BeyondVC
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
It is great to see my friend Andrew Erlichson getting some rave reviews for Phanfare Photon , his iPhone photo app. According to ReadWriteWeb: "Phanfare's Photon is currently the best photo sharing and photo management app on the iPhone. It is important to note that Photon puts less emphasis on social feature than other services like Radar , which we reviewed last week.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Prominent finance publications like the WSJ and the Motley Fool along with several bloggers have recently taken shots at Google with respect to their decision to re-price a boat-load of employee stock options. Just to review the details, in their last earnings call google management stated that they would offer all employees with options that have strike prices above the [.].
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SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times.
Andrew Payne
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
David Pogue wrote today about the 15,000 apps now available in the iPhone app store. It’s pretty amazing. But where’s the app store for Mac and Windows? . Buying apps on-line is not a new concept: I’ve got a handful of “indie” apps that I use regularly, and many big-name apps can be now bought on-line. But Apple’s nailed the user experience for shopping and purchasing: User reviews.
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
Hacking Startups
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
'Git makes it possible for a programmer to do most work on a branch that’s not pushed to any repository coworkers see. This is a bad idea. The only justification I’ve seen was that the practice “ let[s] you do some bonehead moves without your co-workers ever having to know ” You should not need to hide your code from your coworkers.
Altgate
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Atlas Ventures Crash And Burns TheFunded Coming To Boston → How Not To Do Customer Support Posted on February 4, 2009 by fnazeeri This is off topic, but so darn funny I have to share. It's basically two and half minutes of gut wrenching agony listening to some guy try to explain to Verizon why $0.002 is not 0.002¢. Share and Enjoy: This entry was post
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Andrew Payne
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
I got a big chuckle out of this article from CNN , about consumers canceling cable service and turning to the Internet for TV. The analyst/pundit comments reminded me of the Internet naysayers from the mid 90s: The brutal economy may motivate some consumers, like the Wynsmas, to switch to Web-based TV, but it won’t necessarily hurt the cable or satellite TV business, which has historically been recession-proof.
Hacking Startups
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
Git makes it possible for a programmer to do most work on a branch that’s not pushed to any repository coworkers see. This is a bad idea. The only justification I’ve seen was that the practice “ let[s] you do some bonehead moves without your co-workers ever having to know ”. You should not need to hide your code from your coworkers. Even your experimental code.
Altgate
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Thoughts On Market Timing But What Does It Mean? → Bill Gates Releases Mosquitoes At TED While Talking About Malaria & Education Posted on February 6, 2009 by fnazeeri Bill is a smart guy, but man is he an average speaker!
Andrew Payne
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Any entrepreneur considering angel funding should read today’s NY Times article “ Angel’s Flee From Tech Startups “, and some of the followup commentary. Angel investors, unlike most professional investors, control most of their investment portfolio. If their equity investments drop (say) 35%, then they can immediately say “ whoa!
Seeing Both Sides
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Billed as "Silicon Valley meets Madison Avenue", today's AlwaysOn conference in NYC was somewhat reassuring. Attendence was up from previous years and attendees were there to do business - raise money, look for deals, develop partnerships. A few highlights: Ad Networks 3.0 : panelists argued that there remained a huge opportunity, despite investor fatigue in yet another ad network.
Altgate
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← How Not To Do Customer Support Thoughts On Market Timing → TheFunded Coming To Boston Posted on February 4, 2009 by fnazeeri Put this event in your calendar. On Tuesday, March 10 at 7pm TheFunded is hosting its first event in Boston.
Andrew Payne
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Remember Sun’s vision for Java: client-side applets, downloaded on the fly, running in/alongside the browser? It was a great vision, but Microsoft moved to block browser adoption and Sun botched it. After nearly 15 years, client-side Java never really hit critical mass. Instead, the original vision has quietly been realized by Adobe Flash. What happened?
Altgate
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← TheFunded Coming To Boston Bill Gates Releases Mosquitoes At TED While Talking About Malaria & Education → Thoughts On Market Timing Posted on February 5, 2009 by fnazeeri A while ago I wrote about an HBS paper that showed entrepreneurial success is driven by two distinct skills of the founder: market timing skill and managerial skill.
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