Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. This represents an outstanding 2,298% growth vs. 2006 (this type of growth seems big but you get used to it when reading business plans is you day job).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Sunday, January 27, 2008. Is the Grass Really Greener on the Dark Side? The spring semester of my Entrepreneurial Finance class starts tomorrow. During the next four months, we will examine over a dozen entrepreneurial ventures from a diverse mix of industries - technology, service, food & beverage, and fashion.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2008

First of all, Google announced some amazing numbers growing its revenue over 50% and its earnings around 17%. That being said, investors in Google have high expectations and the stock fell in after hours trading. One note that many in the blogosphere seemed to pick up on is the higher cost of traffic acquisition from partners and the fact that social networking is not delivering results as expected( read Between the Lines for more).

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 26, 2008

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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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aweissman.com

JANUARY 30, 2008

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jan 30, 2008. Simplicity = utility. Marco built (well, released) something called Instapaper the other day which allows one to save web articles to read later. Its goal is simple (save to read later), its functionality is simple (click the read later button/ bookmarket ) and its design is simple (only 61 words -- including credits - on the front page!).

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

Do you have a drawer or closet full of old cell phones, iPods, and digital cameras? You know that you’re not supposed to throw them away because it’s not good for the environment. Plus, they still work. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain. And who knows how much you could get for them? I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 26, 2008

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 29, 2008

Engagement is a buzz word. It is a quest. It is altar at which many worship. Often though, atleast online, our hopes are dashed, efforts expended rarely have adequate ROI, the hype is followed with a bucket of cold water. It is not that measuring if "Visitors" / "Customers" itself is a ignoble goal. It is more that our execution efforts in measuring engagement are fatally flawed.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

Do you have a drawer or closet full of old cell phones, iPods, and digital cameras? You know that you’re not supposed to throw them away because it’s not good for the environment. Plus, they still work. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain. And who knows how much you could get for them? I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

What a great move by Microsoft! This has been floating around for awhile and the last time I wrote about it was in May of 2007. Anyway, I thought I bought at the bottom for Yahoo months ago in which case it fell another 25% from there. When I saw the news this morning I was quite happy to sell my shares and make a slight profit. As we all know when it comes to the Internet and advertising, scale matters.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 30, 2008

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