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Time for our next step
August 24, 2010… this backdrop that we take extra pleasure in announcing our agreement with the highly regarded venture capital firm Sunstone Capital. Along with seed funding, this agreement means we will now have the considerable expertise of serial entrepreneur and all round great guy Nikolaj Nyholm on our board. (For extra details, check out this article from the ever-vigilant ArcticStartup).
In our opinion, timing could not be better. Despite gloom in much of the economy, momentum in the …
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financing, nikolaj nyholm, seed round, sunstone, vc round, venture capitalist | 3 CommentsKaggle: crowdsourcing genius or statistical anomaly?
November 14, 2011 Share In 2009 Hal Varian , Google’s chief economist, famously claimed that “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statistician” . It still sounds pretty improbable right?
I mean, when did you last see a data-analyst fighting off screaming groupies? Statistics isn’t even a cool branch of maths.
Real “pure” mathematicians wrestle with the fundamental …
Rookie or real player? The rise of Seth Priebatsch
June 22, 2011… Seth. Eighteen months after launching SCVNGR, the blue-eyed boy from Boston announced his second venture: LevelUp. LevelUp is part location-game, part daily deal site. The theory goes like this: sites like Groupon are great at attracting lots of customers; sites like Foursquare are great at keeping customers engaged and loyal. Combine the two and you should get millions of loyal, engaged (and profitable) users. Simple.
In practice, Levelup is a mobile app that offers users three …
For a fistful of dollars: the weird and wonderful world of Fiverr
June 6, 2011… with $50, we decided to find out exactly what money can buy. Ready?
Gangsta-tasks
Every epic venture must have an epic sound track. Fiverr was the perfect opportunity for Microtask to finally get an official tune (plus if there’s one thing rap needs, it’s more lyrics about document processing):
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcR9DQM6wV4&version=3&hl=it_IT]
Catchy, huh? For those who prefer their pop a little more “vintage”, how about a Microtask …
Down on MyFarm: gamification goes rural
May 26, 2011… manager of 1200 acres of prime agricultural land, and the unlikely overseer of real-life gaming venture: MyFarm.
Back to the land
In the US, FarmVille players now apparently outnumber real famers 60:1 (that’s one of those statistics that goes round the blogosphere so fast it must be true). Encouraged by the sudden popularity of virtual agriculture, the owners of the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire, UK have decided to let the web 2.0 generation have a go for real.
The idea …
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