I tend to always be justifying valuations of companies way ahead of the market. Over 2 years ago, BEFORE Microsoft invested in Facebook, I wrote this blog post, valuing Facebook at $10bn. Shortly thereafter, I was vinnycated (pun intended!) when Microsoft subsequently invested in Facebook at a $15bn valuation. In the Facebook post, I analyzed [...]

I found this video on my good friendRyan Spoon’s blog. Definitely needed to share it with my readers. It’s a must watch!

It’s great to see other young startups raising money in this tough economic environment. Cape Town based ChessCube just raised $1.25m in funding from VenFin and are looking to take the online chess market on with some really innovative products. Chess remains one of the most popular online games and ChessCube is currently working on [...]

I’m honoured to be this month’s cover story in Entrepreneur Magazine (SA). Many thanks to Juliet Pitman for the great write-up. It also gave me the perfect opportunity to test out Scribd – which is an amazing service that allows you to share PDF’s and other documents. Here is the article below, using Scribd to [...]

There are two models for any online business, either the user pays or someone else does… We conducted a survey at Web 2.0 expo earlier this month, and here are the findings: * 78 percent of respondents believed the freemium model will weather the economic downturn, compared to 27 percent who put their faith in [...]