SoCal CTO
MAY 7, 2010
On my eLearning blog, I recently predicted the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. Someone said: "I am not sure I am ready to bet on the long slow death of Flash just yet." What does it mean to "place bets" on death of Flash? Short Adobe stock?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. They said I don’t understand mobile. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
increasing dividends or issuing preferred stock). More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI. Semi, flash memory company Anobit, and security hardware – Authentec) to be integrated in various iStuff.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 12, 2012
the European leader in ride-sharing) and Shopmium (offering coupons via a mobile app) and as a result have contributed to creating close to 600 jobs. While our investment focus covers all of Europe, we consider France to be a very important market for our business and we are actively seeking new investment opportunities.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Because reports like this stand in the way of financial market manipulation and drive home the point that not all financial innovation is good and that stocks are not fungible commodities. Innovation is global, and risk capital is mobile. don’t like this report. The current IPO markets in the U.S.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2020
We had no point of sales system, we were literally taking IOUs in a cigar box from people for stuff like that because there was no electricity to actually run a cash register and we didn't have mobile registers back then in 2005. And I said, "Would you like a mobile trailer we can put here and you can just sleep in the trailer?"
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