Professor VC
APRIL 11, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Friday, April 11, 2008. Babys All Grown Up. Its been a while since my last post and it appears I missed the entire month of March. Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. This got me thinking about my role in helping companies grow up.
aweissman.com
APRIL 6, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 6, 2008. Killer Apps. My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years: *Remote control *MTV circa 1980-84 *Curb-side check in *Caller ID *Email *Instant messaging *iPod 80 gig *EZPass *EpiPen *Metrocards on NYC subways *Suzuki method of teaching guitar *Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc.
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Genuine VC
APRIL 30, 2008
After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization.
Occam's Razor
APRIL 30, 2008
Know the difference between a Reporting Squirrel and a Analysis Ninja? One is in the business of providing data. One is in the business of providing, to use a old fashioned word, information. This one of the core reasons why most dashboards are "crappy", i.e. they are data pukes that provide little in terms of context and even less in terms of actionable value.
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
Eric Friedman
APRIL 24, 2008
I will be at Podcamp NYC this weekend – I went to the first one and it was great. What is podcamp? check it out. Podcamp NYC is a free “unconference” focused on New Media. Join us April 25-26 at Brooklyn Polytechnic to meet other New Media creators, learn, and to share what you know. Hope to meet some folks in person for the first time there!
Tim Keane
APRIL 14, 2008
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « The Secondhand Physician - or Just Go To The Meeting | Main. | Trust but Verify.or Always Make New Mistakes » April 14, 2008. Are You Ready to be Quantitative? Im in Ireland today in a meeting of a company board of which Im a member.
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Genuine VC
APRIL 30, 2008
After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization.
Jason Ball
APRIL 23, 2008
It’s earnings season on Wall Street and the news is very good: Amazon- Q1 profit up 29% Apple- Q1 profit up 36% Google- Q1 profit up 30% Broadcom – Q1 profit up 22%.
Eric Friedman
APRIL 22, 2008
Facebook recently added chat (finally) to the system and have been rolling it out slowly to all users. My first impressions have been positive, but my thoughts were captured perfectly by the kid in the back. She presents the follow challenges. 1. Admitting You Use It. 2. Anonymous Stalking is Over. 3. Because We Already Talk Too Much. 4. Facebook = Procrastinating. read the full descriptions in the Facebook post.
aweissman.com
APRIL 16, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 16, 2008. betaworks, vc. Paul Graham : The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity. And so it is in this case. There is a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup investing. Y Combinator funds startups at the very beginning. VCs will fund them once theyre already starting to succeed.
Eric Friedman
APRIL 21, 2008
The Webware 100 2008 Winners have been announced. For more coverage and the official post see webware. Compared to the 2007 list , there are some differences. Congrats to those that won!
Eric Friedman
APRIL 21, 2008
My friend Shivan pointed out this fact today via Search Engine Land : The Chinese Internet has surpassed the US in terms of overall users. According to BDA China (reported in USAToday) there are more than 220 million Chinese Internet users (17 percent of the population) compared with 216 in the US (71 percent). This is simply a function of the huge scale of the Chinese market, with much more growth to come.
Eric Friedman
APRIL 12, 2008
It is amazing how much data we carry around on a daily basis. This could be anything from storage on your cell phone, flash memory on an MP3 player, a laptop hard drive, or a portable gaming memory card. This got me thinking about a great way to interact with some of the readers of this blog – asking you the reader; How many gigs do you carry everyday?
Eric Friedman
APRIL 3, 2008
After reading a recent article about the ban on selling digital goods on eBay , except in the classified section, I began thinking about this question. What is the value of a social networking profile? When thinking about launching a product or service you want to reach the people who will not only use it, but also discuss it with others. Some call these early adopters “sneezers”, or “mavens”, or any other number of buzzwords – but the goal is to get word of mouth m
Eric Friedman
APRIL 2, 2008
There will always be wars between dueling hardware, software, platforms, websites and more. A few years ago the browser wars basically ended. Some may say it is still being waged but the recent shut down of Netscape marked the true end. The thought has been brewing in my mind for awhile about the “battles” being waged across different sites, platforms, operating systems, and other areas.
Eric Friedman
APRIL 19, 2008
BMW vs. Audi. (found via Delicious via here ).
Jason Ball
APRIL 20, 2008
If you’re in the Bay Area for the Web 2.0 Expo, here’s a list (which has a public Google Calendar as well) of updated, collected, filtered, processed, pre-selected, recommended expo-related events. Enjoy.
Jason Ball
APRIL 14, 2008
This is the eternal question every Londoner (or any urbanite) faces: You’ve missed the bus- do you walk to the next stop to try to catch it, or do you stay put and wait for the next one to come along ? There is a precise mathematical equation that can be used anytime you’re faced with this dilemma: The long and short of it is, if you walk to the next bus stop- chances are the bus will pass you by, and you’ll end up waiting even longer…so stay put.
Jason Ball
APRIL 9, 2008
The guys over at nsyght have been burning the midnight oil… they released a beta version of the social search engine today, and techcrunch has a full blown review. As Mike points out on the UK site: This tiny boostrapped startup from West London wants to take your bookmarks and social network and use that to create more relevant search results.
Jason Ball
APRIL 9, 2008
A great post over on Under the Radar on VC slang: VC vocab for those of you who are about to venture into, well, venture…and for those of you who could use the refresher: Star : A portfolio company that generates 5-10x ROI upon exit. Walking Dead/Zombie : A portfolio company that can only generate an ROI, equal to the amount of money invested into it.
Jason Ball
APRIL 8, 2008
Responding to criticism that the UK property market is crashing, Gordon Brown stated: "We’ve seen house prices rise by about 180% over the last 10 years and. they have risen by about 18% over the last three years, so a 2.5% fall. is something that is containable," Brown said. A quick check shows that Bear Sterns was up 150% over the last 10 years as at Dec 2007 ($90/share)… Then, the bottom fell out and the stock is trading down (87%) YTD ($10/share).
Jason Ball
APRIL 8, 2008
[Update, April 9] Just had a call from the guys at Jajah. They were very apologetic and stressed that they had not begun spamming their user base. Some background investigation is currently underway to determine how/where this message got sent…(watch it be my fault). Even if it did come from Jajah, a call to rectify definitely things puts it right in my book… Jajah is again my favorite voip service. – What is it with tech companies these days?
Jason Ball
APRIL 1, 2008
Continuing with the Startup Events theme , I thought I’d start posting what I’m seeing around Europe. Conor over at Argolon gave me the low-down on what’s happening on the green isle: Dublin has traditionally been the mobile dev centre here (Movidia, Newbay, Xiam, Puca, S3, Rococo etc etc) and I think that is still the case. Scattered around the country you have start-ups like Cubic Telecom and YouGetItBack in Cork, VoiceSage in Limerick, Nubiq in Waterford.
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