BeyondVC
APRIL 11, 2007
As a VC that invests in early stage companies, part of my job is to discover new opportunities and business models. While much of today’s online and social networking growth is being driven by teens and college students, very rarely do I get the opportunity to learn about interesting companies through the eyes of my young children. It started about 6 months ago, when my son came home from school talking about a build-your-own penguin site.
Cracking the Code
APRIL 13, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, April 13, 2007. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transforming the software industry. In the past seven years, Internet has changed the business landscape and software has not been an exception to the rule.
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Occam's Razor
APRIL 10, 2007
The VP of a Fortune 100 company recently asked for some advice. They were heading into their peak selling season that would last only three months max, and they only had an ability to measure revenue from the website, nothing else. They did not have any web analytics tool. Her question was: Which analytics tool do you recommend because we want to improve our website and increase sales.
aweissman.com
APRIL 13, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 13, 2007. The search war is over, Google has won, and I couldnt be happier. Its being widely reported that Googles share of the U.S. search market has climbed yet again. This data is consistent with two points Ive recently found. On the quantitative side, 6 weeks into the initial launch of Carmun , we see that about 60% of the initial traffic has come from search engines, and of that search traffic close to
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
BeyondVC
APRIL 11, 2007
The alarm bells are ringing in the web world (see the Techmeme discussion) – one of the gorillas in the space is flexing its muscle and protecting its turf as MySpace is preventing Photobucket photos and videos from appearing on its site. As Om Malik mention s, this happened once before and I am sure the MySpace folks have done some hard thinking about whether or not their users will vote with their feet and leave, and if they do, what kind of impact it will have on its business.
BeyondVC
APRIL 9, 2007
I was in a board meeting last week, and as we reviewed the results one item quickly jumped off the page – the company did a great job signing up a couple of Tier 1 partners but a less than stellar job driving results. This was not surprising as what happens more often than not is that we can get caught up in the thrill of the chase, signing a big deal for example, but forget that the real work begins after the deal is inked and the press release hits the wire.
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