Fundality

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Is there a new funding reality for start-ups today? A fundality?
The vast majority of start-ups will bootstrap, because equity funding is thin on the ground. The credit crunch may take away a lot of the sources of debt funding […]

10 Truths About The UK Start-Up Scene

Whilst doing some research yesterday I came across this comment by Suw Charman on a post at Plastic Bag.
The post is quite old (C. 2005) asking where are all the UK start-ups but Suw makes some points that I think many UK entrepreneurs will recognise.
To paraphrase Suw

banks don’t understand
very little support or training
you will spend […]

If you can count it on two hands…

Mike Butcher, over at TechCrunch UK reported a post at FoundRead titled 9 VC’s you’re gonna want to avoid. It’s a funny list and worth hopping over to read.
Of course the real story is that the first six months of 2007 saw a record number of VC investments in UK Web 2.0 companies - so […]

New Year, New Look, New Products

There will be some changes here at the kitchen in 2008.
PeerPlink Blog Network
We will be launching a blog network on the 1st of Jan, covering Technology, Start Ups, Design, Marketing, Applications and Gossip.
We are looking for writers and stories, check out the PeerPlink home page for details and if interested just fill in the simple […]

SEO, the long tail, Google, Seth Godin and Kingsway Mansions

There is, has been and probably always will be some sort of animosity towards SEO in certain parts of the blogosphere, this post isn’t really about that debate but you can read about it here.
SEO is the lifeblood of just about all online businesses so getting it right pays. The long tail in seo has […]

Thinking Inside the Box

I’ve just been Reading Thinking Inside the Box (a reader in interiors for the 21st century) one of the editors being a friend/colleague of my wife, who is also mentioned in the book. What stood out was what my pal, Drew Plunkett wrote about design
Shared understanding of the conventions and mechanisms of everyday existence gives […]

Instant Blog Network

We’ll be releasing a little script this week that will allow you to instantly create a blog network.
Let’s say you have 5 blogs and you want a single point of entry to them then this little script will do the job.
You install it on one domain, then add your blogs. What you will end up […]

Will it work?

Evan Williams (Twitter co-founder among other things) has made a very insightful post on evaluating your idea.
Evan poses 7 questions

Tractability
Question: How difficult will it be to launch a worthwhile version 1.0?
Obviousness
Question: Is it clear why people should use it?
Deepness
Question: How much value can you ultimately deliver?
Wideness
Question: How many people may ultimately use it?
Discoverability
Question: How will […]

A month in a post

Once upon a time I had time to write at least once every day, alas that just isn’t the case, it’s not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s that I only have one pair of hands.
Earlier this week we quietly launched Locationate in stealth mode/beta. Getting it launched has been a mammoth task […]

Who’s the new Microsoft

For ages (well a couple of years) people have been touting Google as the new Microsoft, and yes Google has the ability to become a scary beast - while Microsoft took over your PC, Google is taking over your online life, data and privacy, they really do know what you did last summer.
But a modest, […]

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