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Daily Archives for Wednesday, July 2012

Lynch starts tech fund in London

Mike Lynch and his top team seem to have already left HP and are starting their own tech fund.

Sadly it is based in London and is looking at global opportunities.

Hope it has some fire power for Cambridge, UK.

Written on 25 July 2012 by Philip under Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Yahoo! offers Mayer “100m reward to revive the company

The title comes from an article in the DT on 20 July 2012.

It breaks down the reward of which only $1million is salary.

Mayer is estimated as having made $300m in her career in Google.  The great benefit of being the 21st employee of a firm with a generous option scheme which hit the big time.  Generous options help build great companies?

Written on 25 July 2012 by Philip under Uncategorized with No Comments

Transformation comes from universities, not industry

Great comment and discussion in this interview by Robert Scoble of two people, the founder and CEO of Nicera.
Nicera was funded by $50milllon of VC capital and has just been sold for over $1bn.
“Transformation does not come from industry, but universities (in this case Stanford)”; starting at time 16:45 but watch the whole interview to see it in context.
Another great Robert Scoble interview – youtu.be/v6CyHhJKSTQ

Written on 25 July 2012 by Philip under Uncategorized with No Comments