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1,783 | danw | 2007-03-02T00:55:39 | Threadless and Vimeo fireside chat, part 2 | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/295-fireside-chat-skinnycorp-threadless-and-connected-ventures-vimeo-part-2-of-2 | 1 | 1 | [
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1,785 | msgbeepa | 2007-03-02T01:08:09 | Should Digg Sue Wired News? | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=13945222 | 1 | 1 | [
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1,786 | danw | 2007-03-02T01:14:51 | Gareth Knight, Technovated video interview - on differences between Silicon Valley and Europe, FOWA and sharing office space | null | http://www.vecosys.com/2007/03/01/video-interview-gareth-knight-technovated/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,787 | danw | 2007-03-02T01:20:54 | More Anger! - Anger as a driver of product adoption | null | http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2007/03/etel_coverage_more_anger.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,788 | danw | 2007-03-02T01:31:09 | eBay partners with Bebo | null | http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ebay-looks-to-social-nets-for-growth-report/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,798 | danw | 2007-03-02T02:42:33 | Interactive multitouch cocktail bar [video] | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKehq6qsdY | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T13:13:24 | null | train |
1,800 | dawie | 2007-03-02T02:45:17 | iShopr - Part 1 - Screenshots of the real thing | null | http://www.ishopr.com/blog/2007/03/01/ishopr-part-1/ | 1 | 1 | [
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1,802 | danw | 2007-03-02T03:27:17 | How to make a successful start-up | null | http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/02/internet_people_how_to_make_su.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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1,813 | farmer | 2007-03-02T04:43:13 | BitTorrent's Big Play | null | http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21475&hed=BitTorrent%e2%80%99s+Big+Play§or=Industries&subsector=InternetAndServices | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,815 | Elfan | 2007-03-02T05:30:07 | Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with cloud OS? | null | http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=293 | 3 | 1 | [
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1,818 | Elfan | 2007-03-02T05:43:17 | Ben Franklin's Advice to a Young Tradesman | null | http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/07/04/ben-franklins-advice-to-a-young-tradesman/ | 4 | 1 | [
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1,819 | ereldon | 2007-03-02T05:44:29 | Hackers in Eastern Europe: so much, yet so little. | null | http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?story_id=8781427&fsrc=RSS | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | cut_off | Brains boxed in | 2007-03-01T00:00:00.000Z | The Economist | Business | Eastern Europe's technology boomHow long can the good times last?ON THE face of it, Romania's software industry could hardly be doing better. Foreign firms such as Microsoft, Alcatel and Hewlett-Packard are piling in, attracted by cheap, skilled and multilingual programmers, and proximity to rich Europe. It is part of a wider boom stretching from well known hotspots such as Estonia (home to Skype) to autocratic Belarus.This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Brains boxed in”From the March 3rd 2007 editionDiscover stories from this section and more in the list of contentsExplore the edition | 2024-11-08T07:15:33 | en | train |
1,820 | Harj | 2007-03-02T06:14:46 | Is Google a Media Company? | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/01/is-google-a-media-company/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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1,826 | staunch | 2007-03-02T07:49:50 | (800) 511-8544 -- Speak with the CEO -- 7 days a week 12:00-4:00PM | null | http://www.wesabe.com/page/talk_to_jason | 15 | 4 | [
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1,830 | jwecker | 2007-03-02T09:03:05 | Designing Change | null | http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_11/b4025405.