BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. One is Gurunet which delivers a better search by giving users answers instead of links via desktop tools or through its website at Answers.com.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 21, 2005

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend time with the CTO of a major financial services company with a $1 billion IT budget. In these meetings I like to learn about the major priorities and where the open opportunities for early stage companies exist. The good news was that the company was very open to working with entrepeneurial ventures. Priority number 1 for the organization was to standardize on a common architecture and infrastructure.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

On Thursday, I had the opportunity today to speak on a panel at the SAEC Global Venture Congress. Other panelists included the moderator, Scott Maxwell from Insight Venture Partners, Bob Gold of Ridgewood Capital, Robert Dennen of Enhanced Capital Partners, Todd Pietri of Milestone Venture Partners, and Roger Hurwitz of Apax Partners. Our panel was focused on helping entrepreneurs build a winning technology company.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 7, 2005

Just the other day, I took a redeye back from Israel and bumped into a couple of Israeli VCs and entrepreneurs making their annual journey to CES. I have to admit that I am a bit jealous but since I have a number of trips scheduled in the upcoming weeks, I decided to pass on the conference. That being said, I have been lamenting with fellow VC blogger Jeff Nolan on how hard it is to get our entertainment gear to work.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 7, 2005

Jonathan Schwartz from Sun has a good post about the nature of developers, and why building a relationship with them is key to creating opportunities. One of the smartest software execs I’ve worked with had a saying, Developers don’t buy things, they join things." That’s been a pretty focusing statement for us over the years, and as we enter the new year, you should expect 2005 to be one in which we place an ever heightening focus on our dialog with the community, and the d

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