Author Archives: Jessica Furseth

Megabuyte, February 2013. Original article here (£). The Early View Is London the hottest place in the world to be a start-up? There is a distinct buzz of optimism surrounding the London start-up scene. Yes, we could do with more money to create more opportunities, but everyone we’ve spoken to agree that London has comeContinue reading “Is London the hottest place in the world to be a start-up?”

Published in Megabuyte, January 2013. Original article here (£). The Early View London startups: The fundraising experience London is rapidly emerging as one of the best places in the world to be a startup. Even if opinions differ on the details, most people in the community seem to agree on this fact. “I think LondonContinue reading “London startups: The fundraising experience”

Published in Viator (here), 2013.  Literary pubs of London: A beer-soaked history The two thousand year old city that is London is a living, breathing history book. While Samuel Johnson was right: “There is in London all that life can afford”, often what we locals like doing most is to haul up in the pub.Continue reading “Literary pubs of London: A beer-soaked history”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Land of plenty: London for startup investors The London startup ecosystem now constitutes at least 3,000 tech-focused companies, but possibly as many as 5,000, according to research by Charles Armstrong, the ethnographer and business innovator. Armstrong runs Trampoline Systems in Shoreditch, an award-winning social analyticsContinue reading “Land of plenty: London for startup investors”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 2) It was Twitter that first alerted the world when a passenger plane landed in New York’s Hudson river back in 2009, not the mainstream news outlets. From an industry segment perspective you’d think Twitter was in competition with theContinue reading “Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 2)”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 1) “You may have heard something about how our industry is ‘in flux’ due to all this ‘new media’ and the ‘changing landscape’. You know, ‘the internet’.” Ann Friedman wrote this in the Columbia Journalism Review about the publishing industry,Continue reading “Content Monetisation: Patchwork solutions (Part 1)”

Megabuyte, November 2012. Original article here (£). The Early View Real time data: Right here, right now Quick, straightforward and in real time – that’s how we need our data in order to make optimal use of it. But as we get better at gathering information, feeding it back to those who need it becomesContinue reading “Real time data: Right here, right now”

Lionheart Magazine, Adventure issue, 2012. Original article. Down the rabbit hole I don’t know when I changed my mind, but it happened somewhere between the park and the pub. I didn’t want to be with this guy, because I was so raw and fresh from the last one I loved; it takes so long toContinue reading “Down the rabbit hole”

Published in Viator, 2012. Original article here. The Moscow Metro: The People’s Ballroom In a city as rich in monuments and history as Moscow, you may be surprised to find you have to head underground for what is arguably the best attraction of all. The metropolitan public transport system of the Russian capital is oneContinue reading “The Moscow Metro: The People’s Ballroom”

Published in Viator, 2012. Original article here. On the real hippie trail in San Francisco “Are you looking for a restaurant?” I look around and find a little Chinese man smiling at me. You cannot stand on a San Francisco street looking uncertain for long before someone will offer their assistance (or alternatively, ask forContinue reading “On the real hippie trail in San Francisco”