Each morning around 7AM we get a call from a salesperson from Citibank trying to sell us credit card protection (or some such nonsense). Around 6PM we get a call from another Citibank salesperson offering the same service. This goes on day after day. I am seriously considering canceling our Citibank cards and move exclusively [...]
Late-stage private companies seeking venture capital:
July 12, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Alien Technology (looking for $25MM) Good Technology (looking for $65MM) Celetronix USA (looking for $5MM) FireFly Mobile (looking for $10MM) Ygnition Networks (looking for $17MM) [via]
Judas Priest – firmly in the long tail…
July 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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The Long Tail (primarily for my Forum who had never heard of the concept)
July 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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More and more VCs are blogging (interesting article)
July 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
[via Sacred Cow] “So when an VC takes the time to actually transcribe their “internal conversationsâ€? on a blog, their posts often provide a revealing glimpse into the underlying business logic of our industry. One must remember, VCs paradoxically tend to NOT be early adopters. So this “VC Bloggingâ€? trend has been growing slowly but [...]
We made it to Vegas – Still wondering if I made the right deicsion $20K now or the possibility of $60MM.
July 8, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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Trendmapper – Neat application.
July 6, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Evan from Odeo turned me on to this new tool: http://www.trendmapper.com/wp/ Trendmapper is a tool to generate historical data from search engines. It contains a list of search phrases and will do a daily search for all of them. The amount of hits are recorded, and a chart is made on basis of the data [...]
No blogging until Monday (headed to Vegas)
July 6, 2005 By Leave a Comment
For some reason the traffic on this blog has increased significantly during the past week at last count we had around 200 regular readers. Given the increased traffic I thought it would make sense to go on vacation. I had intended to play in the WSOP (World Series of Poker) main event this week in [...]
Allen suggest planning to transition founders out of the company prior to founding.
July 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
If you are planning to start a company I highly recommend that you read Allen’s Blog entry titled: Some Tough Questions You Should Ask.
Real entrepreneurs don’t raise venture capital, according to Jason Calacanis.
July 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
After my last venture backed deal I can admit that I was fairly worn out by venture capital rat race. Jason Calacanis’ entry is an interesting point of view that is well worth reading. Take a look at the post on Sacred Cow. Why am I not raising venture capital for Weblogs, Inc? Let me [...]
