BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

While reading the Wall Street Journal this morning, the Facebook story caught my eye. Facebook has clearly built a huge community and is one of the leading social networks on the web. However, I was mystified about the backlash the company received about its new service allowing users to better keep track of their friends and what they are doing. On the surface it seems like the company was trying to make it easier for their users to keep track of their friends’ whereabouts and online acti

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Planning for a Harvest | Main. | Reducing Startup Risk: A Video Comment » September 21, 2006. Who Gets To Break The News That Your Puppy is Ugly? Im at the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds meeting in Rochester NY today.

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Spencer Fry

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

As you know, talent is the lifeblood of any company. Given that, I have written a number of posts on hiring (see here and here ). I recently saw Joel Sposky’s (Joel on Software) post on hiring great developers and thought that I would share it with you. He makes a number of great points and I have extracted a few pearls of wisdom for you: "The great software developers, indeed, the best people in every field, are quite simply never on the market." "Numerically, great people are

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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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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

As an entrepreneur, you are most likely spending most of your time building your product and getting it to market. in other words, you are focusing on the big picture which is what you should be doing. I do want to share with you a couple of anecdotes about not forgetting to take care of the little things – little things like keeping proper files and records.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

Congratulations to George Cigale and his Tutor.com (full disclosure – portfolio company and my partner Dan DeWolf is on the board) team for the launch of their direct-to consumer service which offers live homework help and online tutoring. This is the culmination of a mission that George set out to realize over 8 years ago. What is most impressive to me is that while George’s initial focus when he launched the service in 2000 was to go after the consumer market, he quickly recognized

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

I encourage you to read what Evan Williams has to say (courtesy of Gigaom) about some of the mistakes he made at Odeo. Evan is one of the founders of Blogger which he sold to Google and is also founder and CEO of Odeo, a podcasting company. He goes on to outline a number of mistakes that he has made as an entrepreneur such as not understanding who his customer was and wanted, starting off with too broad a market focus, and raising too much money too fast.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

I recently had the opportunity to do a podcast with Heather Green of BusinessWeek and Blogspotting. If you have a desire to hear about some of the areas I find interesting and to learn about pitfalls to avoid for startups, I suggest that you download the show. My only regret is that we did not get to use Gizmo Project , one of my portfolio companies, to do the podcast.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Nisan Gabbay of Sierra Ventures recently contacted me with respect to his new blog, Startup Review. According to Nisan: Startup Review will be a blog that profiles successful Internet start-ups in a case study format. The case studies will analyze the key factors that made the companies successful, with an emphasis on strategy and product decisions.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Doing Lunch Rather Than Being Lunch | Main. | Planning for a Harvest » September 13, 2006. I Wish Id Sold More. Rare is the entrepreneur who at the end, whether good or bad, hasnt said "I wish Id sold more.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « More on Plan Development | Main. | Paul Graham on Funding Startups » September 08, 2006. The Best Advisors are Teachers. Several of the insightful comments Ive gotten this week asks if I dont see a place for the business advisor in the entrepreneurial business.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2006

There has been lots of discussion about Google going after Microsoft with a focus on collaborative office tools vs. siloed, desktop-oriented ones. I can definitely see a need for some of what Google has to offer particularly with the ease of use of unlocking data and analysis and sharing it with others. All that being said, I have a hard time viewing their offering as a replacement for Microsoft office.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Startup Success in Silicon Valley | Main. | Finding Credible Help » September 01, 2006. Looks like weve started something. Yesterdays post drew several comments and a lot of traffic. Seems this whole subject is a hot button.

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Spencer Fry

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

I remember 2 years ago the brouhaha over globalization and how every startup needed to adapt or it would die. I truly am a fervent believer in globalization and how offshoring some development work can make a ton of sense from a cost and time advantage (24×7). As I look across our portfolio, what is interesting is that while the comparative advantage of developing in say, India, was once 4 to 1 it is looking like it is more 2:1 or lower as you factor in costs like management overhead, trave

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