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Friday Feeding Vol. 14

Each Friday I share 5 articles that I found interesting or useful. Here's this week's batch... Digesting WWDC: cloudy [http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/6/4/digesting-wwdc-cloudy] by Benedict Evans [https://twitter.com/benedictevans] * Making sense of the latest announcements from Apple and what this might

A History Of Ecommerce in one Basket

I've been an Amazon UK customer since 2000. My order history shows 400 orders. About £10,000 lifetime value to date. It's a museum of recent modern ecommerce history 2000 - 1st purchase, a book 2001 - CDs This was the soundtrack of the summer, "

The Basics: Keeping Your Data Room Tidy and Complete

As soon as you sign any agreement on behalf of your company, it's time to start a data room. A data room? Once upon a time, if a company was sold, the acquiring company would need access to documents as part of the due diligence process. The documents

Death Defying Silicon Roundabout

[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AOld_Street_Roundabout_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1758354.jpg] Silicon Roundabout provides a gravitational pull for the London tech scene. I feel that gravitational pull on a daily basis. In March, Cory Doctorow wrote an article in the Guardian entitled "The slow

Promoting Inexperienced Managers

Here is a very common scenario in startups; you need a manager for a fast growing team. Do you hire in a manager to a team or do you ask one of the most promising team members to be the manager? What if that person has never managed people before?

Friday Feeding Vol.13

Each Friday I share 5 articles that I found interesting or useful. Here's this week's batch... Revenue benchmark for Series A – $1m run-rate and 20% MoM growth [http://www.theequitykicker.com/2014/06/04/revenue-benchmark-series-1m-run-rate/] by Nic Brisbourne [https://twitter.com/brisbourne] * My Partner Nic guides

The Single Founder Hypothesis

A founders' first task is to validate her business, not find a co-founder. In the startup world there are two truisms that are regularly aired which deserve questioning. 1. Approach investors once you have a product and some traction 2. Approach investors as a team; a team of two

Pitching VCs: Explain The Problem Before The Solution

When pitching your business to an investor, here's a tip. Make sure that your audience (the investor) fully understands the nature and size of the problem that you're solving before jumping into how you're going to solve it. Put the Why before the What.

When Things Don't Go To Plan

[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStorm_felled_tree_-c.jpg]Today I'm reminded of a conversation that happened in the aftermath of a storm. I was on a campsite. My Area Manager, Simon, said to me, "David, you don't like it when things go

Friday Feeding Vol. 12

Each Friday I share 5 articles that I found interesting or useful. Here's this week's batch... 2014 Internet Trends [http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends] by Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers [https://twitter.com/kpcb] * Once a year Mary Meeker produces this excellent review on