MobHappy | Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology.

It’s with great sadness that I write this last post at MobHappy, with the announcement that my blogging partner and friend, Carlo Longino, died over the weekend, losing his long fight with cancer. He was only 39.
I’ve known Carlo since around 2003 when he was Executive Editor of The Feature, an early, brave blogging experiment, sponsored by Nokia. He managed to recruit a bunch of great writers and mobile visionaries, including luminaries such as Howard Rheingold...

Following on from last week’s post about the 30 Mistakes Tech Starts Make, I’ve followed this up with the mistakes that they make specifically when pitching to VCs.
Again this is based on many years of working with startups and seeing hundreds of pitches – many successful, but mostly not. It’s also worth pointing out that I’m writing specifically about VC investors here....

In my experience of mentoring, investing in, fundraising for, working with and for tech startups (probably 200 or so in total), here are 30 mistakes that I see repeated all the time.
While it’s famously hard to learn from other people’s experiences, it saves an awful lot of teeth gnashing if you can. It’s also just as difficult to figure out if any of these apply to you, which is why you should have a generous smattering of independent...

One of my deeply respected old AdMob colleagues – so respected I’m investing in his startup – is looking for a UK-based Director of Engineering. Topline spec is:
- Build the team – grow/lead a team of 5 awesome developers and designers....