BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Well, there is clearly lots of money sloshing around in alternative assets like hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital. That being said, I still believe there are plenty of great investment opportunities. In an earlier post titled, " Go Early, Go Late, or Go Home ," I shared some of my thoughts on what company stages of development looked attractive for investing.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

There has been lots of discussion about Tim O’Reilly’s Web2MemeMap. This is a nice graphical representation of what is happening in this next wave of the Internet. As an add-on to this, I thought I would compare and contrast some differences, all quite obvious, with the first euphoric Internet wave. I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." Web 1999/2000.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2005

Much focus has been put on the VOIP service market where you have the likes of Vonage and SunRocket (just announced another big funding round today) who want to replace your landline and the non-traditional players like Skype and now Google, AOL, and Microsoft. However, what is more interesting to watch for me is the battle between the incumbent phone equipment players and the new upstarts.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2005

W hat is clear to me is that companies that get it use the Internet in a big way as a sale s and marketing channel and even a delivery mechanism for their product s. Companies that don’t miss a huge opportunity. Siebel does not get it, Salesforce.com does. Skype gets it while Vonage does not. What I am talking about is reducing friction in your sales and implementation process.

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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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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

I was in a board meeting last week reviewing a product release schedule for the next year. I was extremely concerned that we missed the last release, and as we dug in deeper what we saw were a few features scattered throughout the schedule tied to deals that were just closed. Now this would not be a big deal if these requirements were market-driven features that were necessary for a number of customers.

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