March, 2006

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Having too much money can be a curse, not a blessing

BeyondVC

Trust me, I love having well capitalized companies. However, having too much money can be a curse, not a blessing. More often than not, I see management lose financial discipline and avoid making hard decisions when capital is abundant and not scarce. To many executives, money does solve all problems. And yes, having money allows an entrepreneur to do many things with his business like hire more talent, scale the back-end infrastructure, and ramp up sales and marketing.

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Spencer Fry

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The next generation web, scaling and data mining will matter

BeyondVC

We are all enjoying the benefits that come with the commoditization of existing hardware and software infrastructure. It is true that it costs exponentially less to launch a business today versus five years ago. We are all smarter, broadband penetration is reaching critical mass, and open source and commodity hardware have become reliable alternatives to proprietary architectures and closed systems.

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Remember Long Term Capital?

BeyondVC

In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Grid 2.0

BeyondVC

The hype cycle for grid computing started many years ago, and today it is mostly relegated to uses in bioinformatics, financial services, and 3d modeling (think crash testing, oil discovery, etc.). With yesterday’s announcement, Sun is making this grid infrastructure available to anyone, anytime, and on demand at Network.com. As J onathan Schwartz points out , consumer plays have been driving the surge behind massively scalable web services.

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Eat when dinner is served

BeyondVC

There is an article in the Wall Street Journal (sorry-requires subscription) today on pre-emptive financings or financings that happen when a company is not actually looking for capital. It is common wisdom amongst the investment community for entrepreneurs to "eat when dinner is being served." In other words, companies should take cash even if they don’t really need it because you never know when the next meal will be served.