Laurence on Mar 20 2010 | Filed under: Ideas
“Praise be to heros neptune, the titanic sails at dawn, everybody’s shouting.. which side are you on.” BD
So I’ve been wowed once again by Wired magazine, which seems to have summed up some recent conversations with quite delicious serendipity.
This post relates to both thinking styles and to a new branch of exciting mathematics called “compressed [...]
Laurence on Mar 05 2010 | Filed under: Ideas
“.. the only sound that’s left, after the ambulances go, is Cinderella sweeping up on desolation row.” B.D.
I have just spent three hours in deepest darkest south London, Tulse Hill no less. The trip there was akin to a trip through the favela’ with a full wallet – even the taxi driver was nervous. What’s [...]
Laurence on Feb 14 2010 | Filed under: Ideas
musings on emerging opportunity for young technology companies to make a splash in the domain of “internet-scale bus”, and mash hash.
Laurence on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
Some London folks attended a very cool event hosted by BLN and TaylorWessing on 3rd Dec 2009 to network and discuss tech venture in Europe. There I had a fascinating interchange with David Sinclair of Imense and Camtology about “Concept Search”. I had a simple request – “please could you build me a technology where [...]
Laurence on Apr 21 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
I emerged.. but scathed….. from an ignorance session where Ned Wakeman and I tried to discuss web3-4 “fractal semantic data integration, auto-ontology generation” with too few facts to share between us. it came to this:
To reason over what action to take next, for example which “merchandising offer” shall I place before this customer NOW, do [...]
Laurence on Feb 20 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
Nice post on why VC must change to support a new type of company… by True Ventures, Oleg – thanks for the tip
“….the emergence of extreme capital efficiency from new web infrastructures and evolving software architectures has also been critical to this shift. The bottom line is that the venture industry is out of alignment [...]
Laurence on Feb 17 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
Cambridge and the new economy. #1
Umair Haque: writes….. “The centuries-old institutions of orthodox capitalism cannot support the transition to a hyperconnected global economy. They are increasingly unable to allocate capital efficiently, much less grow it productively. And so what we are seeing nothing less than the wholesale deconstruction of the global financial and economic system.
Who’s [...]
Laurence on Feb 16 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
It seems appropriate to start this post from my iPhone as the subject is about agility. Chet Richards has written an excellent book called “certain to win” which delves in to military strategy and extracts a compelling argument for wining being tied to agility. The core concept is that we should OBSERVE-ORIENTATE-DECIDE-ACT and we should [...]
Laurence on Feb 12 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
Do we as VC’s use these tough times to drive down deal prices?
This question came up yesterday at the CUE conference. Well I personally think that there is some re-setting of expectations going on in the market place but on the whole – people will remember how players behave during these tough times and this [...]
Laurence on Feb 12 2009 | Filed under: Ideas
Cambridge needs some fizz, and i like my bubbles techie!
Last night I was speaking with Sitar of Doughty Hansen (after a truly excellent Cambridge University Entrepreneurs and CUTEC event) about drinktank and how it was succeeding where other networking venues failed. Well it’s kinda the same in Cambridge since Library House gave up their networking [...]
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