Occam's Razor
AUGUST 6, 2007
It is quite likely that your company is spending tons of time, energy, and dollars on web marketing efforts yet conversion rates (or ROI) are stuck in the two to three percent range. You are trying really hard to figure out how to improve the performance but you are stymied by the fact that there is ton of data and you have no idea where to start. Ms.
Genuine VC
AUGUST 10, 2007
About two weeks ago, I posted about seven coming digital uber-trends which are ripe for startup opportunity. Of the all the feedback I received from people about this post, it surprised me how much of it was focused and resonated around the second one, the internet’s facilitation of a green lifestyle. Coincidentally, it’s one area where I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently.
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BeyondVC
AUGUST 1, 2007
How about getting a QA job in Bangalore? Take a look at this line on a Saturday afternoon. There are over 1000 people in front of Xora’s (a fund investment) office. Sanjay Shirole, CEO of Xora , definitely runs a hot company in the wireless GPS space, but when I saw this picture I couldn’t have imagined that the people had come to do walk-in interviews for a couple of QA positions and not for autographs.
Jason Ball
AUGUST 20, 2007
Just in case you missed my post earlier this year, Oxford are running their 21st Century Entrepreneurship Competition : The Oxford University 21st Century Challenge Competition is a new and ambitious international entrepreneurship competition being run by the Said Business School, Oxford.We are looking for bold and innovative business ideas that can help to solve the key environmental, health and social challenges of the 21st Century.Entries are now invited into the following challenge tracks:•
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
aweissman.com
AUGUST 29, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Aug 29, 2007. End to end online ad provider? Brian Norgard wonders if its possible: "The mythical, “End-to-end,” solution is much discussed yet far from being realized. My best guess is that it will emerge from companies that have built tools themselves (or most of them for that matter).
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BeyondVC
AUGUST 17, 2007
I am sure there are alot of you who are frustrated Skype users since the service has been done over 24 hours. To be fair, the company has done a great job leading the marketplace with user signup and an incredible job with uptime of its network. Yes, this has been a pretty huge outage which is not fixed yet, but they were up for the last four years with very few problems.
BeyondVC
AUGUST 2, 2007
As I have said before , Nokia’s biggest competitor in the future may be Google. If Nokia doesn’t offer value added services and software on its phones, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft will. In a world of shrinking margins on handset hardware sales, finding every valuable cent per user per ad or selling services for monthyl revenue is incredibly important.
BeyondVC
AUGUST 1, 2007
I wrote about Club Penguin a few times in the past ( here and here ) and it looks like Mike Montgomery at Montgomery and Co was able to find an even better buyer than Sony, DIsney for $350mm in cash and potentially $350mm more in an earnout (see Paidcontent for more). That is pretty impressive for a company that raised money from friends, family, and angels and would not take any venture money despite my best efforts and many other VCs.
aweissman.com
AUGUST 27, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Aug 27, 2007. New York and early stage ventures. Roger Ehrenberg : "As both an active angel investor and entrepreneur, I can say one thing for sure: macroeconomic woes aside, the New York early-stage investment scene is vibrant, exciting, and full of possibilities.
aweissman.com
AUGUST 27, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Aug 27, 2007. Moved domains. From blogspot to www.aweissman.com Thanks. at 12:13 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow and Share. Tweet. Real Names Be Proof: twitter music usv words e: andy at aweissman dot com or andy at usv dot com "Great meals fade in reflection; everything else gains.".
aweissman.com
AUGUST 27, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Aug 27, 2007. Advertising on social media. John Borthwick says: "Ads are often blunt instruments that fail to offer value to a membership engaged in a dynamic conversation – targeting and metadata only get you so far." Greg Yardley, on the other hand, wonders : "But what if individual ad targeting gets really good?
aweissman.com
AUGUST 16, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Aug 16, 2007. Truism. Henry Blodget , at Silicon Alley Insider , speaks the truth about some online videos: "Everyone is jumping aboard the executive-video-interview bandwagon, which is too bad, because most executive video interviews suck. Why? Because who has 20-30 minutes to sit around watching glib, telegenic folks dodge questions?
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