New Website

Iperium are launching a new website!!  Hence the lack of content on the current blog!

Watch this space and we will keep you updated with the coming developments…

The Team at Iperium

Barcelona 3GSM

Iperium will once again be contributing to the overcrowding in the local hostelries of Gaudi’s favoured city this year. We would love to meet anyone looking for career opportunities and also companies looking to expand their commercial and technical teams across the globe.

Steve – 0044 (0)7810 801130

Tim – 0044(0)7899 901909

David – 0044(0)7887 772455

Surely this is what Facebook is for….?

Facebook disables UK entrepreneur’s account Posted: 11 Jan 2008 05:16 AM CST UK entrepreneur Raj Anand, founded of kwiqq, has had his Facebook account disabled after he individually emailed all his friends and members of a Facebook group he runs. Anand recently launched an independent social network for Salsa dancers in Brighton and set up a Facebook group to support it. It was this group he was contacting. As he blogs today: I have spent god knows how many hours building my profile on Facebook. Inviting friends, building facebook applications and adding value to Facebook. Recommending this rather stupid social network to my clients and friends. The least I want to do is use the facilities to contact users on my network and tell them about things they are genuinely interested in.  ”Techcrunch UK – 14/1/08″

Viva Las Vegas!

The Iperium end of year trip is almost upon us…  We are combining business and pleasure to take in the sights and sounds of Las Vegas!  Whilst also going to see a certain Fight of the century – Floyd Mayweather Vs Ricky Hatton – tickets sold out in under 20 minutes and it should be an awesome spectacle.

Both fighters are at the pinnacles of their career and both fighters are undefeated – Mayweather 38-0, Hatton 44-0.  The bookmakers are definitely siding with Mayweather, but Hatton is in great shape and hasn’t travelled all the way to Vegas for the fun of it – unlike us, who’s wallets will undoubtedly be slightly lighter than when we left…

It’s innovative up North….

http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/NWStartUp20DEMO?

We at Iperium are delighted to support any venture that highlights the little known fact that entrepreneurial activity is not just confined to our overcrowded capital.

Sponsorship Annoucement….

Iperium are pleased to announce their ongoing sponsorship of a new site dedicated to the under published universe of the European start-up. We are working closely with Ivan Trajkovic on his new site www.europeanstartups.com , the site does exactly as is suggested, brings well written and intelligent analysis on tech start ups within Europe. Hopefully this site will help shine more light on the well created and innovative companies that are being created across Europe.

Still Laugh Out Loud Hilarious….

I am sure most people have heard these at some point, but I defy you not to laugh out loud at the sheer genius the human mind can come up with under pressure.

http://www.businessballs.com/familyfortunesanswers.htm

Rule Britannia….

“Social networks are more popular in the UK than in any other European country, with 24.9m Britons, or 78% of the UK online population, visiting a social network, according to comScore. The research firm estimates that UK social network users spent more time on them on average more than any other major European nation. The average UK visitor to a social networking site spent 5.8 hours in 23.3 visits social networking in Aug. This was much higher than in France, where the average was 2 hours in 16.8 visits during the month, and Germany, where social network users spent 3.1 hours in 13.8 visits on social networks in Aug. comScore warned that the averages could be misleading for marketers as it estimates that 80% of activity on social networks, including page viewing, can be attributed to only 20% of users.” With thanks to Marketclusters.

All hail the return of Radiohead….

Genius

Bubbly

“Goofy names, retread startup ideas, inexperienced entrepreneurs, free food—the WSJ does a nice job this morning laying out the gestalt evidence that we are in the midst of a second Silicon Valley bubble. Capping off the list of exhibits is none other than last month’s TechCrunch40 conference, which drew about 1,000 people (not counting the random booth babes).There is no question that we are seeing a lot of froth out there, which Mike’s been warning about for quite some time. You should see some of the unsolicited Website launches that get submitted to us every day here. Yesterday alone we received 17 submissions, including one for Hide Pink Shirt Guy. I’m not even sure what that is, but it is not a business.

But are we seeing a financial bubble here,or is there something else going on? There is certainly not as much money being thrown around (yet) as the last time around. While talk of a $10 billion or $15 billion valuation for Facebook feeds into the bubble theory, Facebook seems more like a lone exception. There are convincing arguments that it truly does represent a major new platform and thus deserves a platform-like valuation (there are also convincing arguments against that theory). Nevertheless, the clearest sign of a financial bubble in Silicon Valley would be if valuations across the board began to become divorced from reality. While valuations are certainly up, they are not yet in wacko territory.

Maybe Paul Graham has it right. It’s so cheap to create Web startups these days that we are going to be seeing a whole lot more of them. Many will be inane, redundant, or half-baked. But a few will rise up from the froth and create something lasting. Bubble or not, it’s worth keeping an eye out for those game-changers. We just might have to wade through a lot of junk to find them. “