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On Valuations And That “Bubble” Word

July 3, 2014

Business

Business, Capital Access - Financing, Development Stage, Financial services, Initial public offering, London, Sam Altman, Venture capital

There has been lots of discussions of late on whether or not we’re in the midst of a bubble that could result in another DotCom burst. Much of the discussion has been front-footed by those with vested interests –…

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On Creating Another Silicon Valley, And Why Iceland Shouldn’t…

June 17, 2014

Business

#StartupIceland, GreenQLoud, Iceland, London, McDonalds, New Zealand, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Valley

I’ve just spent a week in Iceland meeting with startups and presenting to the Startup Iceland conference. The conference is the brainchild of Bala Kamallakharan, a one-time banker and now investor in the Icelandic technology scene. Kamallakharan saw the…

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Structure Europe – On Cloud Brokerage

October 11, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud Options, John Cowan, London, Om Malik, San Francisco, Structure 2010, Zimory

Last month I had the pleasure of visiting one of my favorite cities, London, for GigaOm‘s Structure event. While there I moderated a panel with two very smart individuals, John Cowan, CEO of 6Fusion and James Mitchell, CEO of…

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Sauce Labs Launches Enterprise Edition – Following the End-User to Central IT Attention Pivot

July 16, 2013

Business

GitHub, London, Open source, Programming, Sauce, Sauce Labs, Software Testing, Unit testing

Sauce Labs, is another in the long list of web and mobile application testing companies. It provides an automated test service that allows users to run functional and unit tests on applications – native, mobile web and desktop. Today…

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The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology

February 13, 2013

Business

BigData, Business, Frankfurt, Future, Information technology, London, Machine learning, Technology

While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off…

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On Valuations And That “Bubble” Word

On Creating Another Silicon Valley, And Why Iceland Shouldn’t…

Structure Europe – On Cloud Brokerage

Sauce Labs Launches Enterprise Edition – Following the End-User to Central IT Attention Pivot

The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology