Comments for Trends, Ideas & Venture Capital http://ideacapital.wordpress.com Musings about Mobile, Digital Media and Internet sectors Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:12:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Areas of Mobile VC Investment by Rajkumar http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/areas-of-mobile-vc-investment/#comment-11 Rajkumar Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:12:01 +0000 http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-11 hey,you are totally correct about what you have said i also felt the same i read a similar post in tech crunch also.totally your blog seems to be wonderful,i like to add your link in my blog.if you are interested you can visit my blog and if you like ,you can add my link in your blog.All the best for your future posts. hey,you are totally correct about what you have said i also felt the same i read a similar post in tech crunch also.totally your blog seems to be wonderful,i like to add your link in my blog.if you are interested you can visit my blog and if you like ,you can add my link in your blog.All the best for your future posts.

]]> Comment on Areas of Mobile VC Investment by thephotoshopper http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/areas-of-mobile-vc-investment/#comment-10 thephotoshopper Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:23 +0000 http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-10 ah i see... that is an interesting trend actually, that small to medium scale game developers usually seem to work alone or in tight knit groups. (i am referring to online flash games and small desktop games).. or am i mistaken? ah i see… that is an interesting trend actually, that small to medium scale game developers usually seem to work alone or in tight knit groups. (i am referring to online flash games and small desktop games).. or am i mistaken?

]]> Comment on Areas of Mobile VC Investment by Anupam Rastogi http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/areas-of-mobile-vc-investment/#comment-9 Anupam Rastogi Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:22:03 +0000 http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-9 @thephotoshopper, mobile gaming is hot indeed, but almost all iPhone app creators are small developers and are not venture funded (the chart is for startups that received Venture Capital funding). According to one of the articles that I cited (http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/2009/06/the-iphone-inspired-2nd-economy-over-100-million-goes-from-vcs-to-iphone-startups/), only 17 iPhone startups (compare with 50,000+ apps) are venture funded at this point. The gaming space is very exciting, but there are several challenges for a new startup in the space – it’s hard to get discovered, its a winner-takes-all market, and its very hard for a startup to deliver multiple hits (sounds a lot like the business of movie-making, doesn’t it?). Exactly the reason why so few gaming startups are VC funded. @thephotoshopper, mobile gaming is hot indeed, but almost all iPhone app creators are small developers and are not venture funded (the chart is for startups that received Venture Capital funding). According to one of the articles that I cited (http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/2009/06/the-iphone-inspired-2nd-economy-over-100-million-goes-from-vcs-to-iphone-startups/), only 17 iPhone startups (compare with 50,000+ apps) are venture funded at this point.

The gaming space is very exciting, but there are several challenges for a new startup in the space – it’s hard to get discovered, its a winner-takes-all market, and its very hard for a startup to deliver multiple hits (sounds a lot like the business of movie-making, doesn’t it?). Exactly the reason why so few gaming startups are VC funded.

]]> Comment on Areas of Mobile VC Investment by thephotoshopper http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/areas-of-mobile-vc-investment/#comment-7 thephotoshopper Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:04:34 +0000 http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-7 The category for gaming apps seems to be surprisingly small when compared to the fact that when I open up Apple App Store, over 90% of the "Featured", "What's Hot" and "New" apps are gaming apps. Why do you think new startups go for Content and Network Infrastructure line over Gaming? Social networking seems to be another popular domain... The category for gaming apps seems to be surprisingly small when compared to the fact that when I open up Apple App Store, over 90% of the “Featured”, “What’s Hot” and “New” apps are gaming apps.

Why do you think new startups go for Content and Network Infrastructure line over Gaming?

Social networking seems to be another popular domain…

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]]> Comment on Macro trends that underlie massive successes by Current consumer themes in Internet, media and mobile « Trends, Ideas & Venture Capital http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/macro-trends-that-underlie-massive-successes/#comment-3 Current consumer themes in Internet, media and mobile « Trends, Ideas & Venture Capital Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:18:24 +0000 http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-3 [...] can provide us a good framework to look for opportunities. We can cross-index these themes with the major macro trends and structural changes that I laid out in a previous post, to have a matrix that we can classify currently evolving [...] [...] can provide us a good framework to look for opportunities. We can cross-index these themes with the major macro trends and structural changes that I laid out in a previous post, to have a matrix that we can classify currently evolving [...]

]]> Comment on Review of current consumer themes in Internet, media and mobile by Evolution of Online Video offerings « Trends, Ideas & Venture Capital http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/current-consumer-themes-in-internet-media-and-mobile/#comment-2 Evolution of Online Video offerings « Trends, Ideas & Venture Capital Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:47:23 +0000 http://ideacapital.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-2 [...] of opportunity for new entrants that offer clear value to their consumers. I’ll apply my consumer themes framework to the Online Video space to look at where the key opportunities for innovation and investment [...] [...] of opportunity for new entrants that offer clear value to their consumers. I’ll apply my consumer themes framework to the Online Video space to look at where the key opportunities for innovation and investment [...]

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