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OCTOBER 7, 2007

ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteStart Country Channels ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain About Subscribe Contact Advertise Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Reports How To Bootstrap Your Startup Written by Matt Rogers / September 10, 2007 1:55 AM / 32 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » The first in a series of posts about how to run a startup and develop a product, written by guest author Matt Rogers

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 31, 2007

We finally are starting to hear what Google's anticipated alternative to Facebook as a platform. If you've talked to me in the past few months, you probably know that this is something I've been grappling with across a variety of projects/domains. I've talked about this issue in: Facebook Platform and Facebook as a Learning Platform. With Google's entry, there's a nice alternative to Facebook and the key word is "open.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Much is often said about the founders of a company, including on this blog. And they seem to receive a preponderance of the recognition for the ultimate success of an endeavor. Of course, it's obvious that these individuals are vital to a startup. However, I think that the people often overlooked are those key first hires. Yes, the management team has a great affect on an organization, regardless of its size or stage.

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

I love Internal Site Search data. It is a amazing peek into customer intent, which usually is quite elusive in our normal clickstream data. I had first written about the wonders of site search analysis in a June 2006 post: Are You Into Internal Site Search Analysis? You Should Be. It is also covered in detail in Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. Google Analytics's launch of internal site search analysis today is a great excuse to revisit the world of site search.

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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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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! | Main. | Investing in Groups - best practices of Angels » October 30, 2007. "God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe. Whether you like the architecture of Mies van der Rohe or not, this particular comment does make you stop and think.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I never made it to the Web 2.0 conference yesterday, and you know how I feel about that label :-). Anyway, I happened to be in San Francisco for a portfolio company board meeting and some other events. After a Nokia boat cruise with many of the team that launched the awesome Nokia Internet 810 tablet (I will get myself one of those), I had the opportunity to go to a MySpace party to celebrate the opening of their San Francisco office.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 27, 2007

I was on a panel yesterday at StartupLA. The event was a good event and I ran into a few folks that I hadn't seen in a while and meet a few new people. One thing that was interesting is that I'm finally starting to run into folks in Los Angeles who run in technology circles and who have blogs. This is something that I've been having a hard time finding.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 12, 2007

The first Web2.0 conference which I attended was in 2005, and that one had a very authentic feel to it. It's interesting to look back at notes from those sessions and the conclusions like "tagging is a short word, but requires a long explanation." By last year, the conference had grown up to become an extravaganza, for lack of a better descriptive term.

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 24, 2007

The Wall Street Journal has a good overview and recap of the negotiation process. Facebook is reported to have circa $150 million in revenue currently (and are launching their own advertising platform shortly). As a point of reference , Facebook’s revenue is worth 7.1x more on a price/sales basis than Google. Looking back at the last round of venture funding, Accel participated in the $25 million round at a whopping $500 million pre-money.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? | Main. | "God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe » October 03, 2007. We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! Do I hate to hear those words.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 13, 2007

as i have said before the big keep getting bigger and the low barriers to entry mean more and more small guys are fighting for crumbs. the only way to sustain is if dollars continue to flow from old media to new media and the pie continues to get larger. if it does not, watch out! clipped from news.yahoo.com. The catch, according to some, is that much of the money flowing toward the Internet is concentrated on a few dozen of the most popular sites.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 3, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 3, 2007. Amie St is the future. Ive been aware of Amie St for a while now -- heard the buzz, checked out the service a few times. Looked interesting, but I never spent too much time really thinking hard about what they were creating. The way it works is that all songs start out as free downloads and rise in price the more they are purchased (with a max of $0.98).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 25, 2007

After hearing at a recent CTO Forum meeting from Siderean about their relational navigation technology and various discussions with other folks on search, it's seeming like entity extraction is coming up everywhere. Today I saw John Udell's post Entity extraction everywhere. Through this post, I found Gnosis a Firefox plugin that will do entity extraction and highlight the resulting terms on the page.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. Yahoo unveiled new enhancements on Tuesday , Microsoft launched refined Live Search last week , and Ask upgraded to its "3D" user interface back in June. Of course, Google announced its "Universal Search" all the way back in May, touted by Marissa Mayer on their blog "to blend content from Images, Maps, Books, Video, and News into our web results."

