We’re still on the floor of Disrupt interviewing delegates, including Texan super angelRudy Gaza. We talk trends in venture capital as the cost of innovation decreases, what impact it’s having on venture capital trends and why the new A round is now between $500 – 1 million dollars, much lower than previous times when it was typically 5 -10million. Will it continue to decrease? And what will be the stopping point?...
Showing just how important social media is to the way we watch big events on TV these days, a study just published shows that yesterday’s Super Bowl was the subject of 4.5 million tweets. According to French social media monitoring serviceSemiocast, in the six-hour period around the event, there were 25% more tweets published around the globe than usual for the time period. Perhaps surprisingly, the majority weren’t from the US....
One of the best things about writing about fledgling businesses is charting their rise through the ranks from young upstarts to, well, mature startups. We first wrote aboutShutla couple of years back, just as the web-based enterprise was starting out. And we’ve kept tabs on the company since itlaunchedat The Next Web Conference in 2010. To give a quick recap of the story so far, Shutl was founded in 2008 by Tom Allason, with the service starting trading in December 2009....
Super shoes: Explaining athletics’ new performance-enhancing tech Nike’s new shoes In the2016 Olympic marathon, all three male medalists climbed onto the podium in the same shoes. They were a Nike prototype, later released as the “Nike Vaporfly 4%,” which are now almost ubiquitous on the feet of elite roadrunners. Then, in 2019, similar super-shoe technology hit the athletics track. A slew of Nike-sponsoredathletes, wearing Nike’s prototype track spikes, began running some astonishingly fast times....
In 1972 Don McLean was singing about driving big block Chevys, the VW Beetle overtook the Ford Model T as the all-time best selling car, and Brits could fuel their cars for just a penny a mile. For gasoline or diesel powered vehicles, fuel has never been as cheap as it was back then. However, thanks to a new specialist energy tariff, electric car drivers in the UK can charge their EVs and drive them for the equivalent of about 1....
