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- What have we done?
- We are in deep doo-doo if people are only now discovering that Internet entrepreneurs need to get people to pay for things instead of just giving everything away for free. Is such a concept so novel? by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Geometry, Conventional Wisdom, Money, Fred Wilson, Blogging, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-02-07
- Charles River Ventures' Quickstart: Good move
- Dilution is the greatest challenge an entrepreneur faces. Early in the life of a company, when there are a lot of good ideas and very little in the way of resources to make them happen, a lot of people give up way too much of their company to get some...
- Tags: investor, entrepreneur, CRV
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Yahoo's potential mates
- Fred Wilson speculates about potential buyers of Yahoo if it were available, and any company is available for a price. AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, News Corp. came up, but Fred concludes that Microsoft would be the most likely match.Microsoft can afford Yahoo! and a combined MSN/Yahoo! would certainly be a...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo!s
- Blog posts 2006-10-15
- What Fred said
- Fred Wilson summarizes all the reasons why network neutrality, the idea that carriers should be providing IP connections for a flatTraffic flowing creates value, interference subtracts value. fee and staying out of the way of traffic on the network, is important to network services, carriers and, most importantly,...
- Tags: carrier
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
Additional Resources
- News to know: Windows 7; RIM; Botnet hijack; Amazon
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: What to expect from Windows 7. Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: So many Microsoft codenames, so little time... The...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Twitter's big day: Revenue plan? Google deal? Oprah's touch?
- Twitter co-founder Evan Williams sent out the cryptic tweet earlier today - and now, some tidbits of information have trickled out, giving us some things to ponder as it relates to this news. Of course, the big news would be a revenue model...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Dear Facebook: If Rosetta Stone can go public so can you
- Facebook is reportedly in the market for more funding at a valuation of either $2 billion or $4 billion and neither is all that palatable when you did a Microsoft deal valuing the social networking company at $15 billion. Perhaps Facebook should just skip this round and...
- Tags: Facebook, Wilson, IPO, Investment, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Google's VC fund: Would you rather have a dividend?
- Google has a bevy of side projects and now there's another one: A reported $100 million venture capital fund. Google announced its venture fund on its blog post and like all things the search giant does it has garnered a lot of attention Techmeme. Google says: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Venture-capital Fund, Dividend, Intel Corp., VC, Intel Capital, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- News to know: Windows Mobile 6.5; Red Hat; CRM; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, where's the beef? Image Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots Garett Rogers: Microsoft responds to Android with Windows Mobile...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Red Hat Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Obama to tap Genachowski as FCC chief
- President-elect Barack Obama reportedly is set to name Julius Genachowski the chief of the Federal Communications Commission. Citing sources, the Wall Street Journal reported that Genachowski, Obama's technology adviser, would be nominated for the FCC slot. The Journal writes: Genachowski served as the...
- Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Journal, Federal Government, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Information Age versus Tactile Experience
- Venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early stage fund specializing in investing in IT enabled services 'that have the potential to change the structure of markets', blogged ideas yesterday about the internet's disruption of retail. This is epitomized by the sad state of...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Mail-order, Internet, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
- Hands up who's tired of Twitter?
- While I didn't have time to reflect on the top management changes at Twitter last week, I'm not surprised. Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams have swapped seats for one reason: Jack's a code jock and Ev's the biz guy. Andy Beal almost nails it: Sure, it sounds amicableâ€"which is...
- Tags: Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Wall Street's Pain = Tech's Gain
- The Dow is down just 28 points, to 10,993, as this gets typed at midday Friday. Maybe everyone who wanted to head to the exits already has. In meantime, the dysfunction on Wall Street should redound to New York's advantage -- in technology. The reason: Wall Street...
- Tags: New York, Wall Street, Venture Capital, Investment, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware’s Datacenter OS: Windows isn’t the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- US money heads to European startup, Zemanta
- This morning's feeds carried repeated mentions of a new and relatively small investment in a young startup called Zemanta. In itself, nothing that interesting. The story had added bite, though, because the investor was American and the startup European. Not Irish, or Dutch, or British, or French, or German....
- Tags: Investment, Zemanta, Social Networking, Semantic Web, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer? Vista SP1 available in more languages There's more than one way to mesh Larry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers;...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Telephony, Channel Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- News to know: The week in video; Software licensing doomed?; Windows Mobile UI; Microhoo
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Traditional software licensing: Could a customer revolt cook the model? The week in video: Cisco's virtual health care project Sun Labs looks into 'proximity communications' RSA 2008: Sizing up security RSA 2008: Emerging tech...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Microhoo, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Patches, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- News to know: OOXML; Adobe AIR for Linux; Copyright; Best midrange hardware
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking OOXML standard vote down to the wire  Christopher Dawson: OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care? ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Photo-sharing, Dashwire, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
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