SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2007
I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant. Great question. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different size/type companies that somewhat echoes my experience. ( Roger Smith ) This helps explain where I normally play.
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 7, 2007
For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor.
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BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum. Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors. Hence, a new approach was needed (our database software running on commodity clusters) which would allow companies to load and query terabytes of data at 10-100x performance and scal
Cracking the Code
APRIL 18, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Dont click on this link! Devils link.it will hurt your productivity seriously! Desktop Tower Defense is the most addictive online game I have ever played with.and it is entirely browser based, so no need to download an additional client to your PC.
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
www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 7, 2007
ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteStart Country Channels ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain About Subscribe Contact Advertise Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Reports How To Bootstrap Your Startup Written by Matt Rogers / September 10, 2007 1:55 AM / 32 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » The first in a series of posts about how to run a startup and develop a product, written by guest author Matt Rogers
Jason Ball
SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
I’ve been using Panic’s Coda , everything-web-development tool, and agree with others , it is the bee’s knees. Not only is it a great web development tool, it’s five tools in one window: HTML Editor, CSS Editor, Terminal, FTP, Browser and Library. One of the great features is saving your work on a “Site” When you close Coda, all the tabs you had open while working on a particular site are saved- essentially saving your entire workspace.
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aweissman.com
JULY 31, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jul 31, 2007. Venture Capital. Rarely have I read a more interesting essay about the psychology of venture investing than this piece written by Todd Jaquez - Fissori. I dont know Todd, but his post is a most welcome take written with a rare honesty and rich in both substance and fact: "Point of this rambling was that there are a 1000 reasons to say no to a deal, and only one reason to say yes.
Tim Keane
OCTOBER 30, 2007
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! | Main. | Investing in Groups - best practices of Angels » October 30, 2007. "God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe. Whether you like the architecture of Mies van der Rohe or not, this particular comment does make you stop and think.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network. So the key question is: How can I leverage my network?
Occam's Razor
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
Someone highly salaried : "You know what our problem is? We have too many damn tools!" Me : "Oh, hm…" Someone highly salaried : "Thanks for agreeing with me, now please help us fix it!" Me : "No I meant, oh hmmmmmmm. " Someone highly salaried : "What do you mean? You are not going to solve my problem of getting a single source of truth for all my web data?
BeyondVC
APRIL 11, 2007
As a VC that invests in early stage companies, part of my job is to discover new opportunities and business models. While much of today’s online and social networking growth is being driven by teens and college students, very rarely do I get the opportunity to learn about interesting companies through the eyes of my young children. It started about 6 months ago, when my son came home from school talking about a build-your-own penguin site.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 30, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, March 30, 2007. Global warming: a plague for humanity? After all, global warming might not be a bad thing for everyone. As the globe heats up, some people can now: - play tennis 100 feet above the sea - pay $15k for a hotel night - enjoy drinks in bars surrounded by sea and coral fishes - live in a rotating skyscraper (powered with solar panel of course!
www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 7, 2007
ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteStart Country Channels ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain About Subscribe Contact Advertise Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Reports How To Create a Web App Written by Matt Rogers / October 4, 2007 1:13 AM / 29 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » This is the second post in our series on how to run a startup and develop a product.
Jason Ball
DECEMBER 5, 2007
Nic posted yesterday about the social search space. I’d highlighted one of the companies he mentioned in an earlier post , Nsyght. I tend to follow the search space closely and have wondered out loud "why isn’t google leveraging social input" to further tweak their algorithms? It appears I won’t have to wait long to see what Google is cooking up: This Google experiment page isn’t active yet, so you can’t use it, but does describe how social ranking works.
Genuine VC
OCTOBER 12, 2007
Much is often said about the founders of a company, including on this blog. And they seem to receive a preponderance of the recognition for the ultimate success of an endeavor. Of course, it's obvious that these individuals are vital to a startup. However, I think that the people often overlooked are those key first hires. Yes, the management team has a great affect on an organization, regardless of its size or stage.
aweissman.com
OCTOBER 3, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 3, 2007. Amie St is the future. Ive been aware of Amie St for a while now -- heard the buzz, checked out the service a few times. Looked interesting, but I never spent too much time really thinking hard about what they were creating. The way it works is that all songs start out as free downloads and rise in price the more they are purchased (with a max of $0.98).
