Dive into the archives.
- Hedge Funds and Credit Derivatives
First off, I realize that my posting has been extremely light lately and that mostly is a direct result of it being my last few weeks of the MBA program. In any case, yesterday and today I came across some very interesting articles and managed to have a good discussion with one of my old [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- Google Gears and Municipal bonds! Huzzah!
So following with tradition I have two things of note to discuss for this week’s articles. In the first case, and as a sort of follow up to FOWA, Google Gears has gone mobile. Although this currently only applies to Windows Mobile 5 and 6, future plans should include Safari and thus the iPhone. For [...]