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg | null | By Michael Riley | Why a Cybersecurity Prodigy Carried Out a Hacking SpreeA cyber prodigy defended companies against intrusion while continuing to amass data through a series of his own hacks.How US Voting Machines Became Safer Than EverClear Ballot shows just how slow, steady and paper-dependent the industry is.The Big TakeAmerica Is Filling Notorious Former Jails With Asylum-SeekersDetainees await immigration court hearings in Deep South facilities with long records of mistreatment.Businessweek DailySign up for the newsletterJoe Raedle/Getty ImagesHow Trump Weaponized Nostalgia (Again)Looking backward can be a potent force. Plus: Elon Musk’s victory, and what polling got wrong.Trump’s Epic Victory Is a Story of Widespread DiscontentThe Election Night Party ConundrumThe Big TakeBYD Is Winning the Global Race to Make Cheaper EVsThe Chinese company is flooding markets with its cars—while the US is doing everything it can to keep the booming brand out.PursuitsFive New Movies About Family Drama This Fall Might Ease Your OwnThe $2.5 Billion Plan to Transform Six Historic Blocks in South BeachTrendy Sparkling Wines to Get Your Holiday Parties Started RightEver Wanted to Ski in Japan? This Is Your YearThese New Skis and Boots Can Instantly Improve Your Technique and ConfidenceDynamic US Restaurateurs Are Taking Their Talents to the SlopesIn this issueBYD Is Winning the Global Race to Make Cheaper EVsHow Starbucks Became a Sugary Teen EmporiumA Fentanyl Vaccine Is a Long Shot That Just Might WorkIn this issueWhat Kamala Harris Would Mean for Wall Street and Main StreetHow Apple Rules the WorldThe Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online PokerIn this issueHow Legal Sports Betting Changed Everything for Players, Fans and MoreWhat Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your TownInside Worldcoin’s Orb Factory, Audacious and Absurd Defender of HumanityIn this issueTrump on What He’d Do With Taxes, Tariffs, Jerome Powell and MoreRoblox Is Fighting to Keep Pedophiles Away, and Not Always WinningHow Rivian Became the Anti-TeslaSee all issuesChevron RightIn this issueBYD Is Winning the Global Race to Make Cheaper EVsHow Starbucks Became a Sugary Teen EmporiumA Fentanyl Vaccine Is a Long Shot That Just Might WorkIn this issueWhat Kamala Harris Would Mean for Wall Street and Main StreetHow Apple Rules the WorldThe Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online PokerIn this issueHow Legal Sports Betting Changed Everything for Players, Fans and MoreWhat Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your TownInside Worldcoin’s Orb Factory, Audacious and Absurd Defender of HumanityIn this issueTrump on What He’d Do With Taxes, Tariffs, Jerome Powell and MoreRoblox Is Fighting to Keep Pedophiles Away, and Not Always WinningHow Rivian Became the Anti-TeslaSee all issuesChevron RightRadioArk's Cathie Wood Interview23:39 | 2024-11-08T02:29:07 | en | train |
1,831 | jwecker | 2007-03-02T09:09:43 | Death by Risk Aversion | null | http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/death_by_riskav.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,836 | danw | 2007-03-02T11:11:16 | Copyright: get to know the facts | null | http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/biz/copyright-know-the-facts | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,839 | danw | 2007-03-02T11:41:57 | Last desktop app standing: IM Client | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/last-desktop-app-standing-im-client/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,840 | sharpshoot | 2007-03-02T12:01:39 | The Cognitive Analysis of Tagging | null | http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,841 | amichail | 2007-03-02T13:00:07 | Startup idea for helping people better understand their printed books | null | 1 | 8 | [
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1,845 | jwecker | 2007-03-02T13:38:46 | 5 New Jobs of the Web 2.0 Generation | null | http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/01/5-web-based-entrepreneurship-experiments/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,847 | Alex3917 | 2007-03-02T14:23:30 | Can VCs tell an A-Team from a B-Team? | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/06/16/ateams_and_btea.html | 8 | 2 | [
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1,848 | Alex3917 | 2007-03-02T14:26:59 | What are the implications of the Conceptual Age for startups? | null | http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html | 6 | 5 | [
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1,856 | danw | 2007-03-02T15:49:28 | Map of Google Subsidiaries Worldwide, with Some Surprises | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/02/map_of_google_s.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,859 | mattculbreth | 2007-03-02T16:28:51 | Web First Impressions--and what to do with them | null | http://www.mymicroisv.com/?p=226 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,860 | danw | 2007-03-02T16:53:20 | How web 2.0 logos are drawn | null | http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/revealing-methods-of-drawing-web-20-logos/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | How Web 2.0 Logos Are Drawn With Photoshop | 2007-03-01T07:17:08+00:00 | Hongkiat.com |
Ever wonder how these guys draw their Web 2.0 Logos? Sometimes it’s nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100%, though) with Photoshop.
1. Download and Install style file
First of all, you will need to download a style I’ve created and load it into Photoshop.
