Steve Bong is the founder of Bong Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator focusing on innovative new technology start-ups, based in Shoreditch, London.
I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER
¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had the majority of voting shares as well" -
Motivational poster at Bong Ventures London HQ.
I am dictating this sotto voce from the nerve centre of Operation True Blue at an undisclosed location in Whitehall STOP My assistant มาลัย (which means ' …
Why I'm hiring the BRAINS and BALLS of CONSERVATIVE 2.0
¡Bong! Welcome, visionary Rahul Sativa
"Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture."
- Mao Tse Tung, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1959)
There will soon be a new face at Bong Ventures. The UK …
Arise, Lord BONG
¡Bong! My helpful GNOMES will slay these PEERS
What is a vanguard role? It means taking the lead
- Enver Hoxha
Enterpreneurs!! Imagineers!! Emergent social nodes!! I bring you great news.
A New Britain is emerging - thanks to Conservative 2.0 and its Digital by Default thinking. The old elites based on profits, exports and industry and R&D are falling by the wayside as a …
Roast entrepreneur: Mmm, tastes Just Like Chicken
¡Bong! Google Glasses and The MIRACLE of the ALPS
"Thousands upon thousands of martyrs have heroically laid down their lives for the people; let us hold their banner high and march ahead along the path crimson with their blood!"
Mao Tse Tung - "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 318.
When I last filed an update with you, I was taking off …
Bong: My DIGITAL KINGDOM for a HORSE
¡Bong! My Travel Diary: All the fresh goss plus a soupçon of hoss
"Victory in guerrilla war is conditioned upon keeping the membership pure and clean"
- Mao Tse-Tung
Organization For Guerilla Warfare Chapter 5
MOCOA, COLOMBIA - Word reaches me from London that the snow is piling up on all sides, causing panic and giddiness. The snow is piling up on all sides here in rural Colombia too, with …
Baby Bong #businessmodel is my PRIDE and JOY
¡Bong! I'm incubating the next generation - LITERALLY
"In the Soviet suburbs of Hell and the blasted avenues of Mogadishu, I saw what our society could become"
- Peter Hitchens, The Daily Mail
The Bongster is summoned to a crisis meeting at No.10. Britain's skills shortage is top of the agenda. I enter the room, but I haven't even had time to place the large crate of one-litre …
Bong Broadcasting Corporation. Let ME replace Entwistle
¡Bong! Strictly Come Dogging means I should be Digital General
"Our purpose is to ensure that literature and art fit well into the whole revolutionary machine as a component part, that they operate as powerful weapons for uniting and educating the people and for attacking and destroying the enemy, and that they help the people fight the enemy with one heart and one mind."
- Mao Tse Tung. …
Catapults, subsidies, and benefits: Bongonomics explained
¡Bong! Our VC's on FIRE at Burning Man and the Paralytic Games
"Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it"
- Mao Tse Tung from Oppose Book Worship (1930)
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. Greetings, fellow entrepreneurs!
By the time you read this I shall be on the playa at the Burning Man …
BOYLE and BONG: The secret story of my OLYMPIC TRIUMPH
¡Bong! Getting social with Sir Timothy - picture exclusive
"People like me sound like a lot of big cannons"
- Mao Tse-Tung
When Danny Boyle rang me out of the blue wanting to devise the greatest ever Opening Olympic Ceremony, I was in tears of joy. The chance to work with the man who wrote Trainspotting and brought Bend It Like Beckham to the world's cinema screens was unmissable. " …
Up the ZIL LANE to the Beach Volleyball changing rooms with BONG!
¡Bong! Our social-webpreneur columnist gets his OLYMPIC on
"Young workers, peasants and soldiers learn while they work, and so adequate attention should also be paid to their work and study as well as to their recreation, rest and sleep"
- Mao Tse Tung: 'The Youth League In Its Work Must Take The Characteristics of Youth Into Consideration'; a talk on receiving the Presidium of the …
My part in the GREATEST IPO SUCCESS of ALL TIME
¡Bong! Chewing the face off the Facebook
[The founder of Shoreditch's leading VC investment boutique has been helping Facebook with its IPO - Ed]
After a month in California on special business, during which I couldn't blog here or tweet, I returned to The Roundabout on Monday to hear that a naked man has been found eating the face off another naked man in the street …
Standing NEXT to an HTML coder is like standing NEXT TO GOD
¡Bong! Give me the boy
”The New Aesthetic has the ‘scenius’ of London’s Silicon Roundabout to support it. These people are working creatives of Bridle’s generation, with their networked tentacles sunk deep in interaction design, literature, fashion and architecture. If you wanted a creative movement whose logo is a Predator supported by glossy, …
CAPITALISM without PROFITS - Welcome to the Instagram Era!
¡Bong! Let's put Fraud Laws on the scrapheap - where they belong
Doubters, shut your mouths now - and nail them shut. Two great pieces of news from the US have validated Silicon Roundabout as the pulsating heart of a new British economy. And a whole new way of doing capitalism.
Firstly, Facebook bought Instagram for $1bn. Instagram sounds like a coke dealer who turns up very quickly indeed - …
TONIGHT, Let's ALL MAKE LOVE in SHOREDITCH
¡Bong! Waxing philosophical ... with morphine and Thai hired help
[It takes more than severe first-degree burns from a drug-related snowboard accident to keep our Tech Venture Capitalist down. This week finds him recuperating, and in a reflective mood - Ed]
Where's the Bong? I've been away - but only to hell and back. Let me explain.
It was all going so well in the sunshine at Tignes. The …
Snowboards and BIG DATA for WORLD PEACE
¡Bong! You pay, I save the day. Simples!
[After a minor accident snowboarding in Tignes this week, Mr Bong has submitted a shorter column than usual. Thank the Lord - ed.]
Food Fight
Fab.com's Chief Creative Officer
There was the usual kvetching from backward-looking naysayers and cynics after Wired covered the Shoreditch Tech scene this week. The reporter disclosed …
Take your hands off me - I'm a tech VC superstar!
¡Bong! Hotspot hobos tussled with the wrong fellow
Effendi, entrepreneurs! The Bongster is back from Texas! Every year, the brightest talent in Shoreditch's vibrant tech scene swaps the workspaces and mentor-ins of N1 and E2 for the sweet smelling grass of Austin, Texas, for SXSWi. And so did I.
As the founder of ¡Bong! Ventures, I am the enabler behind some of the best-known …
