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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. Gaming is still the largest category, where you see multiple mobile game companies with $100M+ revenue (e.g.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. a deal in which you gain valuable, incremental bandwidth while mitigating your cash outflows. link] Chris Puttick.

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Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)

VC Cafe

Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. We analyze your bandwidth and make all your stuff very simple. VC Cafe: What would you say are your killer differentiators? How are you planning ramp up the revenue?

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