Ben Holmes - Index Ventures Pan Eurpoean venture fund 1.3bn Euros under managemnent Based in London and Geneva. Examples: Zend, Skype, MySQL, netvibes, moo, last.fm, king.com. Overview of VC Size of market: US $25bn 1446 transactions $10.5m average investment Europe: 4.1bn Euros 867 transactions 14m…
Commoditisation of IT and what the future holds Simon Wardley - Fotango Commoditisation Back in 1997, Spic girls, I was good looking, Labour were new and exciting. I was working in the financial sector. yesterdays hotstuff -> Today's boredom Photo of prime minister + Turkey 1890's - Electricity was hot…
Summary What makes a community Example of communities Common community themes Setting fertile ground for the growth of your community Characteristics of a virtual community Personal homepage Personal content creation Ability to interact with other's content ability to friend and share content Visitors don't make a community. A visitor might…
Edwin Aoki - Chief Architect AOL Where it all began. Commnuity was a a key promise of the web Webmail is the leading driver of page views. Email 9.32% of all page views Chat and IM take to the web. All the sucessful sites Mike mentioned are based around…
The future of startups and web companies The Magic formula Mike Arrington I'm scared of addressing brits due to TC uk, I want to say sorry for that. I want to talk about the difficulties European start-ups have. What's the right formula for a web start-up I'm a tech journo,…
The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. With hype around "Web 2.0" reaching an almost unbearable level, it…
The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Web developers the world over understand the benefits that standards-based development provide, but how…
The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. (Jeffery Zeldman notes at the beginning by Steve Marshall and myself; we had to…