In the last hour I heard that Facebook has bought Instagram for $1billion dollars. This is literally double the valuation that was set for Instagram by VC investors at the end of last week, who put in $50 million at a valuation of $500million! At the last count, Instagram had 30 million users. It recently [...]
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£200,000 Startup Competition
March 7, 2012
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Thanks to Orange, UK entrepreneurs have a new chance to win ~£200,000 worth of help – including some cash investment – to get their business off the ground and on to a flying start. The prize, valued at £200,000, includes advice and mentoring, marketing consultancy, legal advice, mobile devices and plans from Orange as well as [...]
Read moreWho Will Save Nokia?
January 20, 2012
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So far, Nokia’s comeback – where they bet everything on the Windows Phone operating system – has been an unmitigated disaster: – In late 2011 they launched their Lumia 800 smartphone, which was immediately out-sold 100 to 1 by the Samsung Galaxy S2 in the UK … a country known to traditionally love Nokia – [...]
Read moreGoogle’s Moat
November 16, 2011
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Google’s share price has underperformed in recent years. Despite growing strongly, even through the credit crisis, investors appear to have misunderstood Google’s strategy and feared that competitors may steal a march on the search engine giant. Investors instead fell in love with Facebook and Apple, the latter probably completely justified given its enormous profitability. Many [...]
Read moreHow to Fix Greece
October 9, 2011
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It occurred to me recently that there is a very simple solution to the Greek debt & subsequent Eurozone crisis which should have been tried before forcing a controlled default and recapitalising the EU banks (as is currently being discussed by EU leaders). It is now widely agreed that politicians in the Eurozone have been [...]
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