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by tj on March 31, 2005
Easy to predict - more Open Source Enterprise Software companies attract large investments. We had given it some thoughts here. IT Ground Work has closed a $8.5 million round with Mayfield and Canaan...
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by tj on March 30, 2005
The WSJ has very well researched article about Blog Advertising: "Gawker Media, one of the biggest brands in Web log publishing, launched a saucy urban travel blog called Gridskipper on Jan. 31....
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by tj on March 30, 2005
Good week at Creative Weblogging - two more sites up: Digital TV WeblogFinance WeblogCheck them out.......
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by tj on March 29, 2005
A personal note - I have been an active investor and founder of Creative Weblogging from the first day on. During the last months the company has shown an impressive growth: - from 0 to 30 focused...
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by tj on March 28, 2005
Please welcome our new sponsor Gotomeeting.com. Gotomeeting is one of the best online conferencing tools I 've come across so far. It is also one of the most economical. GoToMeeting let's you...
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by tj on March 28, 2005
Alibaba.com has impressed us all with their huge investment round last year. Now billsdue leads to me a presentation from Alibaba how they pitched investors. You may download it here (PPT, 1MB). Some...
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by tj on March 28, 2005
Good news - Creative Weblogging and ITConversations have decided to enter a mutual cooperation. ITConversations will be our premier partner for podcasting and audio streaming. ITConversations already...
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by tj on March 27, 2005
Last year I could not even spot them on Cebit and this year they got full press coverage - congratulations! Founder Niklas Zennstr�m with an interview at Infoworld: "Niklas Zennstr�m made a...
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by tj on March 26, 2005
Interesting observations: "Most corporate website "news" sections list mundane press releases about InfoWorld awards or the appointment of a new Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO). Social...
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by tj on March 26, 2005
Mark at the Dating Weblog has two good posts up about recent developments at Friendster and Plaxo: "Friendster has disclosed its partnership with Pusit, which has been running an online...
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by tj on March 25, 2005
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have come out with a newly packaged version of Steven D. Levitt's papers which we had first introduced here. The history of the book aptly named...
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by tj on March 24, 2005
My favorite News aggregator makes headlines: "Topix.net has been self-funded by its founders, without any VC involvement. I know that the company did go up and down Sand Hill Road at some point,...
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by tj on March 24, 2005
The GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) has a new paper of Entrepreneurial Activity in 2004 on a global scale. You can download it here (pdf). - GEM research estimates that 73 million adults are...
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by tj on March 24, 2005
There is a new GEM Report for Germany available here (pdf). It is German only but if you are interested in the topic you will understand most graphs anyway as it uses the same terminology as all other...
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by tj on March 24, 2005
Jeff defends the moral of (some) VCs: "You want to talk about arrogance, how about the scores of entrepreneurs and their evil close cousins - the "successful executives" - who fail to...
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by tj on March 23, 2005
Bo Peabody has honored us with writing down a book "Lucky or smart?" with an astonishing size of 58 pages. Nothing wrong about saying something that matters in short words. The only problem...
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by tj on March 23, 2005
Robin Good reviews the powerful Skype competitor Teleo: "Teleo allows you to place PC-to-PC calls to other Teleo users anywhere in the world for free, even over wi-fi connections and behind...
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by tj on March 23, 2005
Springwise reports about an interesting consumer lending service: " Just launched: UK-based Zopa, a place where creditworthy consumers who'd like to borrow money can get together with other...
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by tj on March 22, 2005
A different viewpoint: The CIO On the panel: - Stephan Schambach, CEO, Demandware- Edward Shenderovich, CEO, Quantum Art- Axel Schultze, CEO, Blue Roads- Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO, QualsysHighlights: -...
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by tj on March 22, 2005
Engineering Best Practices On the panel: - N.N., VP Engineering, Jotspot- Mike Myer, VP Product Development, RightNow- Nagi Prabhu, VP Engineering, Intacct- Jacob Taylor, VP Engineering,...
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by tj on March 22, 2005
Gerry Mooney, IBM VP Corporate Strategy, Keynote Session Highlights: - Gerry sees the on-demand era as a growing one in a hardly growing market - Who survives big climate changes during ice age?...
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by tj on March 22, 2005
Winning Formulas On the panel: - Greg Gianforte, CEO, RightNow Technologies- Subrah Iyar, CEO, Webex- Jeffery Lunsford, CEO, Websidestory- Michael Topolovac, CEO, Arena SolutionsHighlights: - Subrah...
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by tj on March 22, 2005
Wow this is one of the deals that do not happen too often - Askjeeves has agreed to be acquired by IAC for $ 1.85 billion. ""It's about growth," Jeeves CEO Steve Berkowitz said....
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