Category: Business models
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Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
Last night I attend the London Business Starters meetup Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors. There were two presentations. Michael Waschnig talked about the start-up life cycle. He used the model presented in the Startup Genome Report (register and download): Discovery Validation Efficiency Scale Profit maximization Renewal With particular emphasis on the…
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The Power of Making at the V&A
Yesterday I went to the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A. It is an exhibition of crafted objects that range from Swarovski crystal bicycles to replacement human noses. My older (12, 16) children enjoyed it and my youngest (8) tolerated it. Favourite objects: Me: 3D printer for making small objects from plastic Elaine (my…
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Review of Londroid automated build Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/android/events/39952702/ Good, lots of Maven and Robojuice users. Conclusion seemed to be that automated testing on Android is hard and you have to seriously consider whether you are better off releasing a beta and letting users test. Keyapt SMS is a relatively small app and I will stick to testing by hand for now. Mippin…
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Nokia Windows phones
My attention has been somewhat distracted from technology by the Euro crisis and questions such as “are the Euro nations an optimal currency area“. I always thought the Euro was a bad idea and I was right; perhaps I should have bet against it but I did not, firstly because I don’t know how (and…
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How to start-up a tech company
I was at Droidcon last week and was asked by some graduates about how to start-up a tech company. Here for what it is worth was my advice: In my humble opinion key success factors include Creating a subscription product so you only have to sell it once and earn forever Identifying your distribution partners…
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Problems in the bedroom department
As a foot soldier and occasional general in the army of IT professionals who are moving trade on-line I occasionally worry about the death of the high street. HMV and Woolworths have gone and now Comet is in difficulty. The problem is that that shops offer both a discovery and transaction service but customers only…
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Londroid 16 Sep 2011 – 1.6 million downloads
The Londroid September meetup was a great success. Here is a quick review for people who could not make it. Kabbee – A marketplace for minicab journeys – Phil Makinson What is Kabbee? Kabbee is a price comparison and booking service for quality minicabs in Greater London. Very nice use of a smartphone. This is…
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Rational discrimination in employment
This is a rather odd post for me. Typically I am posting about Cloud and Project Management but I occasionally branch out into economics and this is such an occasion. Last night I attended CloudBase which was held at Hackney Community College. The principal Ian Ashman gave a good introduction to the work of his…
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Skype on Android – save serious money
I provide FogBugz training and spend quite a lot of time on the phone to the USA. I prefer to use my mobile phone with its headset but I really don’t like paying £ 1.76 per minute or whatever it is. I don’t even know what 02 charge me because I can’t understand their tariff.…
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Get rich in China; an historical perspective
I am not really a technologist, I am an entrepreneur who loves technology because it can create products that people want to buy. As such, I am fascinated by the Georgians and Victorians and the development of the entrepreneurialism. In Georgian times (1774), as now, the balance of trade deficit with China caused huge difficulties…
Dr James Bayley 