SoCal CTO
MAY 31, 2008
Chris Gammil and I just spent some quality time together with a new, private group that is advising start-ups here in Los Angeles. The goal is to have start-ups learn from each other and from others who have been through the experience. So, far it's turning out great. The primary question we ask is: What's Keeping You Up at Night Chris provided a list of common issues: How much is enough?
Professor VC
MAY 29, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, May 29, 2008. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? This is often a tough question to answer. To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures.
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Jason Ball
MAY 29, 2008
I posted a great review of Mozy 12 months ago. I even used the word "snazzy" I just cancelled my account with them. I absolutely DO NOT recommend their backup service. (Please be warned, a rant follows.). <rant> My MacBook Pro hard drive failed earlier this year and I needed to restore from my Mozy backup. After following their restore procedure, it became apparent that many, many GB of information were missing.
Eric Friedman
MAY 31, 2008
I was handed a flyer the other day for a new delivery service in Manhattan called Wakozi.com. The interface is cool and I may check it out next time I need instant delivery. It definitely looks interesting but I sure miss the days of Kozmo.com 1 hour delivery of anything you wanted.
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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
MAY 28, 2008
What I like to tell portfolio companies is that on average it will take 6 months to raise capital with some cycles being shorter and some being longer. Given that, it is imperative for a company to start thinking about its next round well ahead of time and the milestones it needs to hit to have the right momentum to get potential investors excited. One area that I would like to caution entrepreneurs is being too aggressive on the milestones and revenue forecast, particularly in the near term.
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Professor VC
MAY 6, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Academically challenged. My colleague, Joel West, wrote a blog post yesterday responding to an article in the Financial Times on the looming shortage of b-school faculty. In the post, he raises the age old question of whether business students are better served by traditional academics or those with current, practical business experience.
Jason Ball
MAY 25, 2008
It's not everyday that my hometown shows up in VentureSource, so I had to repost this: SMARTSYNCH (JACKSON, MS) RAISES $20 MILLION IN SERIES E?— Industry: Vertical Market Applications Software —?. Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment led a $20 million round of?series E financing for SmartSynch. Other round investors included Siemens Venture Capital, Beacon Group, and OPG Ventures, Innovation?
Eric Friedman
MAY 30, 2008
FT has an interesting look at “web 2.0″ companies and how they are not producing cash. The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers.
BeyondVC
MAY 21, 2008
I had some interesting meetings yesterday and as I reflected on them this morning, one common theme emerged which is that the next generation of the web will be built on data mining and extracting intelligence from the reams of data web services collect on a daily basis. This reminds me of a post I made in March of 2006 titled "The Next Generation Web – scaling and data mining will matter" where I mention: I truly believe the next battleground will be based on scaling the back end
aweissman.com
MAY 4, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. May 4, 2008. Post-Americanism. This week, I traded alot of emails with a great hacker in Barcelona, had a skype call with a CEO in London, and had lunch on Friday with a South African and a half British/half French guy (at a Filipino restaurant, natch). I personally feel provincial, what with a simple NY pedigree.
Cracking the Code
MAY 15, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Sc
Jason Ball
MAY 22, 2008
Right after the mobile world congress this year, I posted that this was definitely the Year of the Browser. Opera have just released some pretty interesting stats on mobile web usage for Q1 2008 through the Opera mini browser: Social networking stands supreme. Almost 40% of traffic worldwide is to social networks. In some countries, such as the United States, South Africa and Indonesia, the social Web accounts for more than 60% of the traffic.
Eric Friedman
MAY 27, 2008
Nike takes it to the next level with this full length ad of a football players POV (US readers read: Soccer) both on and off the field. I have not seen anything like this before and thought it was worth sharing here. (thanks Scott!).
BeyondVC
MAY 15, 2008
Every day it seems we are reading about the power of social networking to transform the Internet and how we communicate online and also consume and discover new content. While that is true and clearly changing the consumption habits of online users, today seems like a flashback to the old school Internet days where traditional content was king. First IAC announced the acquisition of Lexico Corp which owns dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, and reference.com and then CBS announced the acquisition of
Eric Friedman
MAY 21, 2008
A few months ago I had to open a new bank account with Citibank. The experience did not go well to say the least, which was sad because I have banked with Citibank for over 10 years. They did however follow up with me, the new customer, about a month later to see how things were going. To my surprise they did not recognize that I was already a Citibank customer and did not connect the dots between accounts (an easy thing to let slide).
BeyondVC
MAY 14, 2008
As you know, I have always been a believer in open standards (see my post from January 2006 ). Being a market leader, it is quite easy for Facebook to create their own standard similar to how every other instant messaging network was started. And to that end, Facebook started down that path. But just today, it announced that it was extending its chat and opening up its service by offering XMPP/Jabber support.
BeyondVC
MAY 9, 2008
As I have mentioned before, Nokia is one of the few handset manufacturers to get it (See my post from 2/07 on this). Nokia understands that hardware margins are eroding and like in many technology businesses the value is in the software and monthly service revenue. In addition, as time goes by, more and more people will be using their phones and data services to get information and communicate with friends.
Jason Ball
MAY 12, 2008
One of the areas I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at is All Things Geo. Three headlines caught my eye today: Eye-fi Explore -auto geotags your photos before uploading automagically via wifi. Sony Ericsson- have patented geotagging songs “Proposed technology for a “location dependent music search” would use. GPS or a similar mapping method to determine the phone’s location and. promptly find music associated with the area, whether on the device or. on an Inte
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