in my post “What is the MobCon?” I described the future of Mobile Content convergence as a cataclysmic doomsday scenario for all the market leaders who attempted to surf the chaotic waves of the information revolution. Japan was, and still is, the exception to this rule. In 1999, at the height… [Read more…]
October 22, 2009
Yesterday, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, Mary Meeker delivered her 15 minute “heads up” at the Web Summit 2.0 conference. Since its release this 68 page presentation has become one of the hotter properties in the blogsphere. In the presentation she suggests that the mobile web (i.e. the MobCon) will be 10 times bigger than the desktop web (i.e.… [Read more…]
October 22, 2009
One from the Archives (Circa 2001) Pitching to a VC should be easy. You’re thinking: Show me the money! The VC is thinking: Show me the money! You should be on the same wave length. Chances are you’re not.
October 30, 2009
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