Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 25, 2008. Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! How are public SaaS companies doing in such a volatile market? To answer this question, I have created the SaaS 13 Index, defined as the sum of the market cap of the 13 pure SaaS vendors quoted on the Nasdaq.
Jason Ball
FEBRUARY 16, 2008
I joined the Qualcomm Ventures Europe team earlier this month. Qualcomm, Inc ( NASDAQ: QCOM ) announced their European fund last May , in addition to Qualcomm Ventures in the US, China and India. I’ll be focusing on European startups (both early and later stage) in the following sectors: mobile application/platform software developers, handset components, network infrastructure and core technologies (semiconductor, battery, plastic electronics, etc.).
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Professor VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Buyers Remorse. Wikipedia (where else would you look.) defines Buyers Remorse as "an emotional condition whereby a person feels remorse or regret after a purchase" and "a natural human reaction, rising out of a sense of caution". I certainly remember the feeling after buying my first house.
Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
It will soon be a year of working at Google and milestones are always a good time for introspection. I have a lot on my mind but there was one thing in particular that I wanted to share with you all: What it is has been like working at Google. Interesting, fun, surprising, insightful, inspiring, impactful, and more such words. This post shares that experience.
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
BeyondVC
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Chris Anderson does a nice job of summarizing the rise of the "free" business model starting with the Razor/razor blade to the world of the web where he argues that all services eventually get priced at their marginal cost. And as Chris rightly describes, that price is quickly going to zero in a world of technology where Moore’s Law continues to hold and where storage costs are declining rapidly.
Tim Keane
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Reducing Variability for First-time CEOs | Main. | Theres Only a Test if you Sign Up for It » February 25, 2008. Ideas Are Easy.but execution is hard. Its axiomatic that a bunch of bright people can dream up any number of ideas for startups.
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Jason Ball
FEBRUARY 24, 2008
A comment was posted earlier in the week asking what events are relevant for new arrivals in London looking to get involved in the venture/start-up comunity. I was looking for the same in 2004 and posted a short list in 2005. Here’s a revised short list of VC-related events in and around London, no particular order: Regular events : Internet People (no link).
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship. For golfers, Ben Hogans Five Lessons is a classic. While the golf courses and equipment have certainly changed over the five decades since this was published, this tutorial is still relied upon by professionals and amateurs worldwide. As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepren
Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
You know exactly what is necessary in order for your company to achieve Web Analytics 2.0 greatness. You attend a conference and hear all the speakers share deep insights – that ends up depressing you rather than exciting you. At the end of one of my speaking engagements you come up and say " Thanks Avinash, that was really great, you've opened our eyes.
BeyondVC
FEBRUARY 1, 2008
I got an email from George Cigale, CEO of Tutor.com , yesterday to check out the New York Times article on his company’s service (full disclosure-my fund is an investor in Tutor.com and my partner Dan is on the board). The article, " On Demand, On Time and for a Fee, an Army of Tutors Appears ," highlights Michelle Slatalla’s experience with Tutor.com’s service where her two daughters were able to get instant homework help by going to Tutor.com, logging in, and clicking
Tim Keane
FEBRUARY 18, 2008
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Selling to Elephants (and bureaucratic ones at at that!) | Main. | Ideas Are Easy » February 18, 2008. Reducing Variability for First-time CEOs. Id like to focus on one part of a post at Redeye VC , by Josh Kopelman.
Jason Ball
FEBRUARY 16, 2008
The number one thing that jumped out at me during the conference was Google’s report that there are 50x more searches originating from the iPhone than any other mobile handset. Just to put that in perspective there are 4 million iPhones in the wild compared to 3 billion other mobile devices. This goes hand in hand with O2′s report that 60% of U.K. iPhone users are sending or receiving more than 25 MB of data a month- which is unheard of on other handsets.
aweissman.com
FEBRUARY 23, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Feb 23, 2008. Email, Microsoft, Yahoo. There is one way that a Microsoft - Yahoo merger makes very important sense, and that area has as its base email. Yahoo mail, according to Wikipedia , has 260 million users. Microsoft Hotmail looks to have 280 million users. Putting aside all the chatter about search, display ads and content (total distraction that falls right into Googles hands), these are hugely importan
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 4, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 04, 2008. The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). 2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com,
BeyondVC
FEBRUARY 1, 2008
What a great move by Microsoft! This has been floating around for awhile and the last time I wrote about it was in May of 2007. Anyway, I thought I bought at the bottom for Yahoo months ago in which case it fell another 25% from there. When I saw the news this morning I was quite happy to sell my shares and make a slight profit. As we all know when it comes to the Internet and advertising, scale matters.
Tim Keane
FEBRUARY 4, 2008
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « When Youre Right. | Main. | Selling to Elephants (and bureaucratic ones at at that!) » February 04, 2008. Do You Ask This Question.when youre hiring for your startup? "Am I selecting the right candidate by using performance based criteria rather than judging the candidate by their interviewing skills?
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
aweissman.com
FEBRUARY 7, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Feb 7, 2008. MySpace scaling revenues. MySpace is a service that has tremendous benefit and utility to its users, and in terms of an efficient, scalable business, is wildly underrated in the tech industry. Facebook et al seem to get more attention and have more sex appeal, which I think works to MySpaces advantage.
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