startups
Neelie Kroes: can the European Commission make Europe better for startups? Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/Neelie-Kroes.jpg] Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission Interviewed by Loic Le Meur Neelie Kroes has begun an exciting experience – the inventors of Angry Birds came over to tell them what was needed. She cancelled her next
How to close an online service gracefully Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/4de67896376bbfaa8b3e4adbe6850c31.jpg] The problem with today’s startup-centric web culture is that increasing numbers of services fail or get sold, and they close down, taking their content with them. DailyBooth [http://dailybooth.com/dashboard] was a hot site, particualry
Tech City's new Shields Paid Members Public
Interesting interview with Joanna Shields [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/9622748/Joanna-Shields-The-first-lady-of-Londons-Tech-City.html#] , ex-Facebook and now chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation: > “London has access to government through Westminster, you have the creative industries [and] you have the financial sector. You almost have
Le Web: Kevin Rose, Digging Painful Experience Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/roselane.jpg] Leo Laporte [http://friendfeed.com/leolaporte], Sarah Lane [http://www.sarahlane.com/] and Kevin Rose [http://kevinrose.com] are having something of a love-in on stage, reminiscing about their early days on TechTV [http://www.zdtv.com/
Kevin Systrom on Instagram's critical pivot to photos (#futureofmobile ) Paid Members Public
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom talked at the Future of Mobile conference in London - here are my notes.
Science journalism startups? Paid Members Public
Some [tips for reluctantly entrepreneurial science journalists](http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/tips-for-the-reluctantly-entrepreneurial-science-journalist/). It’s officially weird being quoted speaking at [a conference](http://www.wcsj2011.org/) you weren’t actually at.There’s a story here, and it’s not very flattering about me, but I’ll
How to take Innovation cash and waste it in five easy steps! Paid Members Public
 [Photo by Orin Zebest on Flickr, and used under a Creative Commons licence] [http://flic.kr/p/2ZmAZ] It’s Carnival time. But I’m not really in a
LeWeb: Startup Competition Finalists Paid Members Public
Liveblogging: this post will be updated through the course of the session, and will be prone to error, omission and misunderstanding. You are warned… 😉 **1. **Paper.li [http://paper.li/] I suspect most people reading this are familiar with this service. It turns links from your Twitter and Facebook accounts
