Titan Gaming just has just raised $1m from a bunch of angels for its tournament gaming platform. I am deeply sceptical about this model for hardcore gamers. The past is littered with tournament gaming failures such as...

I chaired a very august panel of games industry figures at the inaugural Investec Digital Media Conference last Thursday. The conference brought together leading digital media companies together with a range of investors and was illuminating and...

Following my posts this week on Four reasons why VCs won’t fund games companies and Seed, Series A, Series B: Why the wrong funding can kill your company, I’ve just come another excellent post which I urge...

Not all investors are the same. A seed investor is looking for something very different from a Series B investor. Get the wrong investor for your stage of development, and it can kill your business stone dead....

Alice Taylor (of @wonderlandblog / Channel 4 fame) tweeted last week to ask why games companies couldn’t get VC funding in this country. I promised an answer in the blog, and here it is. The basic answer...

Are we really seeing a dearth of venture capital money? There’s still plenty of venture capital firms around, but why aren’t they spending? Most VC funds have a seven-ten year cycle. They raise money from limited partners,...

There is some good advice in the Wall Street Journal on how to pitch to VCs. Among the suggestions: Focus on the business opportunity, not the technology/your specific solution Introduce the other members of their team and...