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‘We have a lot more flexibility than traditional media groups. Being smaller we can be more responsive and be more irreverent than some of the bigger players.’
- 1995—Quad
- Technical support company.
- 1992—Adobe
- Introducing Acrobat to the UK market, met Dan Wagner.
- 1995—M.A.I.D
- Licensing M.A.I.D's technology and content to CompuServe, AOL, BT and NatWest.
- 2000—Dialogue
- Started ecommerce subdivision of Maid.
- 2002—Locayta
- Providing ‘search’ and content management technology solutions for e-commerce and corporate websites.
- 2007—HorsesMouth
- Co-launched pro-social mentoring website.
‘Within Brightstation Ventures I bring my knowledge and expertise to bear on new propositions, looking at how viable they are technically and how we commercialise them.’
‘We concentrate on the commercialisation of technology.’
‘Brightstation Ventures is a group of entrepreneurs investing money in technology-based businesses. It’s different because in the most part venture capitalists are disinterested professional investors with a different risk profile.’
‘In the UK, money is controlled by a small tight circle of people compared to the States. There are an awful lot of people involved in the process who are either ex-bankers, ex-accountants or ex-lawyers, none of which qualifies you to make a decision as to whether a piece of technology is going to be successful.’
‘The way I look at it is we’ve been selling the picks and shovels for people who want to get into the Web 2.0 gold rush and we’ve thought “Why don’t we do a bit of digging ourselves.”’
‘Brightstation Ventures is a product management company so some of the investments that it makes will contract Bright Station to deliver the technology platform.’
‘The ultimate game plan is to make sure every product we do successful.’
‘It means you can genuinely look at the best moment in time to do something as opposed to there being difficult third-party constraints.’
‘We have a lot more flexibility than traditional media groups. Being smaller we can be more responsive and be more irreverent than some of the bigger players can.’
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‘The ultimate game plan is to make sure every product we do successful.’