Download Photoshop style here. (Right-click -> Save as)
For Photoshop users, put this style file into Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\Presets\Styles
2. Load style
Call up your Style Dialog box in Photoshop
w
Windows > Styles
Notice a small arrow button on the top right corner. Click on it and select Load Styles from the drop down
Find web20 from the list and click Load. If you don’t find web20, try closing Photoshop, re-open it repeat Step 1.
Click on the arrow button again and select Large List from drop down
Your result should look something similar to the image below.
3. The six Web 2.0 Logos
Here are six Web 2.0 Logos; MyBlogLog, Imified, mixd, skype, Linked In, and Go2Web20. The style you’ve just installed is going to reveal how to draw them. I’ll go through “mixd” and “Go2Web20” logos, the rest is just reusing the same technique.
4. How to draw
The reason I use Style here is that once they are saved into a .asl file (the file you downloaded), they are convenient to apply. Let’s go about drawing some of these logos.
Drawing mixd Logo
Initial observation, mixd logo consist of
“mixd” text
rounded rectangular
small dot
smaller dot
We will roughly draw them out in Photoshop, each element in a different layer, as illustrated in the image below.
Now, here’s the trick. Look for “mixd-label” in the Style Dialog. Drag them directly to the background layer, small dot layer, and smaller dot layer, respectively. If you drag them correctly, you will notice that the layer will now inherit the colors and blending of the style. Find “mixd-font” in Style Dialog, drag it to the text layer, and your mixd logo is complete, 90% like the original, I’ll say.
Drawing Go2Web20 Logo
Have 4 new layers created, each for “GO“, “2“, “WEB” and “2.0“
Drag “go2web20-purple” from Style Dialog into “GO” & “WEB”, drag “go2web20-green” into “2” & “2.0” and you will get this final output.
As for the rest (MyBlogLog, imified, skype and Linked In), it’s all about dragging their respective style in and match with the correct font.
5. Conclusion
If you look into the Blending Options of each style, you will be noticed that most Web 2.0 logos are a matter of playing with gradients and strokes with the combination of the right fonts. This may not the “exact” way how these guys had done their logo, but it’s at least a way to achieve it. I’m not encouraging you to fake their style and redraw your logo, but try to understand it, and hopefully, you can come out with a nice sleek Web 2.0 logo. I love putting my designs in Style (.asl), I can reuse them whenever I want.
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1,871 | danielha | 2007-03-02T18:16:46 | Launch Party 2.0 -- A look into the culture and why it's Web 2.0, not Bubble 2.0 | null | http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/posts.html?pg=3 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,873 | nostrademons | 2007-03-02T18:21:09 | Startups and the Stockdale Paradox | null | http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2005/01/startups_and_th.html | 23 | 6 | [
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1,878 | danielha | 2007-03-02T19:23:04 | RFID staples tell you where you put down that report | null | http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/01/rfid_staples_te.html | 2 | 1 | [
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1,880 | danielha | 2007-03-02T19:27:31 | Yummy Kitchen Connect is Web 2.0 for the Kitchen | null | http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/yummy-kitchen-connect-is-web-20-for-the-kitchen-241060.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,881 | cbx | 2007-03-02T19:36:04 | Skinnycorp's Jeffrey and Jake talk about "Threadless and other things of Awesomeness" at the CommunityNext conference. | null | http://communitynext.com/threadless-video-notes | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,882 | stumpy124 | 2007-03-02T19:53:29 | What They Never Told You About Handling B2B Transactions | null | http://www.userscape.com/blog/index.php/site/comments/what_they_never_told_you_about_handling_b2b_transactions/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,883 | Elfan | 2007-03-02T20:00:20 | Sun at 25: Where are the founders now? | null | http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/26/HNsun25wherenow_1.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,884 | mattculbreth | 2007-03-02T20:10:15 | Joel on Office Space Calculations | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/03/02.html | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,885 | tim | 2007-03-02T20:41:09 | Carly Fiorina about Leadership and Tough Choices (Video) | null | http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/424/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
1,890 | juwo | 2007-03-02T21:47:04 | I need your advice! Startup Failing. Should I simply release the product? | null | http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-need-your-advice-startup-failing.html | 5 | 22 | [
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One common pattern I’ve seen with small tech companies is how their initial success by focusing on self-driven engineering talent creates problems they are completely unequipped to solve. I call this the start-up management inflection point.
