REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
“We want to build a company that people all over the globe will look back in 30 years and talk about all the great games that we developed and the impact they had on people’s lives. The same way I personally feel about Nintendo, for example” Ilkka Paananen, CEO, SuperCell, following the $1.53m majority investment […]
“I’m a technology evangelist, a blogger, a university professor, a gentleman but I’m always a bit funky” Marco Zamperini, 1963-2013, on his page on about.me FinSMEs 14/10/2013
“In the next couple months, you may begin seeing an occasional ad in your Instagram feed if you’re in the United States” Instagram announces the addition of ads (read their entire message here). FinSMEs 03/10/2013
“The Visionaries Relentlessly Pursue Change“ Brant Cooper, Co-Author of the Lean Entrepreneur, during his lesson today at Rome-based startup incubator Luiss Enlabs FinSMEs 02/10/2013
“….Funding is neither a beginning, nor a destination for us. It’s just part of a positive avalanche of things which come with successful growth. Funding comes as a result of that growth, and at the same time it contributes back and multiplies that growth“. Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO, Wrike, comments on the $10m investment […]
“Studio will do for design what blogs have done for writers and what Instagram did for photography” Jeff Burningham, founder and managing director of Peak Ventures FinSMEs 25/09/2013
“The secret of happiness is minimizing the amount of time you spent with people you don’t choose to be with. This is just math!” Phil Libin, Evernote, CEO, PandoMonthly, Fireside Chat (36’40”) [youtube id=”XHed2NGhg2g” width=”620″ height=”360″] FinSMEs 16/09/2013
“I have been active as an investor for over a decade and will continue to do so. I’ve had many ups and down, successes, IPOs, trade-sales, small wins, zombies, big losses and even dead companies. I’ve seen it all and I’ve felt it all“. In a long post, Lars Hinrichs expanied the reasons behind the […]
“Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity” Carl Icahn, Billionaire Investor, on his Twitter Bio (@Carl_C_Icahn) FinSMEs 14/08/2013
“There will, of course, be change at The Post over the coming years. That’s essential and would have happened with or without new ownership. The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no […]
“These changes will have zero impact on the Fab customer experience in Germany and the EU overall” Jason Goldberg, Fab, Founder and CEO, tells the story behind the elimination of more than 100 positions in the Berlin office by the end of 2013 (read here the entire story on his blog Betashop) FinSMEs 30/07/2013
“It’s harmless if reporters and know-it-alls dismiss your startup. They always get things wrong. It’s even ok if investors dismiss your startup; they’ll change their minds when they see growth. The big danger is that you’ll dismiss your startup yourself” Paul Graham, programmer, writer, entrepreneur, and investor (YC), in his latest essay “Do Things That […]
“We have already far outgrown our original use case of only sending large files, and our name should reflect where we are as a company today as well as where we want to go in the future” Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, Hightail – formerly YouSendIt – (read his post here) FinSMEs 10/07/2013
“Our online approach has transformed angel investing and has proven to be the catalyst for the birth of a new breed of angel investor – the “armchair dragon”! Luke Lang, Co-founder and CMO, CrowdCube (read the entire interview here) FinSMEs 06/07/2013
“Zynga is a great business that has yet to realize its full potential.” Don Mattrick, new CEO of Zynga, (effective July 8, 2013) FinSMEs 02/07/2013