I really enjoyed the Boston Angel Boot Camp on June 1. A shout out to Jon Pierce for a job well done. Among the many great discussions, the most critical one in my mind centered on the impact that the source of money can have on an early, seed startup. The discussion covered two main […]
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Google Buzz is an Outlook/Exchange/Azure killer
Google Apps has seen good but not crazy growth in the enterprise because as with most early products, its feature set is good but not great as compared to the incumbent Microsoft suite. Many of us have been willing to bite the feature bullet to move the care and feeding of Outlook and Exchange to […]
Continue Reading...Awesome — OTA for Google contacts and calendar and the Iphone is awesome
I have been a big fan of Google’s apps strategy and have been a big proponent of google docs, having all of the company on it with our own domain for over a year. But I have been so frustrated with the lack of seamless contact integration with my phones — blackberry or iphone. 3 […]
Continue Reading...Now Web 2.0 is Dead. Aagh!
Oh Brother. Here we go again. The death knell to Web 2.0 has been sounded. Abandon ship!! Everybody to the life rafts. The end is near. Every man for himself. It amazes me — no actually it doesn’t — that no sooner do some Web 2.0 companies kick the proverbial bucket, then the entire space […]
Continue Reading...Vertical is Back?
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...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...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 […]
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