The premise:
Small engineering start-up is born, does well, hires like mad.
Heavy hiring bias for self-driven solo programmer prodigies.
Company grows; scores of engineers are productive, but conflicts and miscommunications rise.
Soon primary challenge isn’t quality programmers: it’s organizing them.
No matter how self-directed programmers are, eventually their utility declines as ambiguities in direction, conflicts in direction and ownership increase.
When a certain size is reached, likely 100 to 200, the company changes because of scale effects. But scale effects are hard to recognize, predict or compensate for. Hiring more brilliant engineers won’t solve this problem.
The trap:
The organization has history of success without management talent.
The staff has biases against depending on management to solve problems (that’s why they joined a startup).
Organizational leaders are engineers first, managers second (or fifth). This may include the founders and CEO, who’s only sanity check on management philosophy is themselves.
Even if leaders want better management, it’s not a strength. Worse, they’re trying to improve management in an environment resistant to it.
Dozens of tech-sector companies are stuck in this trap and have been for years. They have manager to programmer ratios of 15 to 1, bad user experiences (a common result of different programmers designing things differently) and consensus driven decision making models that squander programmer brilliance.
For awhile the fast pace of changes hides these problems, but soon those with more experience realize the effectiveness of individuals has dropped dramatically.
So what’s the solution?
The answers come fast if everyone has shared goals. Someone has to call out this new kind of problem: the meta problem of scaling up #s of people, and make managing it a top goal. Talent and passion alone are not the solution to this new kind of problem.
Good questions include:
What are the symptoms? The pain points?
Which teams have been best at overcoming them? worst?
What can be copied or emulated from the good teams, or from other similarly sized startups?
With those questions fresh in everyones mind overcoming the inflection point is possible.
Goals start-ups need at the inflection point:
We want everyone to be as productive and happy as possible
We want programmers to be as autonomous as possible, without diminishing #1
We are a different company and need to actively ensure those things are still true
With pain points + goals, the magic happens. People can see why surgical addition of management structure, or smarter ways to work when you have teams of teams, are logically necessary. It’s the same smart, no-frills behavior that’s gotten the company to where it is, just applied to a different dimension.
Tactics to use to get past the inflection point:
The pain points of any growing start-up vary. But here’s a starter list of common tactics that should be considered.
Create an empowered team lead role, for people talented at leading, communicating and organizing. This is a different skill from writing great code: recognize your best leads won’t necessarily be your best coders. Invest in rewarding, hiring and training for this role. Don’t default to making your best programmers leads, as that is classic Peter Principle behavior. If you create the role, don’t create rules or procedures. The leads will self-create with their teams as needed.
Clarify who has tie-breaking authority to end consensus-madness, break political deadlocks, and over-ride virtual team Catch-22s. This gives people a stupidity extinguisher to handle flare-ups in communication bottlenecks. Reward folks who use their authority appropriately.
Make every VP or senior manager say the word Delegate, 5 times a day, and at least once before every meeting. As start-ups scale, founder types often become bottlenecks: they have to learn to get out of the way.
Have every VP or senior manager wear a t-shirt that says “Hit me if I Micromanage you” every Wednesday: call it Micromanagement recovery day. Serve beer, pizza and smash magnifying glasses with hammers. (See An Open Letter To Micromanagers)
Use a simple process for planning work. XP, lightweight specs, something – it’s unavoidable, but it doesn’t have to suck and you do need to have one. More people means more dependencies, and eventually retroactively handling dependencies costs you more than catching them before you write code. Let teams experiment with methods until ones that work best are discovered.
Whatever you do, clarify the reasons/goals before you do it. Then check in with all the impacted parties in 2 weeks after the change, and see if the pain is gone. If it’s not, stop or change what you did, and try again.
[1] – Most start-up literature I’ve read focuses heavily on getting off the ground. I’ve found little about the difficult transition from start-up to small company, especially from a management perspective. If I’ve missed a good resource, leave a comment.
[Post lightly revised 7-17, and link added]
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1,973 | digiman | 2007-03-03T13:47:07 | 34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog | null | http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | 34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog | 2007-02-28T22:52:31+00:00 | Darren Rowse |
Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why they unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged.
