Author Archives: Doug Scott

Interesting Mobile Stats

Interesting Mobile Stats There are 500M iOS users, $10B paid out to iOS developers There are 1B android users, $5B paid to android developers. iOS has half the users but is worth twice as much (to developers) Doug

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Colin Willis – Hotspur Capital – VC

Colin Willis – Hotspur Capital – VC Where has wor Colin gone? We miss him lots:( He was every where and then he has had to do proper VC work……I know it sounds odd, normally they are just on holiday:):) Or playing cricket as that is how you think you know Colin….from the googley box….

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Gi Fernando – Angel Investor

Gi Fernando – Angel Investor No strange photo or strange story needed here…just look at that photo and make your own judgement:):) Too dodgy a criminal past as can be imagined.   Doug Ps Some of the above is untrue:) Gi is Founder at The Deep Group and Freeformers, Executive Producer at Dawn and Stranded,…

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Roads will only be for Driverless Ubers within 10 years

Roads will only be for Driverless Ubers within 10 years So Uber has now partnered with University of Arizona and Carnegie Mellon University to effectively create driverless cars: Similar to in Terminator ( hopefully the rest of the AI story will be different to Terminator ). Mix this with Uber Pool ( the ability to…

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Dylan Collins – Hoxton Ventures – VC

Dylan Collins – Hoxton Ventures – VC Once was in kids programs called Magic Roundabout. Dylan now lives near the Magic Roundabout commonly called Old Street Roundabout. If you do not understand then you need to spend more time watching kids TV, especially the older more creative stuff. Doug   Dylan is an accelerator, building…

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Ian Merricks – Fast Forward London, Accelerator Academy, White Horse Capital

Ian Merricks – Fast Forward London, Accelerator Academy, White Horse Capital Wanna be pop start –  star or tart, it was a misstype but amused me:) I actually thought Ian would make a better motor racing driver and for some reason Jenson Button came to mind. Jenson is nothing like Ian, but maybe Ian has…

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Thomas Jones – Charlotte Street Capital – VC

Thomas Jones – Charlotte Street Capital – VC Really Tom Jones has started investing in startups…bet you are shocked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrwO8b9iq34 Tom was not really born in Wales, but Australian…as you can see from my posts many Ozzies ( Ozzy Ozzy Oi Oi Oi ) are in the UK, that is simply bacause Oz is like…

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