Congrats to the Balderton team for raising a healthy new fund, chiming in at $430m. This on the back of Accel’s Europe fund which weighed in at $500m.Mike Butcher makes the salient point that the Balderton focus will be much larger deals that the...
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Christmas is normally a quiet time of year for Internet sites. As families sit in and tuck in to telly and turkey, they don’t go usually online.Except that they do if it is social networking. Robin Grant points to facebook usage in the UK over the..
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I wonder does it get worse than this? (Probably).      
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Ask.com today rolled out an ‘answers feature’ which is a long line in innovations they are bringing to the search space. I am a big believer that there is lots more innovation to come in search. In fact, I am deeply involved in True Knowledge.
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Three months ago I asked what the recession would mean for start-ups.Since then, we sort of know what has transpired. The wholesale funding model (which provided an ample supply of credit) has died and VC investment activity and exits have fallen off a...
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