January 2012
1 post
“In order to increase serendipity in your life you must increase your...”
– John Hagel
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
“When I am grown up I will understand how BEAUTIFUL it feels to administrate my...”
– The interesting thoughts of Edward Morton (like the first bit, love the second)
September 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
“Do you have a passion of stunning food?……Do you love exciting new...”
– Best restaurant review ever, we’re off to the Nelson Tavern tomorrow :)
Restaurants in Christchurch - Dorset
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
January 2011
1 post
“20. Mind Control Gaming
Our brains give off little electrical signals, this is...”
– The 20 Most Interesting Products from CES
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
Great poem from The Four Hour Working Week
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When...
September 2010
2 posts
“In every possible future, all of today’s bubbles will burst, and their...”
– Peter Thiel 2008
August 2010
7 posts
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”
– Marvin Minsky, 1995
July 2010
2 posts
How not to do customer service - Viagogo
I’m trying to buy some Chelsea Tickets on Viagogo for my family. I have a season ticket and I’ve used the service before, but I’m really struggling with it now. Firstly it didn’t recognise my email address, ok, maybe that’s my fault (although I don’t think so), so I register again. It doesn’t recognise my season ticket number and advises me to contact...
June 2010
1 post
“A man interrupted one of the Buddha’s lectures with a flood of abuse....”
May 2010
2 posts
“The elevator pitch forms everyone’s first impression of your venture. It...”
– David Cowan - Bessemer
Video: British Pathé archive - 1970s Chelsea squad... →
Awesome video of the oldies singing our favourite song, and a little video footage before as well
April 2010
3 posts
Press cutting: The Wired 100: Positions 11 to 50 →
49. Nic Brisbourne Partner, DFJ Esprit Most VCs like to stay in the shadows, but Brisbourne’s blog, theequitykicker.com, is required reading for UK start-ups.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Summary of Wikipedia article on Omega-3’s.
The key active ingredients are EPA and DHA, which can be found directly in fish oil or synthesised in the body from Alpha-Linolenic acid (ALA) from various seed oils, e.g. Flaxseed oil. In body synthesis is less efficient than direct consumption of EPA and DHA, but there may be health benefits from consuming ALA beyond synthesis of EPA and DHA.
...
“business plans are like sausages, if you knew what went into them you...”
– Yossi Vardi
March 2010
3 posts
“I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven
When I awoke, I spent that on a...”
– The Case for the Fat Start-Up | Ben Horowitz | Voices | AllThingsD
“Paradoxically, the enduring competitive advantages in a global economy lie...”
– Michael Porter
February 2010
4 posts
Not all protein is the same
I’m reading The China Study at the moment and the third chapter contained some new news for me - not all the protein we eat is the same.
It turns out that there are hundreds of different types of proteins in our bodies which we synthesize from the food we eat. These proteins are made up from different combinations amino acids, and when we eat protein what we are really getting is the amino...
“It’s not the will to win that’s important. It’s the will to...”
– US football coach Dick Tomey
“A lot of what we seem to be doing in a product like that is getting design out...”
– iA » What’s Next in Web Design? - from Apple’s Jonathan Ive
BodyMedia Fit System →
Arm band with motion and temperature sensors which track body activity and calculate calories burned. Need to periodically plug it into your computer to upload data (no wireless).
$179 plus you have to subscribe to the web service. Web service includes a calorie consumption tool.
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
1 post
Ministry of Sound Best Dance Tracks of All Time
Disc Track No. Artist Track Name Sample
01 1 The Chemical Brothers Hey Boy Hey Girl
01 2 The Prodigy Firestarter
01 3 Faithless We Come 1
01 4 Underworld Born Slippy
01 5 Fatboy Slim Praise You
01 6 Cornershop Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)
01 7 RUN-DMC Vs Jason Nevins It’s Like That
01 8 Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden Bonkers
...
October 2009
3 posts
High Performance Web Sites →
14 Simple Ways to Reduct Page Load Times
WatchMaster of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates: SeedCamp 2009 (Sept 2009, London)
Including the messages: Launch, test, iterate, test, etc and cut out the stuff on your site that nobody uses.
Quoted on WSJ Blog
Freedom Ain’t Free, And Neither Is The News - DFJ’s Nic Brisbourne has some insights on the difference between price and value, based on controversy surrounding the AP’s decision to start charging fees to online readers. At issue is a comment made by AP Chairman Dean Singleton, who said “When you give it away for free it has no value. When you begin charging for it, it has some value.” Brisbourne...
September 2009
5 posts
10 Marketing Rules for Emerging Enterprise...
From Nick Gregory, of Market Accelerator Ltd - http://www.marketxl.co.uk/
Marketing in emerging (aka high tech fast growth) enterprise software companies is fundamentally different to your larger, more mature counterparts. You don’t have the resources, brand, or track record of the big vendors. Paradoxically, as we show in this document, this situation is a virtue not a disadvantage.
Our...
Context is everything
And popularly held notions of ‘beauty’ are not
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped...
“Me on the WSJ blog:
“Well-Made Coattails - Nic Brisbourne of DFJ Esprit...”
– The Daily Start-Up: A Deep-Packet Inspection - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
Quoted in the Guardian
….published more widely. The NYT has also recruited columnists to give online seminars – a week-long course on how American women’s lives have changed over the past 50 years with op-ed columnist Gail Collins, for example, costs $185 (£112).
Nic Brisbourne, a partner at the European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, last week wrote on paidcontent.org (owned by Guardian News and Media):...