BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

The buzz around offshoring has certainly died down over the last year. For a period of time, you could not pick up a magazine or read a newspaper without a lead article on the dangers of offshoring. I had dinner tonight with a portfolio company CEO who has managed to shift most of his resources to India. Today the company has almost 100 employees in India, over 30 of whom have been with the company for 5+ years.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 26, 2006

Today is Wayne Gretzky’s birthday, the greatest hockey player of all time. Anyway, as I was looking at Today’s Highlights from Answers.com , I was reminded of a couple of my favorite quotes from him: "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." If you have read my blog in the past, I am sure you can understand why I love them so much.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

Sure, the next-generation web is cheap. It is about cheaper bandwidth, cheaper hardware, free software, and better tools. In other words, you get much more done with much less than in years past. I have written about this in a prior post, Web as Platform. Anyway, has anyone noticed the arms race for talent out there? Sure it is cheap to get a product up and running but to scale any business you need talented employees in engineering and product.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 2, 2006

I remember when I first got into this business over 10 years ago and one of my partners told me that the secret to success is about the people, not about the technology. All too often we are enamored with how cool or sexy a technology is, invest lots of dollars to create that killer product, and sometimes forget that it is all about the people. We spend lots of time on product development plans, sales plans, and financial models and not enough time preparing and thinking about how to continue to

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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 18, 2006

As you are probably well aware, Google just announced open federation with other IM services via XMPP (jabber). It’s about time that someone did this. Sure, the Trillians of the world are great to have as aggregators of networks but what I really want is ONE identity that is cross network, cross platform, and cross communications (voice, IM, email).

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