Posted by Alex Bellinger on 15th August 2008.
Not so long ago I interviewed Rachel Elnaugh of Dragon’s Den fame and made the point in passing that many of the entrepreneurs on the show had lots of kids. Rachel herself has five and other Dragons haven’t been shy when it comes to pro-creation: Duncan Bannatyne (6), Theo Paphitis (5) and Peter Jones (5).
What [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 4th August 2008.
I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a slide show of web pages. Does that sound boring? I’m not sure it is.
Marjolein Hoekstra in the Netherlands (she calls herself CleverClogs for good reason) alerted me to one of the services, called Diigo. It started out in 2005 [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 29th July 2008.
I love a good Web 2.0 startup, but what’s always captured my imagination are businesses that use the tools and concepts of the social web to disrupt or enhance traditional sectors.
That’s why I wanted to interview Max Wittrock one of the co-founders of German breakfast cereal startup mymuesli.com, which lets you, the breakfast going public, [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 25th June 2008.
At a recent London dinner for geeks there was a sharp intake of breath and a flurry of questioning hands raised when Richard Moross, ceo of web 2.0 darlings MOO.com, revealed his company made a 70% margin on its mini-cards.
But as Moross was rightly keen to point out, MOO has had a fully functioning business [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 9th June 2008.
A visit with FaceTime introduced me to the term ‘greynet’. Since it’s been knocking around for donkey’s years, I should have known about it. But I didn’t. And so, I figured, nor would you. (Skip this blog if you’re up to speed on the subject and protected from greynet attacks.)
A greynet is a network-enabled application [...]
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