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The three stages of every games platform 5 Jul 2013 | 07:15 pm
A while back I wrote that mobile gaming was about to reach its Playstation 2 moment (i.e. peak profitability). The recent Supercell deal has clearly tagged that point on the graph. Yet at the same tim...
My talk at the TELL series in London Business School 3 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
The folks in London Business School (LBS) kindly asked me to come in and talk at their TELL series about-well, basically everything. Their list of former speakers is outrageously good and you should r...
Ten reasons you should join SuperAwesome 20 May 2013 | 12:01 am
SuperAwesome was launched about four months ago. With a mix of organic growth and an acquisition, we’re now the biggest kids discovery platform in the UK, reaching over 8M 8-14yr olds. And we’re just ...
Kids: the next big thing 9 May 2013 | 10:05 am
Ten years ago (it seems like yesterday), we started building companies. I was talking about this to a group of MBAs the other night and I suddenly realised “we had an investment theme!”. This was a pr...
Looking for Warrior Jumpers 22 Apr 2013 | 12:51 am
You probably need to read the comic strip to get the reference. Sometimes you find people who join the team and their impact goes well beyond just what their core focus is. You find yourself asking th...
Meet Potato, the Palantir of marketing 17 Mar 2013 | 07:38 pm
Silicon Valley has a small handful of awesome-yet-secretive startups. Probably the most well known is Palantir, who do a lot of very cool big data stuff with all sorts of interesting companies. Howeve...
The new place 1 Mar 2013 | 12:12 pm
At some point I’ll have enough time to write about how we accidentally launched Box of Awesome the weekend I got married. And how twenty thousand kids jumped on the concept in about three days. But in...
When should games companies think about licensing? 29 Jan 2013 | 02:24 pm
I’m getting asked a *lot* about this topic lately. With the merchandising success of Rovio (Angry Birds), Mind Candy (Moshi Monsters) and Activision (Skylanders) it’s become clear that games can becom...
Notes from the Cork cyberbullying forum 23 Jan 2013 | 04:02 am
Last week I was the moderator of a panel about Cyberbullying in Cork. Organised by Sean Kelly (MEP) and featuring a range of experts including Patricia Cartes (Facebook), Aisling Parkes (UCC), Avril R...
Standing up for Enterprise Ireland 7 Jan 2013 | 01:10 pm
I’ve known Shane Ross since I was in Trinity College (in fact I’m pretty sure I voted for him as senator). He’s a very smart guy who certainly knows what it takes to start a business. But he’s missing...
