I gave a talk a few weeks back in Bilbao on entrepreneurship- I focused on a few key areas that startups/entrepreneurs should keep in mind. It was only a 20 minute talk, but there were 7 key areas I focused on. I'll be turning those into a series of posts over the coming weeks. Stay

If you're in the Bay Area for the Web 2.0 Expo, here's a list (which has a public Google Calendar as well) of updated, collected, filtered, processed, pre-selected, recommended expo-related events. Enjoy.

One of the areas I've been spending a lot of time looking at is All Things Geo. Three headlines caught my eye today: Eye-fi Explore -auto geotags your photos before uploading automagically via wifi. Sony Ericsson- have patented geotagging songs...

It's not everyday that my hometown shows up in VentureSource, so I had to repost this: SMARTSYNCH (JACKSON, MS) RAISES $20 MILLION IN SERIES E?--- Industry: Vertical Market Applications Software ---? Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment led a $20 million...

Library House's newsletter yesterday (free registration req'd) highlighted an article by David Storey in the FT- making the case that there is no correlation between an experienced entrepreneur/management team and a company's success. Storey summarises this belief [that failure is...

Apple announced today that iTunes downloads have now topped 5 billion. I posted back in January 2007 that iTunes had hit 2 billion purchases... I note we're now comparing downloads with purchases- which may or most likely may not- be...

If chipsets are your thing, then feast your eyes on the latest iPhone teardown: It's interesting that Apple have chosen to go with so many components - making the iPhone larger than it could have been if they had used...

Wow, talk about music news this week. Muxtape got its wrist slapped by the RIAA... ...but there are new music start ups to pick up where Muxtape left off (if it's in fact dead, and not a publicity stunt). Some...

Don't say you weren't warned: It's back.... VC Doom and Gloom. According to Venture Source and the NYT, European Venture has hit it's lowest point since 2000. Investment dollars declined by 35% to $1.3 billion and companies receiving investment were...

My beta invite for Dropbox (funded by Y Combinator) arrived this weekend - and my initial impression is very positive. I've migrated my home mac use to a client/server (MacBook Pro/iMac) set up- with my iMac doing most of the...

Congratulations to the Spotify team- they've launched their public beta today allowing anyone to listen to music over the web, in what I think could be the next great music app. I've been lucky enough (thanks Daniel!) to be one...

I picked up the May copy of Wired's UK edition this week. I've always preferred the US version since I'm not in the US- it keeps me up to speed on what's happening there- but it hit me how powerful...

Hi there!  No, I'm not dead- this blog is live… I've just been too busy lately to blog. So, to get me started blogging again, I thought I would share a few apps that I'm using regularly these days: Sleep Cycle- actually monitors your sleep pattern by using the accelerometer in your iPhone. $0.99 to see

Hi there! No, I'm not dead- this blog is live... I've just been too busy lately to blog. So, to get me started blogging again, I thought I would share a few apps that I'm using regularly these days: Sleep...

There's a fresh article in this month's UK Wired- "Watches are the ultimate proof that we are not rational", which applies directly to me (and an increasing number of my VC friends.) It reminded me of a discussion that happened during my MBA – we were asked to envision what "the watch of the future"

There's a fresh article in this month's UK Wired- "Watches are the ultimate proof that we are not rational", which applies directly to me (and an increasing number of my VC friends.) It reminded me of a discussion that happened...

Last month I posted suggesting that Venture might be back… The post below from trueventures makes a strong case, that yes, indeed, Venture is back. http://www.trueventures.com/blog/2009/12/02/venture-is-back-baby/ Also, I was at Noah earlier in the month; company after company spewed out fantastic stats: Betfair- online betting, 6.5m tra...

I'm sure everyone has been seeing what's happened in the US Equity markets- NASDAQ is up 30%+ YTD, with many stocks like Apple showing 131% gains this year. Strong earnings reports mean public companies have cash to deploy… I attended GP Bullhound's Mobile Sector Breakfast two weeks ago, where Manish reported some positive liquidi...

I'm sure everyone has been seeing what's happened in the US Equity markets- NASDAQ is up 30%+ YTD, with many stocks like Apple showing 131% gains this year. Strong earnings reports mean public companies have cash to deploy... I attended...

Hussein Kanji has organized a venture capital and entrepreneurship lecture series starting in October, which will be held at London Business School. Current speakers announced are: Robin Klein, The Accelerator Group, Thursday Oct 1 Stan Bowland, Icera, Thursday Nov 5...

It's that time of year, and I'm heading off into turkey, present and (hopefully) gadget land for a few weeks. No real posts (unless total boredom sets in) until 2009. Happy Holidays everyone! (Picture credit: gun show)

Yes, it's another bike post on my blog. I'm turning into a regular gear-head. The WSJ has a feature on cycling in London- approximately 500,000 trips are made via bicycle every day in London. Maybe the credit crunch is having...

I couldn't believe my eyes this morning when I ran a search on Google. If you are signed in, you can now promote results as well as leave comments. I had asked a Googler last year when they were going...

I've blogged about my friends at Feeds 2.0 many times over the past few years; I've followed the Netflix prize out of interest since it was covered in Wired back in 2007, mainly because I was rooting for the Feeds 2.0 team… For those of you who may not spend your weekends and evenings reading

Every year I start off with a retrospective of what's just happened over the past 12 months. I guess the difference this year is that everyone knows 2008 was simply awful across the board... Icon Corporate Finance has provided the...

I've been a judge for the VCIC competition held at London Business School for the past few years. The school is actively looking for entrepreneurs willing to pitch to a room a VCs and MBAs learning to be VCs. The...

Step 1. Get Spotify Step 2. Sign up for an account at last.fm Step 3. Enable scrobbling inside the prefs pane in Spotify Step 4. Check this site to find new artists based on your las.fm recommendations http://lutt.se/lastfm+spotify+new/ Step 5....

Today we announced the Qualcomm Ventures Business Plan Competion. It's open to startups in the US, Europe, China and India. Semi-finalists from each region will win $100k, and then compete for a further $150k at the Qualcomm Ventures CEO Summit...

"Opera today (well, last week. I've been a little slow getting this post out) unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly

Today we announced the Qualcomm Ventures Business Plan Competion.  It's open to startups in the US, Europe, China and India. Semi-finalists from each region will win $100k, and then compete for a further $150k at the Qualcomm Ventures CEO Summit in November. We're looking for companies that impact the wireless space in the followi...

Just in case you thought innovation was dead (or maybe non-existent) in Europe, the guys over at Mashable have pulled together a short list of European startups. If you missed the The Next Web conference and are interested in monitoring the space, The Next Web is a great resource (with pretty swell twitter too).

I've been blogging about the search space for a couple of years, and this has to be one of the most promising developments I've seen: Wolfram Alpha.  While Nova Spivak has an excellent overview of what Wolfram Alpha is trying to achieve, this will give you an idea: Where Google is a system for FINDING

I've been a judge for the VCIC competition held at London Business School for the past few years. The school is actively looking for entrepreneurs willing to pitch to a room a VCs and MBAs learning to be VCs. The venture funds present (previously) were Accel, Atlas, Amadeus, Balderton, Doughty Hanson, et al plus corporates

It's that time of year, and I'm heading off into turkey, present and (hopefully) gadget land for a few weeks. No real posts (unless total boredom sets in) until 2009. Happy Holidays everyone! (Picture credit: gun show)