Category: Archimedes Labs
Dear Zuck, Fuck!
I hope you don’t mind me calling you Zuck. We barely know each other, although I did once bump into you whilst walking in College Terrace in Palo Alto. The thing is, Mark feels too familiar, and Mr Zuckerburg way too formal. Besides I am a veteran entrepreneur and you are way younger than me…
Revolution and Death in Silicon Valley
I took my Tapestry story on the road this week, speaking at DEMO Fall in Santa Clara Convention Center. Here is what I said: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1gX2iLQ_k&w=420&h=315]
Fu*k*d Companies?
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M.dot joins Archimedes Labs
Archimedes Labs just announced that it has invested in the team at M.dot M.dot is led by Dominik Balogh and Pavel Serbajlo. As the piece on Archimedes web site states: M.dot’s vision is that all businesses can be Mobile accessible and discoverable. The platform allows businesses to create, maintain and promote their mobile presence, all…
Archimedes Labs mentioned in the Wall Street Journal
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article written by Timothy Hay about the practices of Law firms here in Silicon Valley in dealing with start-ups. Archimedes Labs gets a nice mention.
Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble, Meet Heckerty!
Broomstick Productions is Archimedes Labs latest portfolio company to launch into the world. Jan Ziff and Allan Davidson have a very special person in their life – Jan’s Mom. Or, because – like myself – Jan is from Yorkshire in the North of England, I should say Jan’s Mum….. Jan’s Mum had the very…
Blurtt launches in the app store
I first met Jeanette Cajide early in 2011. She was a founder at Blurtt – a company that was then focused on delivering a web based photo-upload service, permitting users to send printed postcards of said photos to friends via mail. A few things were quickly obvious. 1. Blurtt is a great name, but…
Quixey adds Eric Schmidt’s Fund and Archimedes Ventures to investor line up
Yesterday, Bay Area start-up Quixey announced that Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors fund had invested in the company. I’m pleased to say that along with my partners in Archimedes Ventures we have also joined the roster of investors in the company. All the best to Tomer Kagan and his team as they execute. The technology they…
Google launched Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality.
Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon Valley. I…
An Awesome web 2.0 post
Fred Wilson has an awesome post covering what is novel and new about web 2.0. Posting, subscribing and tagging are all discussed. Fred’s views mirror entirely what Mike and myself are discussing at Archimedes Ventures, and a little in public at TechCrunch. We have also experimented a little at EarningsCast. Try a search for the…