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Content is King; Distribution is King Kong
I love the expression by which I titled this post, though I cannot take credit for it. That goes to Laurens Rutten, CEO of our portfolio company BoosterMedia, a leading network for cross-platform mobile games. The importance of digital distribution has been on my mind a lot lately, and bubbled up again last week as […]
Calling it Quits: Post-Mortem of a Seedcamp company
When I first met Stan, co-founder of tl;dr.io, he pitched me the ‘summary layer’ that he wanted to build on top of the internet, and, frankly, I just didn’t buy it. As a content company, I knew how tough it is to maintain that level of content, a certain level of quality, and get the […]
France’s latest social network reveals just how much trouble print media is in today
The past few years have been quite rough for print media around the world. Traditional print newspapers like New York Times have become the exception to the rule in their successful transfer to digital (even though it’s still losing revenue each year), while Newsweek has stopped publishing print altogether. France has had its own set […]