entrepreneur venture
The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment Reigate-based eSure was launched in the heady dot-com boom of 2001 as a joint venture between entrepreneur Peter Wood (founder of Direct Line) and banking giant HBOS, offering insurance on the internet and over the phone. [27 Nov 2007]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Niklas Zennström may have sold Skype to eBay in 2005 but that wasn't the end of the story for this serial entrepreneur. His latest venture has pushed him back up the Agenda Setters rankings. In May it picked up $45m in funding from venture capital... [12 Oct 2007]
Search gurus see big bucks in the enterprise
News The panellists said they were impressed with search engines like ZoomInfo.com, the job candidate search engine, and Mahalo, the search engine started by publishing entrepreneur Jason Calacanis that uses human-created results for the most popular... [29 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ling faces the dragons
Comment She is a self-promoting, fearless, energetic entrepreneur.silicon.com knows this not only from her homepage (one of the most crammed you will ever see) but from an email from her a year or so ago. They typically want some money for a certain stake... [19 Feb 2007]
Pixel millionaire makes his next move
News Alex Tew, the 22-year-old entrepreneur behind The Million Dollar Homepage which took the web by storm last year, has launched his latest venture - again involving one million dollars and the sale of pixels. [07 Dec 2006]
'Leave Mac-making to the experts'
News The report was slammed by readers such as Eric Bartels, an entrepreneur from the Netherlands who said: "The Gartner report shows how out of touch most business analysts and venture capitalists are with what really matters in this age of branding. [26 Oct 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 12
Comment Afterwards go to meet Sage Brennan - another of dot-com entrepreneur Shak's friends. Afterwards, I cross the road to meet TR Harrington - another bright young entrepreneur, with a past in Silicon Valley. [21 Jun 2006]
Cuban backs corporate fraud exposé website
News Entrepreneur billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in a new journalism site focused on exposing corporate fraud. The unusual partnership of new-age entrepreneur and veteran journalist began over the internet. [15 Jun 2006]
Will's Web Watch: At the heart of web 2.0
Comment And certainly this "built to flip" approach works in fostering the kind of serial entrepreneur culture that always signals a period of rapid innovation. Rekindled interest from venture capital firms also helps. [12 May 2006]
Skype backers walk away with awards
News Bango CEO Ray Anderson was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, while the teaming up of Vodafone and Fujitsu Services saw them win in the Partnering for Innovation Award. Index Ventures, the venture capital company that backed voice over IP... [22 Feb 2006]
Look to the users for tech innovation, says MIT chief
News Technology innovations are more likely to come from someone's living room than from the corporate boardroom or even an entrepreneur's garage, according to Frank Moss, the newly named director of the MIT Media Lab. [17 Feb 2006]
From boom to bust and back again
During the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, billions of dollars in venture funding were thrown at any entrepreneur, with little or no market experience, who had a business idea to sell. Internet venture, followed suit a year later in March 2000... [29 Nov 2005]
Update: Barry Diller group bids $1.85bn for Ask Jeeves
News The internet conglomerate, which is headed by media entrepreneur Barry Diller, said today it is hoping to move aggressively into the web search market through the deal and pointed to growth in the online advertising market as another major... [21 Mar 2005]
3GSM: easyMobile March launch to 'make unprofitable profitable'
News Serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou has revealed the thinking that has gone into the creation of easyMobile, the low-cost mobile phone offering due to launch next month in the UK - but he has given away few details on the venture's pricing... [18 Feb 2005]
Welsh billionaire does Marconi VoIP deal
News Sir Terry Matthews, co-founder of Newport Networks and the technology entrepreneur who became Wales' first billionaire, wouldn't be drawn on Newport's chances of cashing in on the 21st Century Network project but indicated that the deal with... [24 Sep 2004]
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