SoCal CTO

JUNE 19, 2007

From Ask the VC - What are typical compensation numbers?

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BeyondVC

JUNE 27, 2007

I was in two board meetings recently, and I was shocked at myself when I seemingly gave contradictory advice to two companies. On the one hand, I told the first company to do whatever it takes to land that big account for the quarter, and on the other hand, I told the second company to push harder for a higher price or to walk away. Shouldn’t you always do whatever it takes to land a customer and continue building the pipeline?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2007

This probably impacts a minority of web analytics practitioners, normally only those with large websites with millions of page views per month / week / day. I know that there are lots of you out there. :). When you are generating that much data from your website with your javascript tag based solutions there are a couple of "delightful" problems: It starts costing you lots of money because most javascript tag based solutions are pay for play (seems fair, it costs them money to collect

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Jason Ball

JUNE 13, 2007

Now this is pretty cool. Sixty of the hottest and most respected names in popular music, like Travis, Amy Winehouse, Stereophonics and more, will play gigs at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. The only way to get tickets is to… » Read more on Vox.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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aweissman.com

JUNE 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 28, 2007. Who Participates in Social Media. Fascinating chart from Business Week showing what people are doing online: They dont describe the chart as "social media" - but looking at the online actions listed (creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, inactives) seem to be a decent representation of activities associated with new Internet media/content, and of course all media is becoming social m

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, June 18, 2007. Save the planet! The earth is warming-up - so for those who dont have a Prius yet, you can download this small application for your PCs: it will optimize the power on your machine and save energy.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 27, 2007

I was in two board meetings recently, and I was shocked at myself when I seemingly gave contradictory advice to two companies. On the one hand, I told the first company to do whatever it takes to land that big account for the quarter, and on the other hand, I told the second company to push harder for a higher price or to walk away. Shouldn’t you always do whatever it takes to land a customer and continue building the pipeline?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Thrilled is perhaps understating it, I am giddy like a schoolgirl. There I said it. It has been such an amazing journey to write the book, and for it to come up almost exactly a year after I started this blog. All the hard work seems to be worth it when I hold my third child in my hands.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 20, 2007

I signed up for LinkedIn in mid-2003, and since then I have not been very active on the service other than accepting invites as they came to my inbox. Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed a significant increase in the number of requests from friends and colleagues and interestingly most of them are not from the technology industry. It is clear to me with over 10mm users worldwide that LinkedIn has crossed the proverbial chasm.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. However, while getting started with thousands of users is cheap, scaling to significant numbers will require some dollars. The good news for you and for venture investors is that your buck can go alot further today versus yesterday not only because of the commoditization of infrastructure but also because the venture debt market is a

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BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. However, while getting started with thousands of users is cheap, scaling to significant numbers will require some dollars. The good news for you and for venture investors is that your buck can go alot further today versus yesterday not only because of the commoditization of infrastructure but also because the venture debt market is a

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Intellectual Property Covenant Warrant Equity 60

Jason Ball

JUNE 12, 2007

Marc Andreessen nails it again : How VCs spend an awful lot of their time, and why you should feel sorry for them: My friends who are VCs seem to spend a surprising amount of their time working with their failing companies. The reason goes right back to the definition of a VC’s ideal investment: their winners are succeeding — they don’t need very much help.

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Jason Ball

JUNE 3, 2007

Introduction. It’s almost that time of year again- the annual “Do I keep.mac, or do I leave it” decision. I’ve had a mac email address since the iTools days when it was all free. After years of paying my mac tax, I’ve decided to leave.mac and migrate to my own domain (hosted within my gmail account). Migration. Google lets you manage your own domain effortlessly.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 22, 2007. Restructuring Education. I found some great thoughts at elearnspace : Restructuring Education Love this quote by Clay Shirky : "The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the society they live in.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 21, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 21, 2007. Ad serving is officially a commodity. Well, this has probably already been the case for years, but in the past two weeks: * Openads , the "free, open source ad server," announced a $5mm funding , in part to become an open advertising platform. Their core products, Openads 2.o (formerly phpAdsNew ) and Openads 2.3, are licensed open source under the GPL.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 11, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 11, 2007. Half of the ad network story. My friends at Lotame processed their one billionth ad transaction this weekend and will quickly double that. At the same time, Jeremy Liew writes about content specific ad networks that in effect are creating synthetic ad channels: "Synthetic channels, like the channels on the big portals, have an advantage in this respect.

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