We use Google Apps Premier to host Fubra’s e-mails, and on the whole I love it – I get a massively reduced level of spam into my inbox, and searching out old mails is incredibly fast. However, it does lack some of the flexibility of our old internal postfix based system, and this became apparent [...]
Archive | business RSS feed for this section
Summary of the new Companies Act 2006
A new companies act was introduced in 2006, that has been gradually phased in over the last 3 years, becoming fully operational on the 1st October 2009. The full act of parliament is over 700 pages long (in PDF form), so I’ve decided to try to highlight some of the key points / changes in [...]
Working with Government APIs
It may have been a long time coming, but I have to say the UK Government has now made pretty good progress when it comes to making their services available online – and we have taken advantage of this with our online accounting system, Clear Books. Clear Books integrates with a number of Government APIs, [...]
Cloud Hosting Providers
Over the past year or so there has been a massive surge in the amount of companies offering Cloud Hosting services. In this post I’m going to outline the key players. Go Grid Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, and CloudFront) Google App Engine Mosso Slice Host Media Temple Flexiscale Joyent There are also some Cloud [...]
Fubra Investment Roundup Feb 09
Since the summer of 2008, we’ve invested in a number of start-up companies. We’ve been looking for businesses that compliment our own, and specifically where we could leverage our existing assets and benefit from the economies of scale. As I’ve mentioned before, we look for people with a unique idea, who are prepared to work [...]
How to invest in a UK Limited Company
Once you’ve found a limited company to invest in, the next step is to complete the legal work required. So what’s involved? Generally the process is as follows (where company refers to the company receiving investment): Agree the terms of investment, and make a contract / shareholders agreement based on this. Check through the company’s [...]
Great British Businesses
With all the bankruptcies and job losses of recent months, and as we watch sterling slide against all major currencies, you’d be forgiven for thinking that UK plc is heading for the economic scrap heap. And in many ways it is – just look at our total government and personal debt, and the predicted budget [...]
iPhone over the air sync with Google Calendar
We’ve been desperate for a centralised calendar solution that can sync with all our desktop PCs and iPhones for a while now, and yesterday one of our developers, Matt, found a solution for us. It combines the following technologies: Google Calendar iCal calaboration Nuevasync iPhone MobileMe Essentially Google Calendar is used to provide a central [...]
Business Angel Investments
Part of our strategy at Fubra is to invest a portion of our cash in business start-ups. In this post, I’m going to give you a few inside “secrets” as to our thinking when companies approach us for funding. If, after reading this, you think we sound like a good match then you should get [...]
Cash is king (and always was in my opinion!)
There is an interesting article in this week’s Economist, All you need is cash, which talks about the new rush by businesses to accumulate cash in contrast to the massive leveraging that has taken place over the past few years. Of course, not all companies took on huge loans to expand, and the ones who [...]
Subscribe / Connect
Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to receive updates.
