BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. As I mention in an earlier post, " The less friction you have in your sales and delivery model, the easier it is to scale.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 21, 2005

As I have written before, most of the talk about this next generation web has focused around consumer applications. I, however, have always believed that we should not forget the enterprise. This resurgence of web-based and loosely coupled applications has been driven by consumer-based innovation but there are many pockets of opportunities for the enterprise to take the best of the open web.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 15, 2005

One of our advisors for our fund hosted a New York CIO dinner last night. It was a gathering of 30-40 of some of New York’s leading technology buyers, mostly from the financial services industry. As a VC, it was quite interesting to hear about the state of technology spending and what is top of mind for many of these players. Repeatedly I heard about grid computing, security, and service oriented architectures.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 14, 2005

At the CIO dinner I was at last night (more on that later), I had the opportunity to play with a demo model of the Motorola Q Phone running on a Verizon EVDO network. After a few minutes with this device, there is no doubt in my mind that Motorola will have another hit on its hand. It is as thin as the Razr, a little wider than my Blackberry 7100, has a full QWERTY keyboard, digital camera, full audio and video capabilities, and runs on Windows Mobile over Verizon’s high speed network.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2005

I would even apply this frictionless sales model to the consumer web. We all know that the Internet is turning every media company upside down about worries of cannabalizing their existing business. It is clear that CBS gets it as they just announced that March Madness will be delivered free over the Internet. CBS will monetize it with ads. CBS is going open and understands this could potentially create new and additive revenue models, not less.

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