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 25, 2007

The guys over at Nsyght have asked that I help spread the word about their “bookmark drive”: Nsyght is building what we hope to be a new type of social search, a search that is directly driven and personalized by your bookmarks. What does that mean? It means we only search what you tell us to by the bookmarks you submit. The more bookmarks, the more pages and sites we crawl.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Thoughts for New Angels | Main. | We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! » October 02, 2007. Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 11, 2007

It seems that everyday there is a new annoucement of a tiny startup being bought by a large company. Two days ago it was Jaiku being bought by Google and this morning CBS announced that it is buying Dotspotter , a 10 month old gossip blog. Put yourself in these entrepreneurs’ shoes – you launch a great product or service today, usage is growing, revenue is nil or minimal, and cocktail party chatter and buzz are at its highest.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 31, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 31, 2007. New Feedburner address for this site. [link]. Tags: feedburner. at 7:36 AM. 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.".

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. Will's post talks about lack of interest in working for startups here in Southern California, saying: we probably’d don’t have the: a) same support infrastructure (meet-ups, networking events, etc.); b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. What used to cost $1M now takes $100K. If that's actually true, then it creates New Rules Of Technology VC. In this post RWW talks about some of the new kind of approaches to funding: Y Combinator is creating tech companies with a tiny (10-20K) seed investment; Charles River Ventures started a Quick start program; Jeff Clavier launched a 12M fund for tech startups.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Great comic from [link] :

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 1, 2007

I am sure you remember the ebay-Skype deal where ebay coughed up $2.6b upfront for Skype and offered an earnout of up to another $1.7b for hitting performance numbers. Besides the value of the deal, what struck me most was that 40% of the total potential deal size was based on performance-based milestones. Fast forward 2 years later and in the day of reckoning it seems that eBay is only going to pay $530mm of the $1.7bb earnout (see Eric Savitz from Barrons post and press release ).

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Union Square Ventures announced blogged their investment in Tumblr yesterday. I set up a Tumblr account in early summer and it’s been silently collecting all my posts from TechBytes, my posts from Twitter, delicious links and Flickr public photos. It does give a good “global” snapshot of my online activity- which is a good thing. I’ve been grappling with posting something on Twitter and posting on TechBytes- but Tumblr captures both.

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Radiohead have taken their fate into their own hands - they’ve refused to sell their new album through iTunes (and apparently other online stores as well). I don’t think you can buy physical CDs either. Normally, I would cheer them on, but… The problem is, YOU CAN’T DOWNLOAD THE MUSIC. I put their release date in my calendar (I’m a pretty big radiohead fan).

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 16, 2007

I heard from DoCoMo, Vodafone and Nokia this morning (but Sling Media stole the show in the early afternoon). I wanted to highlight a few key points that jumped out at me: Smartphones represent LESS than 10% of the market in every western country except Italy. Smartphones are primarily used by males, over 35 earning circa six figures (except Italy).

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The Alarm Clock reported on our follow on investment into Mirriad last week and also picked up my recent post on RSS- highlighting one of our other portfolio companies- Magpie. Tomorrow, I’ve been asked to join a panel at Mashup Demo. Magpie are demoing their latest version of Brandwatch- hopefully there will be some prospective portfolio companies in the mix as well.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 22, 2007. Radiohead, freedom, artistry. Over at Alley Insider, Peter Kafka waxes poetic about the Radioheads "In Rainbows" experiment, correctly recognizing that the import of this event is not how much money Radiohead made from releasing their album with a pay-what-you-want model, but instead: " Radiohead is likely to make a nice sum from "In Rainbows," but the real advantage that its giveaway stunt has co

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 14, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 14, 2007. Secular Advertising Shift. New York Times : "Last year, Nike spent just 33 percent of its $678 million United States advertising budget on ads with television networks and other traditional media companies. That’s down from 55 percent 10 years ago, according to the trade publication Advertising Age.".

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 12, 2007. Facebook and Wikipedias Lovechild. Im biased but Jack did make a nice video for us: Tags: carmun , facebook , wikipedia. at 5:28 PM. 1 comments: Jaime. said. Awesome. Im fascinated with the short form website intro video right now. This has the right feel.

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