New investment: Figure 1, a healthcare photo sharing app
Over the years, we’ve seen web and mobile technology disrupt business, education, legal and many other fields as professionals adopt products that help them work more effectively and efficiently. While the healthcare industry has always been more conservative, it is now primed for change. At Version One, we have been looking intensely for investment opportunities […]
Re-imagining the mobile use case
Google recently released the results of a new study on mobile search and conversions. Along with Nielsen, Google analyzed over 6,000 mobile searches and the actions that came after the search. While there are quite a few interesting findings (including the fact that 55 percent of conversions occur within the first hour of the mobile […]
What are your predictions for 2011? Here are my top 4.
I didn’t do too badly predicting what would happen in the consumer Internet space in 2010 so I am giving it another try for 2011: Android will become the most important mobile platform to develop for – the iPhone platform will be number 2, the rest (RIM, Windows Phone) will only play a marginal role. […]
New investment: Barcode Hero, a “Foursquare for shopping”
Image via Wikipedia After the investment in Empire Avenue last week I am very excited to announce another investment today: Barcode Hero‘s mission is to help shoppers in physical stores, through breakthrough mobile technology. Simply put, it is like a “Foursquare for shopping”: Barcode Hero users scan products at home or in a store, build […]
How to react to product problems (hint: not like Apple)
Image via CrunchBase As the iPhone 4 antenna problem is slowly spiraling out of control (some people even start discussing a recall) I thought it would be a good time to review a few key points how to react to (serious) product problems as a company. I learned my share back in the AbeBooks days […]