Tim Keane
OCTOBER 3, 2007
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? | Main. | "God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe » October 03, 2007. We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! Do I hate to hear those words.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 14, 2007
Interviewing is art, and perhaps the most important thing you could do for your company. My post with tips on hiring web analysts ( Hiring? What Works: Fresh blood or old hands? Experience or Novicity? ) generated lots of comments [25!] and emails. The most common request was for tips on how to pick the right employer, I think that's a reflection that this is a buyers market [I promise to write that post just as soon as I can].
Cracking the Code
MARCH 23, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, March 23, 2007. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 12, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. Get your own helicopter for $50! and you can also make it fly on AirWolf tune. Our office is full of them! The name of the bird is PiccoZ. - hurry up, the retailers are out of stock! Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:29 PM.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 12, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. SEM: Search Engine Marketing (aka: paid search) is set of marketing methods to increase the visibility of a website in search engine results pages SEO: Search Engine Optimization (aka: organic or "free" search) attempts to improve rankings for relevant keywords in search
Cracking the Code
JANUARY 10, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, January 10, 2007. iPhone, Apple TV and more from Mac World. iPhone wonder I was one of the lucky few to have a first sight at Apples next wonder: the iPhone. The long awaited product was at last presented to the public and it was worth waiting.
Cracking the Code
JANUARY 5, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, January 05, 2007. VC lifestyle. How does the lifestyle of a VC look like? This video from Blueprint Ventures will give you good insights! Happy New Year 2007! Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:33 AM. Labels: anecdotes. 2 comments: jean. said.
BeyondVC
DECEMBER 12, 2007
Tis the holiday season and with the end of year comes budget planning for 2008. So that means it is time to get all of your key management members together to start reviewing 2007, what worked well, what did not work out, and to hammer out goals for next year. In the spirit of giving, I thought I would share with you one piece of advice – don’t sacrifice the long term value of your business for the short term.
BeyondVC
MAY 30, 2007
As an early stage investor and board member of several companies, I am fortunate to get the opportunity to work with some great entrepreneurs and also pattern match and observe trends, both good and bad, in early stage companies. I am not here to throw platitudes at you but simply to share an observation of the differences between some of the better run companies and the ones that have less than stellar execution.
BeyondVC
MAY 15, 2007
Congratulations to my friend Gary Vaynerchuk of the Wine Library for his acquisition of Cork’d (see Mashable and the Alarm Clock for coverage). When I had dinner with Gary a few months ago we talked about how the next big opportunity for e-commerce was to weave social networking and blogging tools into the existing infrastructure to directly drive transactions (see excerpt below from an earlier post on social shopping ).
BeyondVC
FEBRUARY 23, 2007
It is not a surprise that Google officially launched Google Apps Premier which is a bundled package of their hosted offerings for word processing, spreadsheets, email, calendaring, and instant messaging. I wrote about this in the fall of 2004 when Adam Bosworth joined Google from Microsoft and wrote a lengthy blog post on the web-based platform. Google has clearly been executing on this vision over the last two years, but I do not see this as a Microsoft killer.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 2, 2007
I had already written about OpenSocial ( OpenSocial and Facebook as Platforms) and frankly I was hoping for a lot more in the announcements and APIs. I only have a cursory understanding of OpenSocial from reading various posts and from crawling through the API definitions, but it appears that OpenSocial has a long way to go before it's going to be useful for several of the applications we are working on.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 31, 2007
We finally are starting to hear what Google's anticipated alternative to Facebook as a platform. If you've talked to me in the past few months, you probably know that this is something I've been grappling with across a variety of projects/domains. I've talked about this issue in: Facebook Platform and Facebook as a Learning Platform. With Google's entry, there's a nice alternative to Facebook and the key word is "open.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 27, 2007
I was on a panel yesterday at StartupLA. The event was a good event and I ran into a few folks that I hadn't seen in a while and meet a few new people. One thing that was interesting is that I'm finally starting to run into folks in Los Angeles who run in technology circles and who have blogs. This is something that I've been having a hard time finding.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 25, 2007
After hearing at a recent CTO Forum meeting from Siderean about their relational navigation technology and various discussions with other folks on search, it's seeming like entity extraction is coming up everywhere. Today I saw John Udell's post Entity extraction everywhere. Through this post, I found Gnosis a Firefox plugin that will do entity extraction and highlight the resulting terms on the page.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 23, 2007
I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 17, 2007
On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. Will's post talks about lack of interest in working for startups here in Southern California, saying: we probably’d don’t have the: a) same support infrastructure (meet-ups, networking events, etc.); b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on).
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