December 2009
2 posts
How website spread globally over time…interesting to see the reach of websites like techcrunch
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=techcrunch&geo=US&cmpt=q
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WatchPart of a presentation done for Global Entrepreneur Week at Warwick, UK
The slides may seem a little small, if so please download the deck from www.slideshare.com/iqbalgandham
November 2009
1 post
The Idea: What type of Business Am I
After another two month hiatus, which I hope has been put to good use, in developing your idea, I’m back with the the next step in building your billion dollar (maybe it should be Australian $, since the others are tanking) business.
So just to recap:
1. You now have an idea which has been validated by lots of intoxicated people down the pub.
2. You now have an idea which you can explain...
October 2009
1 post
Intelligence comes from the Latin root intelligere, of understanding. Just because I know a fact doesn’t mean that I can put it into a context. The more intelligent someone is, the more they can see a fact in terms of other things. The greatest form of intelligence is someone who can make big links between different contexts, such as the scientist F. M. Burnet, who applied the principles of...
September 2009
5 posts
Those who read my tweets may have heard my ramblings about a crowd sourced weather system. Surely if we tweet our location + sunny/rain + Clear/cloudy + wind direction (hard part), someone can map this onto google maps, and voila we have realtime weather, even some prediction, since we can see what the weather is in North london, and will know its moving south, and as it moves tweets will update...
The Idea : Creating the Marketing Pitch
Just when you thought it was safe to come out, I decide to write another blog post. So far we have:
1. Thought of an idea
2. Validated the idea
All with just a pen, paper and a bowl of cereal. We now need to take the next step, and this is fine tuning the idea, really boiling it down to its basic pitch. Some people call this the “Elevator Pitch.” I however feel this is wrong, mainly...
Seedcamp finalists...the 21..23 actually
Well the second round has happened, and a shortlist for the seedcamp week has been announced, and Vouchacha is still there, nice one Ben.
Advertag – London, UK -Advertag is a semantic, non-hierarchic, tag-based list and search system. It allows users to submit any advert-style listing in the vein of Gumtree or Craigslist to a self-ordering, semantic database that allows the extremely fast,...
Dropbox ycombinator application
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/2/app.html
Seedcamp Round 2 - finalists
28 out of the 41 teams to make it to seedcamp interviews. NOTE this is NOT seedcamp week. I only have this list, if people know the other 13 missing from this list do let me know.
Shoutem.com
World on a hanger
Kvittar
Erply
Plug in SEO
Comufy
Wozaik
Skyforge
Joobili
YubiTech
Awplanet
BeBanjo
HelloTipi
Mixcloud
Wondergraphs
Layeredbrain
Talentrights.com
Newcope.com
Vouchacha
...
August 2009
5 posts
Great summer/autumn party Bootlaw guys, but did realise that entrepreneurs dislike dancefloors, it seemed as if the room downstairs was being avoided like the plague…
The Idea: Validation
Okay, so a little delay between posts, but life throws curve-balls, and blogs must wait.
So we have a ground breaking, life changing idea. What’s next? We need to validate our idea. So it’s time to get dressed, and go out into the world…don’t worry this is not street level market research, we are too early for that.
First, we need a target list of your friends, peers, generally...
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The Idea: Startup
We all have idea’s, some of them good, some bad, and some just plain ugly. We all have an entrepreneur’s streak within us also. But how do we get from an idea to a startup to a “proper” business. That is what the posts with the “Startup” caption on this blog are all about, its a story or should I say a journey, of what to do, and how to build a startup. Some of...
After much recovering from some mysterious (some call it swine) flu and other bugs I can actually start writing on this blog. My first port of call is “Building a Startup..The Science Of”. I plan this to be a weekly post, and archive it on other sections of the blog. The first post going out tomorrow will be “The Idea”
try out google new search, its supposed to be faster, and from what I can see, it focuses more on data which changes..i.e realtime http://www2.sandbox.google.com/
July 2009
4 posts
So Yahoo and Microsoft get into Bed. Now a little hint as to how to kill Google. Use the browser….Let me explain. In Firefox there is a plugin, which allows you to type in a “query” into the location bar. This looks up results from google, your history, wikipedia etc, which means you can search and goto google results WITHOUT going to google’s homepage. This means you never...
Its Friday, and trying out my new dashboard widget for posting to tumblr, next week my first post on my shiny new blog, all about howto build a startup…
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My Shiny New Blog
Okay so I now have a new blog, Why? simple the old one was…well Old :-)
I got a little bored of reviewing startups, and realised I spent most of my time helping others via email, chat, coffee meetings, you know the story. Well after a while I figured I may as well put these thoughts down onto a powerpoint. One thing led to another, and before I knew it I was giving gyan at some get together...