Zoho: Web-based office work (5)
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Today at Office 2.0 I spent a while talking with Raju Vegesna, evangelist for Zoho, a software maker in Pleasanton, Calif. (they're about 5 minutes from my home). Originally I planned to conduct a video interview, but the venue was terribly loud, so I'll embed Robert Scoble's interview with Vegesna on FastCompany.tv a few days ago (below), and offer a few notes. I'm a big believer in the cloud — the idea that we're moving ...
Office 2.0: VCs say the future looks good (5)
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A panel of venture capitalists sounded cautiously optimistic about about the future of “enterprise 2.0″ this morning at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Some of the big themes were pretty familiar (hey, did you hear that the online subscription business model, a.k.a. software-as-a-service, still needs time to mature?), but it’s important to understand how these guys see the market — and what companies they’re willing to spend money on. The biggest point of ...
Submit Your Toughest Questions For VCs on TechCrunch50 Panel (5)
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We’re all gearing up for TechCrunch50 next week, and with all the startups and venture capitalists at the conference we thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about what it takes to get VC funding these days and whether or not venture capital even maters as much as it once did. I will be grilling a panel of VCs on what they are looking for these days, how spooked they are by the ...
The Art of Raising Venture Capital (36)
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These videos are my recent attempt to explain the art of raising venture capital. They are part of the Montgomery & Hansen online learning site and conference. For example, to learn about financing agreements and the term-sheet process, click here. Click on these links for up-to-date information about venture capital, startups, and pitching.
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Rick Umali said:
Amazingly, this is the first time I've ever heard Guy speak. Not sure why I haven't before. This is just a splendid set of videos. He's inspiring and great!
Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year (3)
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Late last year, there was a rumor going around that Facebook expected to make up to $40 million from its virtual gifts feature in 2008. I never got that number confirmed. But in January, Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners analyzed the company’s gift sales and concluded that they would yield $15 million this year. Today, he’s revising that revenue number to be between $28 million and $43 million. Facebook has seen a great increase ...
Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin Leaked (33)
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A few sources have alerted me to a project that Facebook has been working on: integrating Facebook Connect directly with Wordpress. For all you developers that also thought that building a Facebook Connect plugin would be brilliant idea, you might want to stop development. While the timetable for releasing this plugin isn’t clear, there’s a good chance that it will be released in the coming weeks. Facebook Blog Comments Facebook Connect is still in beta ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
I'm not happy about this being an internal Facebook project - they essentially ruined about 20 hours of my time working on the exact same thing. Blog post coming soon.
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David said:
Fuck facebook.
Facebook selling digital gifts at a $35m run rate (11)
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In January of this year, we estimated that Facebook was selling digital gifts worth $15m per year. We based this estimate on an analysis of the number of each gift available each week over a 7 week period. Facebook creates a certain fixed number of each type of gift. When the number remaining for any particular gift drops below 100,000, Facebook displays the number left. (The most common size runs are 100,000 and 1,000,000 but ...
How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two) (87)
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Jason Calacanis’ just posted part two of his “how to demo a startup” advice to his email list earlier today. Part one with his initial advice is here. Last week Jason coordinated rehearsal demos at Sequoia Capital for the companies that are launching at TechCrunch50 on September 8-10. He spends a lot of time with each company and gives solid advice for improving the messaging. The full text of Jason’s email is below. You can ...
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Moah said:
Jason is as self promoting as bloggers come. Most of this was covered in 6.UAT. But not bad to review them once in a while
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Read, repeat. Unglaublich, wie viele es nciht hinbekommen, enie spannende Präsentation (für durchaus spannende Produkte) hinzubekommen.
Predictably Irrational is fascinating (1)
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Dan Ariely shares with his readers the results of dozens of experiments where he tested people’s decision making ability. Not only are people much less logical than they think they are, but they are predictably and repeatedly irrational! He finds out that we are easily swayed by emotions, social norms and even words we read! This fun light hearted introduction to behavioral economics is a fun read and a fantastic complement to The Logic of ...
Three Web 2.0 Questions (6)
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The producers of web 2.0 NYC asked me to answer these three questions for the Web 2.0 NYC blog: 1) What are the biggest differences between the east coast and west coast web communities? The biggest difference is that NYC is home to a number of industries that have much larger communities than web technology. In the bay area, technology is the dominant industry. What that means is people who work in web technology in ...
Venture Capital: Monster venture firm continues to raise funds (1)
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"ROB MONSTER STIRRED the venture capital pot last summer when the entrepreneur turned angel investor launched Monster Venture Partners, saying at the time that venture capitalists deserved a "bad rap" for putting entrepreneurs in the "back corner."Now, after a very active year in which Monster placed bets on more than 20 early-stage startup companies and hired two experienced partners, the former chief executive at Global Market Insite continues to push the envelope. And, at least ...
Rules For Bootstrappers (Part 1) (1)
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By Greg Gianforte, Guest Author [SM: On the heels of my Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction column, I’d like to welcome Greg Gianforte, CEO of RightNow, whose interview you have read recently, to share his perspective on bootstrapping.]
A Fun Job For A Strong Graphic Designer (1)
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In two and half weeks, I am going to deliver a web 2.0 keynote titled:New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendant As many know, we created a wiki and I asked people to contribute ideas to it. And they did. NYC's web history has been outlined on this page. And we've got a bunch of great images on this page. I've got a pretty good idea of what I want ...
Mark Zuckerberg pokes Ev Williams by copying Twitter [Facebook] (8)
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Imitation is the soul of flattery, and the engine of Silicon Valley. Whatever can be copied, will be — especially when the copiers are pals. After a redesign, Facebook has made its status-update feature more prominent. It now asks users, "What are you doing right now? A sharp-eyed reader notes that those words are eerily similar to Twitter's "What are you doing?" We wonder if this will pose any problems for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's ...
Mark Zuckerberg pokes Ev Williams by copying Twitter [Facebook] (1)
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Imitation is the soul of flattery, and the engine of Silicon Valley. Whatever can be copied, will be — especially when the copiers are pals. After a redesign, Facebook has made its status-update feature more prominent. It now asks users, "What are you doing right now? A sharp-eyed reader notes that those words are eerily similar to Twitter's "What are you doing?" We wonder if this will pose any problems for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's ...
A Newbie&8217;s Guide to Startup Compensation (or &8220;Stock Options will Make Me Rich!&8221;) - Tony Wright dot com (13)
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My first experience with stock options was at the ripe age of 34 years old, when I was selling Jobby (retired) to Jobster (Gah, make the Web 2.0 names STOP!). Before that, I’d been running my own business for close to a decade– with good success, but there really wasn’t any sense in setting up an options plan. So when selling our company and getting presented with a cash/stock options package, I was damn excited ...
