There is a great piece in the Guardian today on the new vertical rage. The editor and analysts point to the IPOD’s success as a key indicator that a vertical model will wipe out horizontal plays. They compare this stream to the old IBM approach back in the 70’s and early 80’s to make everything […]
Continue Reading...Archive for October, 2006
Improving the predictive accuracy of commercial testing
There is an interesting blog written yesterday http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/ regarding possible subtexts to the Google purchase of YouTube. They suggest that Google is coming out with ways to help advertisers determine in which commercials will succeed and fail through online testing via something like YouTube. There is no question that the advertising needs to improve its […]
Continue Reading...Board Meeting Preparation
One of the cardinal tenets of running a good board meeting is to pre-meet with the board members on all basic facts and figures and avoid any surprises in the board meeting (unless they are very good, positive ones). If you provide the financials with enough advance notice before the board meeting and meet with […]
Continue Reading...Ease of Use and Integration Wins Again — YouTube
With all of the video sites out there, why did YouTube win? Fred Wilson does a great job of pointing out that ease of use and integration of YouTube into the larger ecosystem was the key. Its kind of a version of the saying “Good Marketing beats Better Technology” every day of the week. Ease […]
Continue Reading...Venture and YouTube
A number of posts have tried to figure out how much Sequoia is taking down in the Google/Youtube deal. The figure is pegged at $450 million or so based on the thinking that Sequoia has 1/3 of the company, having invested a total of $11.5 million in two rounds, the first coming in November of […]
Continue Reading...Are many of us living a better life than our parents?
I was at the rental car counter last night at 10:30 PM PST and a middle-aged man with a customer service tag on his shirt did a wondeful job processing my request. He wore a business shirt and tie, that seemed rather nice and I could tell that he he had experiencing tieing that tie […]
Continue Reading...Digital Native or Digital Immigrant
At the Longworth conference Bill Raduschel opined on the Digital Native/Digital Immigrant divide that has been around since Marc Prensky penned his article in 2001. What fascinates me is while the education world has discussed this topic considerably, my search on Google suggests that the technology world has been far quieter. Maybe I am dead […]
Continue Reading...Where are we headed? Enterprise 2.0?
I was at the Longworth Venture Partner conference in Boston yesterday. If you have had the chance to go and have not, I would recommend it. Its a concise use of time and they do a good job of covering the high points of what we are going through and are headed toward. I have […]
Continue Reading...Open Source — All the Way?
Another open source startup was funded not too long ago called Mulesource as reported in many places including Will Price’s blog http://willprice.blogspot.com/. The inevitable marches on — further commodizaiton of the IT infrastructure stack. Mule source is an open source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) that acts as transport vehicle for web services as they intermingle […]
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