SoCal CTO
MAY 31, 2008
Chris Gammil and I just spent some quality time together with a new, private group that is advising start-ups here in Los Angeles. The goal is to have start-ups learn from each other and from others who have been through the experience. So, far it's turning out great. The primary question we ask is: What's Keeping You Up at Night Chris provided a list of common issues: How much is enough?
Professor VC
JUNE 6, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Friday, June 6, 2008. Is it the Horse or Jockey? It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders).
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Eric Friedman
JUNE 6, 2008
I just downloaded and installed the new Flickr software for Blackberry users. It does not work yet on my Blackberry Curve giving me the following error but I am sure it will be fixed soon. Uncaught exception: net.rim.device.api.system.UnsupportedOperationException. There are a ton of people out there who want to use Flickr and having an official app is certainly great.
BeyondVC
JUNE 5, 2008
The world that we live in trades on reputation. What that means is that eventually whether you are raising capital or landing new customers, your references will matter. If you are an entrepreneur, a VC will want to do some deep reference checks on you and also on any major customers or partners. If you are trying to land that big customer, naturally the sales propsect will ask to speak with other customers to get a better understanding of the technology and your service.
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
Jason Ball
JUNE 5, 2008
Library House's newsletter yesterda y (free registration req'd) highlighted an article by David Storey in the FT- making the case that there is no correlation between an experienced entrepreneur/management team and a company's success. Storey summarises this belief [that failure is accepted in the US, and that it is a source of learning] to dismantle it, arguing that knowledge gained from a failed business makes little difference to future business success, due to the unpredictabilit
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Eric Friedman
MAY 31, 2008
I was handed a flyer the other day for a new delivery service in Manhattan called Wakozi.com. The interface is cool and I may check it out next time I need instant delivery. It definitely looks interesting but I sure miss the days of Kozmo.com 1 hour delivery of anything you wanted.
Eric Friedman
JUNE 1, 2008
On a recent blog post on the Live Search blog I read that the book search division will be winding down and closing soon. It is my understanding that they will now be turning over the investment in hardware and software to those that can use them thus subsidizing what would normally be a high cost project to scan books. They will also be looking to the book publishers and other sources to simply index libraries that are put in front of their spider vs creating the content themselves.
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