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 18, 2007
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Dont click on this link! Devils link.it will hurt your productivity seriously! Desktop Tower Defense is the most addictive online game I have ever played with.and it is entirely browser based, so no need to download an additional client to your PC.
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SoCal CTO
APRIL 20, 2007
I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. Really fun stuff these days. One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0 type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS.
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.
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
aweissman.com
APRIL 30, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 30, 2007. Carmun Links. Some comments on Carmun from around the world today: Networking aims beyond facebooks: Boston Globe New Resource Rating and Sharing site: Out of the Jungle Carmun: Helpful Student Tool or Evil Conspiracy -- Connecting the Dots. Tags: carmun. at 2:37 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment.
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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.
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.
aweissman.com
APRIL 26, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 26, 2007. Educational tides. " Surely this is exactly what an education institution should want – collaborative learning. They’re always banging on about the collaborative environment of a school, college or university, so why not accelerate this using the very technology that the students use anyway.
aweissman.com
APRIL 24, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 24, 2007. What does open mean? Great definition: "Open data is to media what open source is to technology. Open data is an approach to content creation that explicitly recognizes the value of implicit user data. The internet is the first medium to give a voice to the attention that people pay to it.
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
aweissman.com
APRIL 11, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 11, 2007. Iggy Pop. "Iggy Pop, now 59, is the captain of these inside-outside actions. Try to take your eyes off him. How he re-enacts fear, rage, sex, abject boredom, universal love and lethal cynicism, while dancing with originality, remembering lyrics and maintaining the delicate middle-state between having pants on and not having pants on, is why he is he, and you are merely you." -- New York Times , Ap
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