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October 2007 - Posts
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11:13 AM Sunday, October 28, 2007
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Facebook is the social network taking the world by storm. It is truly amazing, and I think it is here to stay...not just a fad. However, I think college students have a different definition of "friends" than I do, and different ways of "knowing" people. Read More...
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12:17 PM Saturday, October 27, 2007
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Microsoft has changed a lot in the past 5 years. In fact, new employees, hired in the last 5 years, out-number all employees hired previously. Ray Ozzie , who I worked with at Groove Networks, has taken over for Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect Read More...
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05:09 PM Friday, October 26, 2007
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Last night I was at The 360 Summit held at The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Francois Gossieaux and Susan Bird invited prominent bloggers to attend and join the conversation. There was a cocktail reception on the trading floor of the NYSE. It was interesting Read More...
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03:06 PM Friday, October 26, 2007
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Microsoft ( MSFT ) reported strong results for the September quarter with revenues up 27%. This is the third quarter in a row with revenue growth of 20% or more. Larry Dignan at ZDnet says " Can't we give Microsoft some props?" . Paul Graham and others Read More...
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11:21 AM Saturday, October 20, 2007
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Steve Ballmer is on stage at Web 2.0. Steve explained that Microsoft is a big company and competing in lots of areas. Microsoft is not a one trick pony . Obviously the Windows Vista operating system, both client and server, are huge businesses. SQL Server Read More...
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11:19 AM Saturday, October 20, 2007
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John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley legend. He made some of the most successful investments in the history of venture capital. Some of the big ones include; Google, Amazon, Intuit, and Sun Microsystems. John did an interesting session at Read More...
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09:27 AM Friday, October 19, 2007
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Steve Ballmer said today that Microsoft will acquire 20 companies a year for the next 5 years ranging from $50 Million to $1 Billion. In fact, Microsoft has been very active on the acquisition front for the past several years. Wikipedia keeps a fairly Read More...
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11:16 AM Thursday, October 18, 2007
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Rupert Murdoch ( NYSE: NWS ) and Chris DeWolfe (co-founder of MySpace) were on stage at Web 2.0 last night. Fascinating interview. MySpace was acquired by News Corp for $580M two years ago. Today it could be worth more than 10 times that...maybe more. Read More...
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03:26 PM Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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Today at the Web 2.0 Conference, Atlassian announced their Sharepoint Connector for Confluence, and Newsgator announced Newsgator Social Sites for Sharepoint. Richard MacManus from Read/Write Web has a good interview with the CEO of Atlassian. Robert Read More...
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05:58 PM Tuesday, October 09, 2007
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The only thing better than a "Yes" is a quick "NO". When you are raising money, selling a customer, or trying to get a deal done, it is the long drawn out process that never ends that will kill you. It is the same thing with startups. Being successful Read More...
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05:56 PM Tuesday, October 09, 2007
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This week I will be at Tech 2007 , and next week at Web 2.0 in San Francisco. The week before was DEMO 2007 , and TechCrunch40 before that. Then there is Defrag in Denver on November 5th. This is the tech conference season. The fun part is that I have Read More...
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09:09 AM Saturday, October 06, 2007
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Dan'l Lewin is our Corporate VP in charge of the Emerging Business Team at Microsoft. Earlier this week we announced the Startup Accelerator Program to provide deep support for selected startups building applications on the Microsoft platform. Om Malik Read More...
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12:17 PM Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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Microsoft's Emerging Business Team announced today the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program . The program is designed to help high potential software startups get access to Microsoft people and programs, guidance on future directions, and support to Read More...
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09:31 AM Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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MyPunchbowl.com , a party planning web site, announced a seed round of funding led by Intel Capital and eCoast Angels . MyPunchbowl.com provides an easy way to plan an at-home party with an innovative user interface for every phase of planning. Hosts Read More...
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