SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. Will's post talks about lack of interest in working for startups here in Southern California, saying: we probably’d don’t have the: a) same support infrastructure (meet-ups, networking events, etc.); b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 16, 2007

I love Internal Site Search data. It is a amazing peek into customer intent, which usually is quite elusive in our normal clickstream data. I had first written about the wonders of site search analysis in a June 2006 post: Are You Into Internal Site Search Analysis? You Should Be. It is also covered in detail in Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. Google Analytics's launch of internal site search analysis today is a great excuse to revisit the world of site search.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I never made it to the Web 2.0 conference yesterday, and you know how I feel about that label :-). Anyway, I happened to be in San Francisco for a portfolio company board meeting and some other events. After a Nokia boat cruise with many of the team that launched the awesome Nokia Internet 810 tablet (I will get myself one of those), I had the opportunity to go to a MySpace party to celebrate the opening of their San Francisco office.

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Radiohead have taken their fate into their own hands - they’ve refused to sell their new album through iTunes (and apparently other online stores as well). I don’t think you can buy physical CDs either. Normally, I would cheer them on, but… The problem is, YOU CAN’T DOWNLOAD THE MUSIC. I put their release date in my calendar (I’m a pretty big radiohead fan).

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 14, 2007. Secular Advertising Shift. New York Times : "Last year, Nike spent just 33 percent of its $678 million United States advertising budget on ads with television networks and other traditional media companies. That’s down from 55 percent 10 years ago, according to the trade publication Advertising Age.".

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 13, 2007

as i have said before the big keep getting bigger and the low barriers to entry mean more and more small guys are fighting for crumbs. the only way to sustain is if dollars continue to flow from old media to new media and the pie continues to get larger. if it does not, watch out! clipped from news.yahoo.com. The catch, according to some, is that much of the money flowing toward the Internet is concentrated on a few dozen of the most popular sites.

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