there was any ever risk of us taking ourselves too seriously, Baz (Brian Collins) sent me this picture of our team to use for our latest BBC piece. The response I got after forwarding it to the BBC was, “I’m not sure that would work without explaining who everyone is in the picture”. And so [...]

The Auctomatics are currently back in their respective homelands, which means we get fed. Harj’s observation below made me giggle, because that’s what the past few months have been like. [13:32] harjeet: ok chaps, time for some lunch[13:32] harjeet: mummy’s chicken[13:32] harjeet: its not quite cereal[13:32] Kulveer: lol[13:33] harjeet: but close [13:33] Kulveer: yeah i’ve [...]

Another excellent successful summary from James at Trendcatching: “Having a human being manifested in a social media site helps in a number of ways. It helps to “make meaning” – the site becomes more than just a load of code on a server designed to make money for VCs. It’s easier to create “social value” [...]

When the news feed first launched, I thought it was a brilliant idea. Now, not so much. I’ve noticed recently that some of the friends I really want to stay up to date with, have removed themselves from the feed via the privacy settings, which is understandable. Except, if you (like me, and I suspect [...]

I have a savings account with ING Direct. I got a funny email a couple of days ago: “Dear Mr Taggar We’re writing to advise you that this month the Bank of England raised the base rate from 4.75% to 5.0%. At ING Direct we want to offer all our customers a consistently good rate. [...]

“Welshman Michael Moritz, senior partner at Sequoia Capital on the hub that is Sand Hill Road, had the vision to nurture and champion Google, PayPal, Yahoo! and most recently YouTube, an $11.5m investment which reportedly returned $495m – a forty-threefold increase in just over a year. Such maths has created a less hard-edged version of [...]

Jools tells me there’s no one USP of this event (Friday 8th Dec, 10pm, @ No. 5 Cavendish), with Syed from The Apprentice, 1 millionaire 22yo, and 3 CEOs on the cards so far… It is indeed a pretty impressive line-up, with me particularly wanting to meet James Murray-Wells. On a completely unrelated note, I [...]

I loved the line, ‘This guy is a disruptive force unto himself’ from this. © Kulveer Taggar 2007

I just got this in an email from Tom Batten. “I’ve relayed this story to several folks already. But, its anentrepreneur’s classic and anytime I get discouraged I think of it. A former Bain colleague and good friend of mine, David Morton (foundedLetslink.jp – at one time a legitimate competitor to Mixi) has an unclewho [...]