Filed in archive Events
by tj on January 31, 2006
Auren Hoffmann pulls another great event out of nothing - the first Connector Group Event at JPMorgan's offices in San Francisco yesterday. The event itself was a mix of networking and mini DEMO....
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 31, 2006
RedHerring has the news about the size of SlingMedia's round: "Sling Media, which makes a set-top box that allows users to access their television programs, music, and pictures from their...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 30, 2006
As the TimesOnline reports another European player cleans up the basement: "WESTLB, the German bank, is pulling out of venture capital once and for all as it prepares to sell its last remaining...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 30, 2006
Tom Evslin elaborates on this emerging topic/ idea: "To oversimplify what he is saying, VC Rick Segal blogs that a VC used to provide both a Rolodex full of contacts which the entrepreneur...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on January 29, 2006
I have just been trough Thomas L. Friedman's latest book. The book is no secret it's already a bestseller and it's good to see people are interested in the whole space. However the first...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 26, 2006
Dan Gillmore, author of We the media and founder of Bayosphere has published an open letter about the end of the project as a for-profit company. "We envisioned Bayosphere as a place where people...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on January 26, 2006
SiliconBeat comments on the latest round of Sling - a better Tivo that let's you stream your recordings from the PVR to whatever device you wish (even you cell phone). The company apparently...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 26, 2006
Barbara Payne has a laudatio on Anita Campbell, blogger from the first minute at Creative Weblogging: "Anita Campbell has been passionately applying all her previous online marketing experience...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on January 26, 2006
Innovation Watch comments on the recent Hitwise report: "Hitwise analyst LeeAnn Prescott says 2005 was a breakout year for consumer generated content. Citizen's media is hot, she says, and it...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on January 26, 2006
BtoBOnline.com has a good overview over worries for weekly general interest weeklies: "For years, FedEx Corp. bought ad space in most of the mainstream newsweeklies to capitalize on the...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on January 26, 2006
Guy also has a great DEMO guide if you are about to present over there... "Bring two of everything. There is a place for duplication: equipment. Expect everything to break the night before...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 26, 2006
Guy Kawasaki has a nice guide to bootstrap (I guess its from one of his books - just don't know which one?): "Focus on cash flow, not profitabilityThe theory is that profits are the key to...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 25, 2006
Courtesy of Daniel Primack comes Niel Robertson's, CTO of Newmerix analysis of a 'typical first round'."Let me start by getting everyone back on the same page. As I wrote about in...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on January 25, 2006
Promising startup Splunk, which we featured here has raised a series B. "Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced they've...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 25, 2006
If you are in the Bay Area - this might be of interest: "Peter Chung, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners talks about - - What do standard term sheets look like? - What are important terms do VCs...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 19, 2006
One of our favorite DEMO presenters at DEMO September was VideoEgg. Smart and nice founders and a simple to understand and actually very 'demoable' piece of software. Now VideoEgg announces...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 17, 2006
Blogging/ Social Networking hybrid gather.com scores a respectable round: "Next week the company plans to announce a $6 million infusion from investors led by Jim Manzi, the former head of Lotus...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 13, 2006
Jeff Cornwall alerts me of the new Global Entrepreneurship Report for 2005: "Classic venture capital is up for the first time since the year 2000, according to GEM's focus section on...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 13, 2006
Via Rajesh Jain comes this perspective of the Indian VC market by Sumant Mandal of Clearstone: 'There is approximately $1 billion that's been raised for investment in private companies in...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on January 13, 2006
While some pundits predict a major exit for Technorati Jeremy Zawodny and David Galbraith are analysing the usefulness of blog search engines around: "I don't recall Feedster ever being all...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on January 13, 2006
Via Businesspundit comes this list of TOP 10 lies of entrepreneurs from 37signals. Equally entertaining as the list of VC lies from Guy Kawasaki we had featured earlier: "Our projections are...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on January 13, 2006
Wow that's a busy week with a rush of new investments - latest is video conferencing service Convoq. More here: " The round was led by Bay Partners, a Cupertino, Calif.-based early-stage...
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