Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen Explain Everything George August 26, 2014 Funding, Insights, Research This is a great two part podcast from the founders of famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (also known at A16Z). Around their firm they use the term “software eats the world” as a guide for how...
The top 10 apps in the US today? George August 25, 2014 Insights, Research While Facebook comes top of the heap with a healthy margin, it's clear the Google owns the biggest chunk of the top ten...
Uber is the Master of Aggressive Expansion George August 24, 2014 ecommerce, Uber There's really no doubt that Uber is killing it in terms of expansion. Check out the graphic below which illustrates the massive amount they achieved during the summer of 2014. Most companies would be...
Pirate Metrics for Startups George August 23, 2014 crm, Marketing, Uncategorized, user acquisition, user retention Thanks to Dave McClure from 500 Startups for this brilliant distillation of the key marketing metrics for pretty much any startup: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue Dig into a lot more...
Free Seed Round Investment Contracts George August 19, 2014 Legal So when it comes down to your Seed Round of funding, the lower that you can keep your legal costs the better. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't invest the time and effort in getting the very best legal work...
Most Active UK Technology Venture Capital Investors George August 11, 2014 Funding Of all VCs (Super Angel, VC, Corporate Venture Groups), the North West Fund (we aggregated all subsets of their funds for this analysis) was the most active in terms of unique UK-based tech companies invested...
How many photos have we uploaded on Facebook? How about 240 billion. Or 217 each. George July 31, 2014 Facebook, Snapchat As of late 2013 Facebook Users Are Uploading 350 Million Photos Each Day. Facebook revealed in a white paper that its users have uploaded more than 250 billion photos, and are...
All European Venture Capital and Angel Investors George July 23, 2014 Funding The Google Doc below is perhaps one of the most valuable for any European entrepreneur. It is a crowd-sourced list of the all European Venture Capital investors, as well as the Angel investors. Huge thanks...
10 Ways to Damage Your Startup George July 10, 2014 Funding Marc Andreessen just posted a great piece about the top 10 ways to damage your fast-growing tech startup. I can frankly say that I have personally been involved in at least a few of them. Here's my take on...
Google Founders – Interview with Larry and Sergey about the Future George July 4, 2014 Founder Interviews, Google, Insights, Management Vinod Khosla has had a long - very long - history with the Google co-founders. In fact he was the man who told them not to sell for $1.5 million when they had the chance (all those years ago). Some great...