April, 2006

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

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I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ). At Kinnernet, I had the privilege to spend time with some great people from Israel, Europe, and the US.

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Lessons Learned: A Successful VC Reflects on his Experience.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Questions for Entrepreneurs | Main. | The Equality Conundrum: Where 50-50 equals Zero » April 24, 2006. Lessons Learned: A Successful VC Reflects on his Experience. Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition.

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MMOs (MMORPGs) Continue to Rock

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MMOs (MMORPGs) Continue to Rock There is a great deal of interesting activity in MMO land these days. You may remember that we highlighted the invest-abilty of this trend/category about 18 months ago. Despite my enthusiasm, I could have never anticipated the massive impact of World of Warcraft. It appears today to be the most [.

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VCs and VOIP

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Here is a link to an article on VCs and VOIP (via Andy Abramson of VOIPWatch). There are some VCs who think it it too crowded and others (like myself) who still see opportunities. However, the one thing I was not pleased about is that the only quote the author uses for me did not include the rest of our conversation. I should have just pointed her to my blog post from last September on the topic where I say that: This battleground is about software and not devices which is why I believe companie

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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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Can Microsoft reinvent itself?

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Microsoft released its third quarter numbers the other day and while revenue growth was strong, the stock got hammered and dropped over 10%. Why? Microsoft plans on investing for the long term and putting another $2b into the Internet and other new technologies like the XBox. To sum it up, here is Rick Sherlund, Goldman Sachs’ Software analyst, "It sounds like you’re building a Google or building a Yahoo!

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DIY in the Enterprise

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As I wrote last year, this " web as platform " gospel is starting to spread quickly from consumer to thoughts on the enterprise. In my mind, what has enabled this enterprise web phenonomenon has been two thoughts – lightweight and simple. Of course, lightweight and simple equals cheap and fast to implement. It is quite easy now for sophisticated users to find and download new software and run it themselves, for them to take simple scripts and tie together various web apps.

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Board Seats for Angels in Startups - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Entrepreneurial Outsourcing | Main. | Who is your competition? » April 21, 2006. Board Seats for Angels in Startups. Should Angels be compensated for work as directors of the companies in their portfolios?

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Red Boss – will it truly be open?

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It seems that the open source business model has been top of mind for many in the technology industry as of late. First comes Checkpoint’s attempted purchase of Sourcefire and now comes Red Hat’s announcement that it will acquire JBoss. The acquisition price of $350mm is pretty sweet validation for the open source model considering that the multiples are about 20x trailing revenue ($20mm estimated revenue in 2005) and 6-7x forward ($50-60mm estimate for 2006).

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Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « "What Makes an Attractive Angel Investment" | Main. | The best salesperson is. » April 12, 2006. Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor. Of course, not all money is created equal.

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"What Makes an Attractive Angel Investment" - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « What is the angel pondering? Eight points | Main. | Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor » April 11, 2006. "What Makes an Attractive Angel Investment". This is an overview prepared by the Marquette Golden Angels Network for entrepreneurs.

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Why SOX Will Lead to the Demise of U.S. Markets

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Everyone should read this article from the CEO of Nasdaq. He is properly concerned that the overly bureaucratic Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) processes could lead to the end of global domination by the U.S. capital markets. Ironically, the two gentlemen that created SOX did it with the intention of “preserving” U.S. capital market leadership. Their fear was [.].

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As Wifi Grows, So Do the PR Attacks

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