Christopher Griffin on Startup Thinking

July 2008 - Posts

• 02:18 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008
  Jul 29 Tue

  Nuconomy Announces Integration with Kampyle

  Yesterday, Kampyle announced that is has integrated its feedback management platform into both Google Analytics and Nuconomy . I’ve been working with Nuconomy for a while and want to congratulate them on their continued push to create a ton of value Read More...
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• 03:01 PM Monday, July 28, 2008
  Jul 28 Mon

  Innovation Pace in Web 2.0 Monetization Seems Healthy to Me

  SiliconAlley.com carries a story today by Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News, complaining broadly about the “laziness” among web 2.0 startups toward innovating new forms of monetization for applications that the public seems Read More...
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• 08:48 PM Wednesday, July 16, 2008
  Jul 16 Wed

  Entellium Releases Rave CRM

  A recent uptick in coverage of Entellium’s new CRM applications continues with Marshall Lager’s post on destinationCRM.com . With the release of Rave Plus, Rave Complete, and Rave Insight, Entellium is giving every small business owner considering a CRM Read More...
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• 02:18 PM Tuesday, July 08, 2008
  Jul 08 Tue

  Michael Arrington is Flat-Out Wrong on This One

  Michael Arrington posted an interesting take on the Microsoft-Yahoo conversation today, and I think he’s mistaken in both his assumptions and his conclusions. The full post is here , but I’ve pasted his final paragraphs below: “Yesterday’s Read More...
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• 08:29 PM Thursday, July 03, 2008
  Jul 03 Thu

  Zino Society -- Some Startup Will Begin the Day with a Pitch and End it with $100k

  Yesterday I met with Mary Holmes from Seattle's Zino Society, an interesting group whose mission, among hosting a high degree of wine-oriented social events, includes supporting the growth and success of entrepreneurial ventures. The Society's history Read More...
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• 04:04 AM Thursday, July 03, 2008
  Jul 03 Thu

  What Half of Your Brain and Google Have in Common

  Several weeks ago I read a short profile in the Wall Street Journal about Charles Wolf, a man who, while suffering left-brain damage from multiple bouts with cancer, has managed to build an investment portfolio that has beaten the DJIA and doubled its Read More...
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• 04:11 PM Tuesday, July 01, 2008
  Jul 01 Tue

  Go Public? (Why Would Anyone Want To Do That?)

  Over the last few weeks I’ve seen an uptick in news articles citing the lack of tech IPOs (my colleague Don Dodge wrote on this just days ago). Don mentioned some of the macro-economic factors driving the dearth of tech IPOs. But there is another Read More...
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