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Cracking The Code: Launch of the SaaS 13 Index!

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 25, 2008. Launch of the SaaS 13 Index! How are public SaaS companies doing in such a volatile market? To answer this question, I have created the SaaS 13 Index, defined as the sum of the market cap of the 13 pure SaaS vendors quoted on the Nasdaq.

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship. For golfers, Ben Hogans Five Lessons is a classic. While the golf courses and equipment have certainly changed over the five decades since this was published, this tutorial is still relied upon by professionals and amateurs worldwide. As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepren

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Lack Management Support or Buy-in? Embarrass Them!

Occam's Razor

You know exactly what is necessary in order for your company to achieve Web Analytics 2.0 greatness. You attend a conference and hear all the speakers share deep insights – that ends up depressing you rather than exciting you. At the end of one of my speaking engagements you come up and say " Thanks Avinash, that was really great, you've opened our eyes.

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The "free" business model

BeyondVC

Chris Anderson does a nice job of summarizing the rise of the "free" business model starting with the Razor/razor blade to the world of the web where he argues that all services eventually get priced at their marginal cost. And as Chris rightly describes, that price is quickly going to zero in a world of technology where Moore’s Law continues to hold and where storage costs are declining rapidly.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Ideas Are Easy - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Reducing Variability for First-time CEOs | Main. | Theres Only a Test if you Sign Up for It » February 25, 2008. Ideas Are Easy.but execution is hard. Its axiomatic that a bunch of bright people can dream up any number of ideas for startups.

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London Venture Capital Events

Jason Ball

A comment was posted earlier in the week asking what events are relevant for new arrivals in London looking to get involved in the venture/start-up comunity. I was looking for the same in 2004 and posted a short list in 2005. Here’s a revised short list of VC-related events in and around London, no particular order: Regular events : Internet People (no link).

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Email, Microsoft, Yahoo

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Feb 23, 2008. Email, Microsoft, Yahoo. There is one way that a Microsoft - Yahoo merger makes very important sense, and that area has as its base email. Yahoo mail, according to Wikipedia , has 260 million users. Microsoft Hotmail looks to have 280 million users. Putting aside all the chatter about search, display ads and content (total distraction that falls right into Googles hands), these are hugely importan

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To stealth or not to stealth

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And then there was Foundry. | Seth Levine

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Love revisited | Seth Levine

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