New investment: SilkStart, SaaS for membership organizations
All membership organizations I am involved in face the same challenges: how to deliver value to and engage their members, how increase revenues to invest back into their organization and how to do all this on a shoestring budget. Technology can help solve these problems for the millions of associations out there and I am […]
Relaunch
The products of start-ups sometimes evolve so quickly that the communication of those changes falls behind – websites suddenly appear outdated and stale compared to the real story. This is how I felt when I looked at the w media ventures site a few weeks ago and decided that it was about time for a […]
New investment: GoInstant, browser sharing 2.0 (native, instant, social)
Screen sharing has been around for a while but the underlying technology (and hence the customer experience) has not really changed that much. It is neither instant (you need to download a piece of software) nor native (you usually see a video of another person’s desktop/browser resulting in a slow and “laggy” experience) – and […]
New investment: Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community
For the past decade the book industry has been pretty sheltered from the disruption the music and the film verticals have seen. But this is about to change dramatically. The distribution of books is rapidly moving digital as eReaders have gone mainstream. And now we can see for the first time how social is impacting […]
New investment: crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo
In the past few years crowdfunding platforms have transformed the way many projects are being financed – instead of just relying on family & friends to support them and their idea, musicians, film makers, entrepreneurs or simply anybody with a passion or a business idea can seek funding from Internet users on platforms like Indiegogo […]