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August 2007 - Posts
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08:50 AM Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Microsoft announced the acquisition of Parlano, maker of MindAlign , a group chat collaboration service. MindAlign makes it easy for groups of people to form around a topic, discuss it in real time chat (IM), and save the discussion for future reference. Read More...
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12:18 PM Monday, August 27, 2007
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Paul Graham is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Paul and Robert Morris founded Viaweb in 1995, the first online web store builder, and sold it to Yahoo in 1998. In 2005 they started Y Combinator, a seed stage investment company. I got to know Read More...
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01:39 PM Saturday, August 25, 2007
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Mark Cuban says " The Internet is dead and boring ". It is an attention grabbing headline but what he really means is that Internet bandwidth is not growing fast enough to support new innovative applications. The same could be said for cell phone bandwidth Read More...
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11:46 AM Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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The success of Google has spawned over 1,000 search related startups. Search market share is dominated ( 94% ) by the big five; Google 53%, Yahoo 20%, Microsoft Live 14%, AOL 5%, and Ask 2%. That leaves 6% for everyone else. However, remember that " 1% Read More...
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07:17 PM Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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I was meeting with a very successful VC firm in Boston today reviewing new companies and ideas. One of the partners asked me to characterize Web 2.0 startups. I said, half jokingly, "I think Web 2.0 stands for a web app, 2 founders and zero revenue." Read More...
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10:08 AM Monday, August 20, 2007
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Microsoft's Emerging Business Team is led by Dan'l Lewin with a charter to help startups build meaningful partnerships with Microsoft. Dan'l was interviewed recently by Tom Foremski, founder of SiliconValleyWatcher . The video interview is hosted at PodTech Read More...
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05:29 PM Thursday, August 16, 2007
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TechStars is a startup incubator based in Boulder, Colorado. TechStars selected 10 teams and provided funding of about $15,000 per team, free office space, operational support, and mentorship from former entrepreneurs and business leaders. TechStars takes Read More...
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07:10 AM Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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The New York Times shouts " Google goes after Microsoft again " by distributing Sun's StarOffice for free in Google Pack. Mary Jo Foley says " At long last, it looks like Microsoft Office, with its 90+ percent market share, may get some serious competition." Read More...
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08:53 AM Monday, August 13, 2007
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Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. Should I take Angel or VC money? How much money should I raise? How much equity should I give up? How much equity should I grant to early employees? There are some guidelines, but every Read More...
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12:06 PM Friday, August 10, 2007
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Y Combinator held its Demo Day in Boston unveiling 19 new startups to VCs and investors. The event was hosted by Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston . The companies covered areas like; video streaming; concert recommendations; enterprise wikis; a music Read More...
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10:11 PM Thursday, August 09, 2007
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Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly Windows Live Folders) announced a new beta release with several new features. The beta is currently open to users in the USA, UK, and India. Windows Live SkyDrive provides 500MB of online storage. You can save files in Read More...
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08:38 AM Tuesday, August 07, 2007
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Microsoft won a reversal of the $1.52 Billion judgment to Alcatel-Lucent covering MP3 patents. TechMeme has links to all the stories. The $1.5B judgment was the largest in patent history, and covered two patents around MP3 technology. Microsoft had previously Read More...
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03:35 PM Friday, August 03, 2007
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Wallop, Skinkers, and ZenZui are in the news. They are all startups based on technologies from Microsoft Research Labs. Microsoft has a relatively new program called IP Ventures designed to license Intellectual Property to external companies. There are Read More...
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11:51 AM Thursday, August 02, 2007
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John Dvorak, well known writer for PC magazine says " Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon ". John says we saw this before in 1999-2000 and the exact same thing will happen again. I don't think so. There are big differences between 1999 and 2007. Marshall Kirkpatrick Read More...
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