Launching Social Crowd Ventures and its first application Justbought.it
A few weeks ago I published my thoughts about application studios on this blog and today I am happy to announce the launch of new app studio, Vancouver-based Social Crowd Ventures. Social Crowd Ventures is a joint project between W Media and Adarsh Pallian, the very talented developer behind chart.ly and Tweetizen, and plans to […]
Time for a review of 2008
2008 is almost over so it is time for a review of the year – here is what I am taking away from 2008 (and what I think about 2009): In the past few months we have experienced the fastest economic meltdown since a long time – perhaps ever, perhaps since the Great Depression but […]
Nice article in this week’s BIV about W Media and Nexopia
I think that Curt Cherewayko has done a great job in this week’s Business in Vancouver describing the market opportunities for both W Media Ventures as well as Nexopia. Only correction: I am the proud father of only one (and not two) boys but what the heck….
Amazon acquires AbeBooks
Today Amazon announced the acquisition of Victoria-based AbeBooks, the company I have been involved with for over 7 years (operationally as COO until October last year, since then as Director and consultant). As you can imagine, I am extremely excited about this deal which makes tremendous sense for everybody involved: Amazon (who has been heavily […]
Relaunch time
Summer seems to be relaunch time for our portfolio companies: TeamPages has a fresh new look and an easier navigation and Tripsbytips completely relaunched its site making it much easier to add recommendations so that the best community-based travel tips should emerge very quickly for the main travel destinations of this world. In addition, LiveCurrent […]