I’ve attempted to categorize them below. Obviously with 103 opinions (and most people giving multiple reasons all in their own words) I’ve had to make some judgement calls in classifying comments left. Some of the categories below have overlap but I think you’ll get a pretty good picture of what motivates people to unsubscribe from RSS feeds.
34 Reasons Why People Unsubscribe from RSS feeds:
Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) – 37
Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) – 29
Partial Excerpts Feeds – 25
Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) – 23
Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News) – 19
Uninteresting Content – 16
Irrelevant Content – 13
The Blogger’s Ego – Too much self promotion – 11
Low Quality Content – 11
Too many posts that are too long – 10
Negative blogging – 7
Feed Errors – Especially when a Feed Reloads the latest 10-20 posts every time – 7
Offensive Content/Personal attacks/Discrimination – 6
‘infomercials’ (too much selling) – 6
Blog Titles that Don’t Tell what the post is about – 5
No or Poor Formatting in posts – 5
My own interests as a reader change – 5
No Longer Useful or Valuable – 4
Too many links in the text and not enough content – 4
Advertising – 3
Inconsistent writing (style and focus) – 2
Too Many Grammatical Errors – 2
Found other feeds that are better – 2
Too Narrow a focus – 1
Too much repetition in topic – 1
Pushiness of Blogger – 1
Blogger Doesn’t Respond to Comments – 1
No Images in the feed – 1
Lack of Confidence or Opinion – 1
Lack of a sense of who the blogger is – 1
Too much clutter/extras at the end of posts – 1
Talking Down to Readers – 1
Too many quotes – 1
Change of Primary blogger – 1
A few brief comments (I wouldn’t want to have a long post now….):
The Frequency of Posting is obviously a big factor with 35% of respondents saying that too many posts was reason for unsubscribing and 28% saying that infrequent posts was reason to delete a feed from their reader. Interestingly, the ‘infrequent posting’ vote was perhaps a little less than last time I asked a group of bloggers this question. I suspect that with advancements in Feed Readers that inactive feeds don’t bother as many people as they did previously (ie Google Reader has a mode where you simply don’t see a feed unless it’s updated).
The Partial Feeds Vote got off to a slow start but gained momentum as the comment thread grew. 24% of respondents said they unsubscribe from feeds that are partial or just title feeds.
Off Topic Posting and blogs changing direction/focus is an obvious annoyance to many (this one surprised me slightly) with 22% of people giving it as a reason.
Content – I found it interesting that the quality, relevance and nature of content came down the list. Things like the form and frequency of the feed dominated the discussion while the actual content itself came in as secondary importance. Perhaps this was skewed slightly by the way I asked the question and by the first responses (I suspect that some people were swayed by the issues that others already raised).
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1,989 | abstractbill | 2007-03-03T15:29:20 | The European startup scene | null | http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/02/european-start-up-scene/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | European start-up scene - Ben Metcalfe | 2007-03-02T10:07:54+00:00 | Ben |
A belated post about the European Start-Up Scene panel at FoWA and my thoughts on the start-up scene in London having just spent a week there…
Although I wasn’t officially at the Future of Web Apps conference, I did attend the “Can the European start-up scene become like Silicon Valley?” lunchtime debate.
There’s been plenty of blog posts about the debate, including insights from Saul Klein and Max Jenning – both of whom are investors and were on the panel.
Despite an hour of interesting and insightful comment and questioning, I left the debate with the same frustrations about the UK start-up scene that originally led me off to San Francisco and The Valley last year.
Creating the explosion needs spark and fuel
For me, there are two overall aspects to this: creating an interest in startup culture (the spark) and then ensuring the financial backing and support network is there (the fuel).
I can see the spark slowly igniting – people are suddenly a lot more interested then they were 18 months ago. But everyone in UK/Europe still seems very risk averse – perhaps because of the social stigma ‘failure’ attracts here, not to mention the financial penalties.
I also think many people aren’t prepared for the commitment of working 25 hour days to get your start-up going. That’s not a bad thing, it’s not for everyone, but I think it’s why we see so much talent locked up in the BBC and Yahoo! where one can roll in at a leisurely 10am and roll out at 6pm, off to the bar for a night of fun and entertainment. I know, I’ve been there and done that!
My contribution to the debate was that having seen people with the same skills sets working in both London and San Francisco I had been surprised at how much harder people worked in San Francisco, and how much more hungry they were for success.
