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Facebook is winning the identity war 23 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
I know a lot of people won’t be happy to hear this, but new data out from Facebook suggest they are becoming the dominant provider of online identity. The numbers are a little hard to interpret but my...
Leading the next revolution in ecommerce 22 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
We have been thinking a lot about our sector focus recently and are coming to the conclusion that there is a huge opportunity for us to lead the next revolution in ecommerce. Currently 5-10% of sales ...
Tiny lab-grown heart beats on its own 21 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Scientists in the University of Pittsburgh have grown a tiny heart that beats on its own. The researchers took a mouse heart from which everything had been removed but the basic structure and laid on...
Smart watches and wearable computing 20 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Samsung are rumoured to be announcing their Galaxy Gear smartwatch on September 4th and Apple is widely expected to release an iWatch within the next year. So smart watches are hot. But will they fl...
LinkedIn and Facebook – two very different approaches to going public 19 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
I just read How LinkedIn became a Wall Street juggernaut on Techcrunch. The article lists four things, three of which relate to being a great company (multiple growth vectors, a product that gets bett...
Tech startups create the most jobs 16 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
One of the things I like about working in the startup ecosystem is that as a group we make a significant contribution to the economy. The most obvious manifestation of that is in job creation so I was...
Thoughts on quant approaches to early stage investing 15 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
‘Quant VC’ is a hot topic at the moment. Techcrunch and VCs have been writing about it, VC funds have been hiring data scientists, and Kleiner Perkins has taken the step of branding its proprietary da...
Untitled 14 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
This morning everyone has been retweeting Slava Akhmechet’s 57 Startup Lessons. It’s a great list (although there are a couple of lessons I don’t agree with), but if you don’t have time to read throug...
Success metrics for new startups 13 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
This article is a good reminder of how to set metrics at startups. The choice of metric will vary depending on the business but this piece of advice is universal: My number one tip is to start simple...
The difference between brains and computers 12 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
I believe that within my lifetime processors will get powerful enough and software good enough that we will see computers that emulate human brains and pass the Turing Test (for more detail see my ear...
