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- You shall not pass!!! (or IPO)
In light of all the recent Google App Engine coverage and fallout from the 37 Signals mishap, I think I’ll pass on rehashing the various intricacies of this new (and cool) service. Nevertheless, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures managed to stir up the finance community today with his post on the path to exits [...]
- Investment thesis v2 (this could be long)
I’ve been spending a pretty good amount of time (in between secret start up work) thinking about my personal investment thesis (v1 mentioned in a previous post) and have had some discussions regarding trends and things to watch out for. Eventually web 2.0 will transform into the next big trend with shiny buttons and stickers [...]
- Something slightly different…
Currently I am in the midst of a lot of different projects and have been pushing off writing a meaningful post for a few days. Although this does not count as “meaningful” it did manage to make me laugh given the portrayal of each of these internet stars. Enjoy the video and if YouTube removes [...]
- Wi-fi and more Google Gears
Despite all the April fools jokes that I could be posting and commenting on ( see Google’s Gday and the Techcrunch lawsuit) there was some great stuff posted today in the technology realm. First, allow me to step outside of my regular platform technologies ramblings and discuss some interesting developments in wifi sharing. Personally, arriving [...]
- Battle lines being drawn for future platform applications
As we all know, Google Docs has slowly but surely been advancing on Microsoft’s territory and is improving their service over time. Although currently they do not offer the specificity nor quality that the Office Suite does, they are making gains each day and the features that continue to be added are directly linkable to [...]
- Building an investment thesis
Recently as part of my work with a venture capital firm here in Indy (PSVF), I was tasked with developing my own personal investment thesis. This task was largely focused on finding out what areas of investment I would consider to be my expertise and as such, which ones I would be able to make [...]
- Could it be? More web-platform reading.
Well, since I seem to be obsessed with talking about web as a platform I thought I’d just throw up a link for the reading I’m currently doing. Check out Mozilla Prism (their version of a desktop-to-web application). Seems pretty cool so far and is a nice alternative to Air or others. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
- Web services continue to trend in a useful direction
This week seemed slightly slow on tech related news items that really peaked my interest and I was really struggling for good material to cover. Yes, there were some cool things happening but really, I didn’t grasp on to any particular story and really say “wow, that’s cool” until well, today. Today Amazon opened up [...]
- Opening Platforms and Falling Valuations
Although today’s posts have been fairly heavily covered by the major tech blogs of the world, I felt that a closer look at some recent announcements might be worth a discussion. First, the huge registration of domains for the Spitzer controversy is hilarious, most notably, spitzerswallows.com (genius), but I digress. The real topics surround platforms [...]
- FOWA: day 3 cont.
So, after speaking with certain individuals, I have come to find out that I “rushed” the last day description and really left everyone hanging, wondering what really happened. The actual conference day was by far and above the best day of the trip and will be invaluable for future startups that I may encounter. In [...]
