Professor VC
DECEMBER 18, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, December 18, 2008. Why didnt I think of that?? Great ideas can come from many places. Some result from years of work and/or education while others are a result of trying to identify a unique solution to a consumer or business problem. Of course, there are those that are completely ridiculous ( think Pet Rock ).
K9 Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2008
In my previous post , I claimed that “Venture Capital is a people business in every sense of the word. It is therefore a boutique industry and it cannot scale.” Let me expand on that thought a little more to qualify what I’m saying. Unlike investing in public markets, investing in early stage companies happens before those companies have a real business, when it is just a concept and a team, and sometimes not even a whole team.
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Eric Friedman
DECEMBER 13, 2008
If a service fails in the cloud that no one is on, does it use any bandwidth? This is certainly old news but I just received the latest update on my XDrive account from AOL letting me know that the service will be shut down January 12, 2009 and all my files will be deleted. Please go to the Xdrive site at www.xdrive.com to download your files as soon as possible.
Altgate
DECEMBER 17, 2008
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Geek Quotes The 3X Liquidation Preference Is Back! → Holiday Cards Posted on December 17, 2008 by fnazeeri For some reason, the best holiday cards seem to come out of venture capital firms instead of startups. Who knows why…maybe the companies have better stuff to work on.
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
Seeing Both Sides
DECEMBER 18, 2008
My firm, Flybridge Capital Partners , launched a new program last week that was inspired by Scott Kirsner's blog post earlier this year on the tragedy of Massachusetts students not remaining in the state after they graduate. Scott called to task some of the industry associations who, in theory, should be welcoming to students but, in practice, create barriers by charging them for attending the critical industry events that would help weave them into the business community.
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Altgate
DECEMBER 18, 2008
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Holiday Cards Year End Management Changes → The 3X Liquidation Preference Is Back! Posted on December 18, 2008 by fnazeeri A while ago I wrote about how a liquidation preference works and I’ve noticed that this has quickly become one of the most popular posts on Altgate and a top-10 result in the Google search for that term.
Altgate
DECEMBER 15, 2008
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← A Squeeze On Boston Venture Valuations Geek Quotes → How Much Is A Free Customer Worth? Posted on December 15, 2008 by fnazeeri A while ago I wrote about a great HBR article titled, “ Strategies for a Two-Sided Market &# by Tom Eisenmann et al.
Altgate
DECEMBER 19, 2008
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Year End Management Changes A View On Investing → How Madoff Made Off Posted on December 19, 2008 by fnazeeri So everyone has read about how Bernie Madoff has this 14+ year old Ponzi scheme and many have heard that for years now a money manager named Harry Markopolos has had a decade-long running battle to unveil the fraud.
Altgate
DECEMBER 18, 2008
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The 3X Liquidation Preference Is Back! How Madoff Made Off → Year End Management Changes Posted on December 18, 2008 by fnazeeri Last December I wrote a post about how December is the time of year when a lot of startup Boards decide to make management (read CEO) changes.
Altgate
DECEMBER 16, 2008
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← How Much Is A Free Customer Worth? Holiday Cards → Geek Quotes Posted on December 17, 2008 by fnazeeri Just stumbled across this list of geek quotes. Some of these are pretty funny. My favorites are: There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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