Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, January 07, 2009. Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard. Happy New Year 2009 and thank you for your continued readership! I am working on a post-mortem of the SaaS 13 Index for 2008, but before getting into these gloomy numbers, I thought I would start the year with something more refreshing.

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Altgate

JANUARY 5, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Layoffs In Venture Capital Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! → Top 10 Posts From 2008 Posted on January 5, 2009 by fnazeeri As ranked by traffic to website during the year (as opposed to when it was written): The Science & Art Of Term Sheet Negotiation 5 Reasons Convertible Debt Sucks Venture Debt For Startups Due Diligence – What To Expect How To Blog Like A P

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Lessons Learned office hours For me, there were plenty of surprises in the survey I conducted a few weeks ago. One of them was that multiple readers suggested holding "office hours" Q&A sessions in the Bay Area. Im not quite ready to put out a shingle and take over my neighborhood Starbucks, but I have accepted two invitations to speak in a similar format in the coming weeks.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 6, 2009

I have not done a links roundup in awhile but it helps me flush out links that I want to share. Each deserves a read and perhaps a short explanation – enjoy! Wells Fargo has a blog and is clearly thinking about their outbound marketing. Discovered via Dave Armano. Think your idea sucks? Do it anyway. via Jason Cohen. Lessons Learned. Via Seth Godin.

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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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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 3, 2009

Peter Rip , General Partner at Crosslink Capital recently authored a post on his blog EarlyStageVC that has been getting a lot of attention. Peter’s post “ The Coming Venture Capital Boom ” presents a view that is hard to find these days. I had a mixed reaction to Peter’s comments. To a large extent I agree with him that there will be another boom in venture capital.

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 6, 2009

This morning, a friend reported that Stowe, VT real estate is doing OK, in part because if you’re on the East coast, and you downgrade your Aspen aspirations a notch — you end up at Stowe. (I also learned that Stowe is a big AIG project , which was interesting). Similarly, McDonald’s is doing OK while Starbucks gets creamed. In tough & uncertain economic times, we all tend to downgrade in a sort of musical chairs: “A class” buyers downgrade to “B”,

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Altgate

JANUARY 9, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account → Quote Of The Day Posted on January 9, 2009 by fnazeeri We intend to continue forward and be very supportive of your down rounds this year.&# This from the head of Intel Capital while speaking at CES (according to Jeff Busang over at Flybridge Capital Partners ).

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 9, 2009

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← MicroISVs, Software Products and Startups: Software by Rob’s Most Popular Posts of 2008 Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce Sales 1000% Overnight → Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 9, 2009

I dodged the snowflakes and made the trek out to Sin City for this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Although attendence was down, it is still an insanely large audience of 130,000 attendees and 2,700 companies. CEA head Gary Shapiro reported in his keynote that industy sales were up over 5% and that 2009 will be flat or slightly down. Not bad if true.

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Altgate

JANUARY 7, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Top 10 Posts From 2008 Quote Of The Day → Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur! Posted on January 7, 2009 by fnazeeri I just read a great post over on TheFunded by an anonymous writer titled, “ Be Glad You Are An Entrepreneur In These Times!

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 7, 2009

I’ve written before about how the future of TV is IP-delivered. As more video comes on-line, cable packages will get unplugged just like analog phone lines. It’s no longer “if”, but “when”, and 2009 is looking like a good year. A few weeks ago, I finally set up a “real” computer for our main TV: a dedicated Mac Mini, wireless keyboard & mouse, and video camera, all hooked into a large LCD flat panel.

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Altgate

JANUARY 3, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Coming Venture Capital Boom Layoffs In Venture Capital → There Is Absolutely No Bubble In Technology Posted on January 3, 2009 by fnazeeri Recorded December 6, 2007. Don’t say you weren’t warned! Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups.

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Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← There Is Absolutely No Bubble In Technology Top 10 Posts From 2008 → Layoffs In Venture Capital Posted on January 4, 2009 by fnazeeri I just got off the phone with a friend who is founder/CEO of an early stage medical device company.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 6, 2009

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