Filed in archive by tj on May 31, 2004
- the latest Carnival of the Capitalists. It is probably the biggest of it's kind for a long time and gives you a great selection of noteworthy articles from the blogosphere.......
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on May 26, 2004
I just came across this well drafted overview (pdf)about economic indicators in the UAE between 2000 and 2003.......
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 26, 2004
Seems the Monster has even more appetite, after buying jobpilot.de last week monster.com announced the acquisition of tickle.com the grand-daddy of social software. "Tickle has been profitable...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 26, 2004
This company is amazing - although most (or all) of the companies services are still free it just raised US$ 20 million in series C from Cisco and Sequoia Capital. As the discussion about privacy...
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on May 25, 2004
Cnet has an interesting sidenote how Intel expands R&D facilities in Russia in a smart way: "Instead of outsourcing to them, we hired them," Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said. "This...
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by tj on May 25, 2004
As Siemens seems disappointed from sales of the new Xelibri line that has been planned as the second mobile for everyone it stops selling the brand: "We'll continue to serve this market...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 25, 2004
Wow, my sincere respect goes to the Samwer brothers. Many thought their first sale of alando.de to ebay was pure luck. With Jamba they have shown it is luck and good entrepreneurship that has driven...
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on May 24, 2004
Dubai is probably the best place in the Middle East to do business outside of Israel. The city is a great mix of shopping cathedrals, wonderful beaches, skyscrapers and business parks. Source:...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 24, 2004
Mario sends in the announcement of the first (?) angel round of weblogsinc.com that have a similar business model as Creative Weblogging. I'm curious about how this money will be used......
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Filed in archive Technology
by tj on May 23, 2004
Phil links to Jeff Pulvers hot news about Skype. I had made some (fairly easy) predictions about Skype in March. Now the skype founders haven given the babies names: "As previously hinted,...
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by tj on May 23, 2004
Rajesh links to Dan Bricklin's thoughts about software licenses. I guess is very much right with his perspectives. Software distribution has changed as we are even talking about utility computing...
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by tj on May 23, 2004
I got a bit deeper into the topic of social software recently. It seems there something of a battle going on between the open networks Ryze, OpenBC, Orkut, Tribe and Friendster and LinkedIn and the...
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by tj on May 23, 2004
if you are coming to or staying in Germany and if you are in the process to increase your reach via business networks this linkfest might be a help for you.......
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 23, 2004
Tim Draper who invented a new form of VC pitching last year is back with the second round to pitch your billion dollar idea through the AO weblog. Honestly if you have any idea of value it might be...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 21, 2004
Barry mails in the Fenwick trends in Venture Financings - and it is pretty much upbeat, as up rounds outpaced down rounds for the first time since Fenwick does the reporting. Venture valuations are...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on May 21, 2004
I had been in India long enough to make my own judgement. Whatever I had seen is that globalization had huge benefits for this country. There are many smaller countries in a similiar development stage...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 21, 2004
Symantec has added spam solutions into it's portfolio by buying Brightmail the so far market leader in spam detection technologies. The deal values Brightmail at approximately US$370 million.......
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship
by tj on May 19, 2004
One of the tales of modern business history is the satellite phone business. Just shortly before the dotcom boom gained full steam billions of dollars had been invested into high risk projects to...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 19, 2004
This is not exactly a new headline but pretty noteworthy. After buying Jobline.de some years ago, Monster is still hungry for the German market and has agreed to buy Jobpilot.de Germany's...
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by tj on May 18, 2004
M-E-X Blog links to a great beginners guide for writing a business plan (German pdf).......
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by tj on May 16, 2004
Hamburg has selected the entrepreneurs of the year 2004 in this wonderful city: - Goertz a German shoe discount retail giant - Globetrotter the best known outdoor chain in Germany and most...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 16, 2004
Russell mails in this interesting article at the NYT. It highlights a field of VC activity that hardly gets much attention - the buyout of startups acquired during the tech boom. "Silicon Valley...
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by tj on May 14, 2004
We are very happy to see Russell to start a new weblog with us covering the influence of mobile technology and location based services on marketing. "Russell is a leading practitioner and...
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by tj on May 14, 2004
Futurist Paul Saffo in an interview with BusinessWeek: "The media expression of the mainframe in the '60s was e-mail in 1969, but it didn't mature until it migrated to client-server...
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by tj on May 13, 2004
Much has happened to the social software field in the last months. The explosive growth in this area fueled by the enourmous valuation of Friendster and many investment rounds has been coming to a...
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by tj on May 13, 2004
Jemi just pointed me to the Inspire Award by t-com. The contest looks to reward the best innovation from German innovators. Jemi's and my favorite is Bjoern Magnussen and his super-tiny motors....
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 12, 2004
VoiceObjects headquartered in Cologne, Germany announced (pdf) a stunning � 10.4 million in the latest round of financing. The investment came from T-Venture, Wellington Partners and SAP Ventures....
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by tj on May 12, 2004
An Entrepreneurs Life has a great round-up how to deal with your critics. "One of my mentors is fond of saying, "if you don't offend at least two people a day, you aren't saying...
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by tj on May 12, 2004
Dave at Dispatches has another lovely analysis about the different kinds of startups taken from a book written by Amar Bhid�: "It is common to view startups as being homogeneous. In his book,...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by tj on May 12, 2004
Dispatches has a good portrait and analysis of Garage Technology Ventures : "First of all, Garage understands that highly experienced, highly successful entrepreneurs are disadvantaged when it...
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Filed in archive Global Economy
by tj on May 12, 2004
Loic has more insight on Estonia's investments into making the country a place for future business. "In August 2000, the Government of Estonia, as a world pioneer, changed its Cabinet...
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