Filed in archive Technology
by tj on July 28, 2004
Jonathan Schwartz obviously has a very different position as most people on the issue of ongoing commodization in the software industry: "A whole host of folks like to believe the computing...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 28, 2004
Source: www.alexa.com/ Rajesh has another great story - make yourself aware of the "Death Traps": "10. Bringing on the Vulture The bad news is that while all money is green, it is not...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 28, 2004
Source: www.dittmar.fi Rajesh has this fine link: "Venture capitalists are chickens. Compared to entrepreneurs they're spectators in the great game of small business hardball. They would no...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on July 27, 2004
Source: www.skype.com ZdNet.com has more details on the newest service of my favorite VoIP company: "Customers of SkypeOut, as the service is called, download free software and then create an...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 27, 2004
In contrast to all the hype about Netflix and all the copy cats this is a business model I believe in - Cinemanow just raised another US$ 11 million in series D. "Santa Monica-based CinemaNow has...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 27, 2004
Symbol is acquiring Matrics in one of the biggest deals in this industry so far for stunning US$ 230 million. "The acquisition of Matrics is a significant step in executing our plan to be a...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 25, 2004
Just after the posting on Friday the first mails kept coming in. We received mails with help offered for review from VC experts and entrepreneurs sending in their ideas. It seems the initiative got...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 25, 2004
Minesh sends in a pre-pre-rumor about yilk.com an ebay clone that looks to enter the market with an even fuller set of features as ebay does. There is nothing to see at the domain yet, let's see...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on July 25, 2004
The Economist had one of this wonderful in-depth business analysis in the last issue about the diamonds business. The article highlights a new entry into the secretive business from Israeli Lev Leviev...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 25, 2004
siliconvalley.com has interesting facts about VC return: "For the first time since 2000, the one-year return on venture capital investments posted a double-digit annual gain as of March 31. The...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on July 23, 2004
I always though China will be the first one to overtake the US economy in size according to the common sense of predictions, but now I see this (pdf): "India would emerge as the world's...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 23, 2004
Russell had a wonderful idea recently - why don't we initiate a "Business Plan Surgery" at Creative Weblogging? We do! The "Business Plan Surgery" is designed to give expert...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 23, 2004
Venturewire reports about a series F (!) round of 10 million for Allconnect. Allconnect is describing their business model as follows: "The process starts when a person moving into a new house or...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 21, 2004
ManageSoft is announcing their US$ 13 million from Siemens Venture Capital, Technology Venture Partners, a leading VC firm in Australia, Atila Ventures/ETV and Deutsche Bank. Managesoft is a...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 21, 2004
David Teten co-author of the excellent Online Business Networks mails in his personal blog - Brainfood. Check it out.......
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 21, 2004
Scott has some interesting LinkedIn statistics: "- "While LinkedIn.com is a free site, and intends to keep providing a free service in the future, it plans to launch a premium service that...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on July 20, 2004
Stefan sends in this eye opening statistics of law firm profitability: "CLIFFORD CHANCE may still be the world's biggest law firm in terms of both turnover---�950m ($1.7 billion) in...
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Filed in archive Politics
by tj on July 20, 2004
The Economist has another supporting story how much economic liberty helps to support GDP growth: "The report measures countries' promotion of "economic freedom"---defined by low...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 19, 2004
vc-facts.de reports that mobiloco.de has found new (angel) investors. I really appreciate the belief of the founders in their idea, but I can't help, for me it seems the "Buddy Alert...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 19, 2004
can be found at our sister weblog - The RFID Weblog. Enjoy!......
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on July 16, 2004
Seth Godin is working on defining the very new economy which he calls the "blended economy" - wonderful observations: "So, how do we tell the good from the bad? In a connected world...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 15, 2004
Mike from always excellent Techdirt has this fascinating piece: "In 1999 the entrepreneurs behind a photo hosting company named Webshots sold their company to Excite@Home for $82.5 million. Not...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on July 15, 2004
Akimbo a company that streams independent media through the net has raised US$ 12 million. Akimbo had been my obvious favorite at the Demo 2004 reports. Seems someone was faster than I :)...
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