However I do think the lack of fuel is perhaps the more pressing issue. It was great to see Saul from Index Ventures on the panel, however the state of the European VC scene (for internet startups) is generally very poor. He was the only VC on the panel, along with Max Jenning who (as I understand it) offers smaller angel-level seed funding.
Despite members of the panel inferring otherwise, there is still only a tiny VC scene here in the UK and even those such as Index Partners make a lot/most of their investments abroad – especially in Silicon Valley.
One of the things that needs to happen is for the creation of a better support network. And like any good network it needs good nodes (people, companies) and good connections (events, community, etc). Geek Dinners, largely spurred on by Ian Forrester, has been a great start but we need to move things up a notch.
I’m please to read about the OpenCoffee Club idea from Saul – this for me takes this to another level – perhaps a little bit more business orientated etc then Geek Dinners. These are the connections in the network, we still need good nodes to step up too.
As Philip Wilkinson wrote in a blog comment on Saul’s blog, people in San Francisco and The Valley are happy to meet over a coffee to chat about things openly. I know there’s people in San Francisco I can turn to for advice about VC money, potential hires, etc (all free, no-obligation, etc) and in turn I too give out advice to others to put something back. In the 7 years I really worked at a professional level in the London Internet scene, I cannot think of many people who I knew who would be so available (bar personal friends, etc).
We all need to open up a little here in London, folks!
It’s not about building ecosystem silos
But overall bugbear is this silo-like mentality about the two ecosystems – that we (Europeans) somehow need to emulate and duplicate everything there is on the West Coast in order to create our own little start-up habitat.
Considering this is about the Internet – a global phenomenon which tears down geographic boundaries – it seems very strange.
The one argument that is always touted is that VC’s and Angels liked to invest in companies that were physically close to them. Yeah, and it’s true – I’m sure they do. But that’s not the investment dynamic we’re current in right now – at least not in Silicon Valley.
It’s a sellers market with VC firms being pushed by those who provide the money to keep the momentum of buying into good investment opportunities. Not only that, they’re competing with their rival firms to sign up the best companies. These days it’s not just how much money you’re going to get for handing over your percentage, it’s what else the VC firm can do for you that counts.
I also know a number of friends with start-ups in San Francisco and The Valley who have Japanese backing, for example. And as mentioned above, London-based Index Ventures regularly invests in Silicon Valley companies.
I have some ideas on how to improve things on this front, and with that an announcement on this front in my next post.
Michael Arrington on the BBC
In closing I want to pick up on Michael Arrington’s remark that the BBC is ‘hindering UK innovation’ and should be ‘dissolved’. Mohamed Nanabhay and others have been asking me for my views on this!
So I spoke to Michael afterwards and he was pretty off-hand about the whole thing and mentioned that he was in part playing the controversial card. I’m not sure whether he really believes the BBC should be dissolved or not.
But I do have my own views on this – which I’ll give with the usual disclosure/health warning that I was a long-serving BBC employee and continue to have ongoing ties to the organization.
An example that was given by the panel was startup innovation around education – saying that any startup looking to offer a UK education based proposition would find it difficult to compete with the BBC… I would agree to a point but then would also suggest that the BBC only offers material in line with the UK schools syllabus and I don’t believe that such material should be commercialized in the first place. In fact the BBC should be commended for ensuring that this material is available to everyone without the barrier of a subscription, shelf-price or even advertisement aimed towards children. Technically you don’t even need a TV license to view the BBC website either. Start-ups who wish to offer educative material outside of the UK schools syllabus would probably not find themselves competing with the BBC.
I actually think the BBC trail-blazes a lot of new markets, way before the commercial sector has been prepared to invest. It’s ability to establish new consumer behaviors and trends without the need to make an immediate profit leads to new market opportunities that can then be exploited commercially.
We’re all disappointed with the BBC’s missed opportunity around the iPlayer – particularly it’s heavy use of DRM. But I’m not sure if the BBC decided not to participate in this space whether we would see anything as bold or as innovative from the commercial sector. It’s no coincidence that rival broadcasters like Channel 4 and Sky are now brining out their own on-demand services in response to the BBC’s announcement 18 months ago that it was working on the iPlayer.
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