Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on April 28, 2005
Another company that continues to amaze me - yes it is not high-tech but a company that seems to run from one success to another. It provides the best in-flight service in the industry, has the...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on April 26, 2005
Seems Google has hired many new good engineers lately - seem like RSS ads are finally coming into reach. I never understood why Google left out this space for so long... " This week, Google...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on April 25, 2005
delicious finds high-profile investors: "Union Square Ventures leads the investment group, and the other members are Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein,...
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by tj on April 25, 2005
Seems Google's Ajax implentations has found many friends. Oliver to this great tool combining real estate ads on craigslist and Google's satellite maps. A bit clumsy to use but very nice....
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by tj on April 25, 2005
Wow - I always thought this feature has been forgotten totally but Google seems to be serious about CPM ads on targeted sites. "Ad space will be auctioned on a cost-per-impression basis. This is...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on April 25, 2005
This comes as a surprise:"The U.S. venture-capital industry posted 474 deals in the first quarter of 2005, raising a total of $4.6 billion -- a decline of 9 percent in deal flow and a fall of 16...
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by tj on April 25, 2005
Seems sleepy Germany has some promising startups at last. Hamburg based MoreTV has successfully attracted two funds - Brockhaus Private Equity and better known BV Capital. It is not so easy to find...
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by tj on April 25, 2005
Good analysis from Martino - seems that he has a point VoD (most likely to be delivered via IP) might be a bigger and much better targeted advertising market: "In the other camp, new non-linear...
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by tj on April 25, 2005
Prasanth has a primer on open source in the enterprise: "In the recent Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, Larry Augustin, CEO of Medsphere, talked about four successful models,...
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by tj on April 22, 2005
alarm:clock reviews Mimeo: "Mimeo provides online printing services and document collaboration. If you want to print, say, 20 copies of that boring PowerPoint sales deck, you can upload/format...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on April 22, 2005
And I thought Rent-a-coder was cool... Thanks David.......
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on April 22, 2005
Dispatches has a long and very thoughtful post about motives and incentives for Angel investors: "Angel investors have a propensity to trust, but most often don't have the experiential basis...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on April 22, 2005
X1 is a comipany that amazes me since 2004. Now the company goes into full steam and raises $10 millionfrom U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and Pasadena-based Idealab in order to get a foot into the...
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by tj on April 21, 2005
Pretty good and detailed comparison for these two tools combining yellow pages and social networking: "I compared tribe.net and InsiderPages.com, two leading companies that have very different...
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by tj on April 21, 2005
No doubt VoIP is a market that rocks: "SIPquest, a developer of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based IP Telephony software pplications and technology, announced today that it has secured US...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on April 21, 2005
Germany has set beside another EUR 360 million for public seed financing of Germany based start-ups until 2010. It always strikes me why taxpayers ate the main seed investors in Germany. GEM is...
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by tj on April 20, 2005
Well the name is certainly clever - now investors have taken a second bite: "SilverCarrot, Inc., an emerging leader in the online performance-based lead generation business, today announced it...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on April 20, 2005
It seem like the Newsgator founders can't wait to get rid of their equity - yet another round from Moebius and Masthead Venture Partners. "NewsGator will be rolling out a wide range of...
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by tj on April 20, 2005
21Publish has introduced a free version of their service. Being an early investor and consultant for 21Publish I'm impressed what release cycle the small team manages. They have introduced a...
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by tj on April 19, 2005
Cnet has great news: "One scenario that's been discussed would see TiVo partner with Google or Yahoo on a new service that would let consumers search for videos on the Web and then watch them...
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by tj on April 18, 2005
According to Thomas Friedman at least who has just published his second book on Globalization - The world is flat. The Economist had no good words for it. But I really liked his first book "The...
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by tj on April 18, 2005
Martino writes: "But let's start off with a little reality check. In 2003 the Viacom station group (Viacom owns CBS) received about $1.8 billion in advertising revenue. If every household...
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Filed in archive by tj on April 18, 2005
The NYT sheds light on where to invest in 'Meet the Laggards'"But the focus on the globe's economic hotspots may be overshadowing some of the world's slower-growing, established...
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