Pascal's View

JULY 2, 2008

KPCB’s John Doerr interviewed Intel’s Craig Barrett at the Aspen Ideas Festival on the impact of technology on our society and dives into the topic of the sustainability of American competitiveness in innovation. This topic is front and center for the American venture capital industry, as the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) declared yesterday that a U.S. capital markets crisis exists for the start-up community.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Why? Because it is hard. Not impossible. Just hard. And for now it is equal parts quantitative, qualitative and faith. This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. 2 ] Outline why online to offline tracking is a difficult exercise, atleast for now. 3 ] Provide you

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Hacking Startups

JULY 3, 2008

'Most Facebook apps are giggly. But serious apps exist even today when they cannot spread. A comment on my earlier post 75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks asks if there are, indeed, any serious Facebook apps. Here are some of the serious apps that I have installed: Analytic Polls — opinion comparison/sharing.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 30, 2008

Matt Richtel over at the New York Times wrote an interesting article last week titled, “Venture Investors Wrap Up an Unusually Bleak Quarter.” The main data point that spurred the article is that this is the first quarter since 1978 that not one venture backed company went public. I don’t aim to dispute the facts. [.

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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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Pascal's View

JULY 4, 2008

Technorati’s Chairman, Peter Hirshberg , is on the move at the Aspen Ideas Festival– his video blog provides an excellent forum for impromptu commentary from influential thought leaders in various fields who are attending the conference (link below). Globally, children are developing differently as a result of the pervasive influence of the Internet in their social relations.

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Jason Ball

JULY 3, 2008

Who knew, my old alma mater, ESADE, has gotten hip and is hosting this year’s Mobile 2.0 Europe conference. If you haven’t looked at who’s attending, here’s a comprehensive list.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 29, 2008

'“[O]ne-third of adults said high gas prices had made them more likely to shop online to avoid driving.” - Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil - Los Angeles Times.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 29, 2008

“[O]ne-third of adults said high gas prices had made them more likely to shop online to avoid driving.” - Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil - Los Angeles Times.

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Hacking Startups

JULY 3, 2008

'“[Osama bin Laden] said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel” - Fears, Again, of Oil Supplies at Risk - New York Times, October 14, 2001.

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Hacking Startups

JULY 3, 2008

“[Osama bin Laden] said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel” - Fears, Again, of Oil Supplies at Risk - New York Times, October 14, 2001.

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Pascal's View

JULY 2, 2008

Media and Our Conflicting Values: Day 3. On our last day of this Socrates Seminar , we jumped squarely into the discussion of the Internet that we all wanted to have since Day 1. First, we acknowledged the disruptive transformation of the media away from its historical one-to-many controlled distribution model, which was largely restricted to professionally produced print, radio, and linear video broadcasting content.

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Pascal's View

JULY 2, 2008

Irshad Manji comments on the positive power of Ijtihad, the ancient tradition of critical thinking in Islam, and the importance of contemporary Muslim imams in justifying Muslim interfaith marriage.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 29, 2008

A very interesting Day 2! Some highlights: First Amendment issues and the specific domain of government regulation over free speech are narrowly confined to content creators over the licensed spectrum. For example, had the famous Janet Jackson Super Bowl breast exposure incident occurred on cable TV as opposed to broadcast TV, there would have been no regulatory issue over indecent exposure and hence no grounds for the FCC to get involved.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 28, 2008

Today we began our Summer 2008 Aspen Institute Socrates Society seminars. My session, moderated by former FCC Chairman Michael Powell , addresses Media and Our Conflicting Values. And plenty of conflicting values emerged in our lively four hour discussion. My takeaways after Day 1: * The function of the FCC as public trustee, or steward, of the content broadcast by licensed content creators in America has been made largely irrelevant by the Internet.

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