“Doing a startup” isn’t easy. Reading tech blogs makes it looks easy. People with obscure ideas seem to raise inordinate amounts of funding with no actual product. Look at Color for pity’s sake (http://gigaom.com/2011/03/24/is-colors-team-really-worth-41m-idea-be-damned/) and they can’t even spell! You hear about how one day an app is blocked by Facebook and then the next [...]
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Karmr – social sharing and rewarding of positive actions
It is undeniable that social media is a hugely powerful thing. Be it the ability to share your life’s experiences with friends and family on Facebook, follow up-to-the-minute buzz on Twitter or create photo or video logs of your life on Instagram or Vine, social media is well and truly part of modern society. Is [...]
Karmr and startup metrics for fat pirates
As some of you may know, Karmr is a social network for actions. It works a lot like other social networks except that, in the same way as Instagram and Vine chose to focus on a specific media type, we chose to focus on a topic type – things that people did. There is an [...]
Introducing Bright Star Investment and Advisory
I founded and ran a digital agency for seven years. In that time I helped launch around 300 businesses and watched as some did magnificently and others did, well nothing. As time went on I gained a feel for the projects that would do well and those that wouldn’t. It is hard to say the [...]
How to build a successful start-up ecosystem (in the UK)
The UK is a massive force in the global economy and has produced an extraordinary amount of innovation. But, our little island could easily do more and learn a host of lessons to build on the business success we already have. Skills It all starts with skills. Like, right at the beginning. Digital work is [...]
I predict: #Nokia – #wp7 tanks. #Microsoft remember business customers and buy #rim. @selop fired, #samsung buy nokia for patents & #Meego
So that’s what I tweeted. Why? Well, lets break it down: #Nokia – #wp7 tanks Both Microsoft and Nokia are companies that have had huge success but both of them are struggling to compete in the smartphone arena with the iPhone and various Android handsets. Nokia spent a huge amount of time and money developing [...]
MS Internet acquired by drpgroup
The MS Internet Brand acquired by DRP Group So, lots of people have asked me to write a little bit about what has happened recently with the MS Internet brand being acquired by drpgroup, what it means to customers, what services will be offering, why we did it and so on. I’ll start with a bit [...]
The future of eCommerce – mCommerce?
I was lucky enough to be invited into the Magento Mobile introductory Webinar which was very interesting and very well put together. The content will shortly be available on the Magento website. So, what is this mobile commerce, or mCommerce to the cool kids, all about? Well for starters mCommerce sales already account for $2.5 billion per [...]
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