BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 28, 2005

From day one, I got into blogging not knowing what to expect and figuring out the best way to learn about a market is to dive into it and become a user. So I did that 18 months ago assuming that the time I spent as a blogger would either help me find compelling investment opportunities or provide me with in depth knowledge to help existing portfolio companies leverage this new opportunity.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 25, 2005

A number of companies are developing software and sytems which rely on packet processing at high speeds to deliver their respective functionality. This includes companies in the networking and security space. The debate over custom ASICs versus off-the-shelf components has raged on over the years. Over the last five years a new class of chip has arrived on the scene called the network processor.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 18, 2005

Last year at this time, I was at Demo in Arizona watching a couple of my portfolio companies launch new products and networking with other VCs and entrepreneurs. Given my travel schedule of late, I decided to go to Linuxworld in Boston for a day and follow Demo from many of the bloggers like Jeff Nolan. It seems that the consensus view from Demo was that there were lots of interesting products but nothing that blew the audience away.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 9, 2005

I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday about doing business development deals, and he was quite frustrated by the process that he was experiencing with one potential partner. He was calling on the highest levels at the company and knew that the ultimate decision rested with an executive committee. He met with 4 of the 6 members of the committee and each meeting seemed to be better than the previous one.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2005

Professor Noam Wasserman of HBS along with individuals from J. Robert Scott, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, and Ernst & Young LLP put together an annual compensation report for venture-backed companies. If you are venture-backed and interested in participating and receiving a free copy of the report to baseline compensation for your employees, I suggest going to CompStudy to get started.

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