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Charles River Ventures' Quickstart: Good move

Charles River Ventures' Quickstart: Good moveYes, but...Entrepreneurs who are primarily worried about dilution are probably worried about the wrong thing. Yes, dilution isn't pretty, but it's the tradeoff you make to get funded. Would you rather be king of the garage or prince of the planet?And yes, it...

Tags: Financial accounting, Odeo, Charles River Ventures, CRV, investor, dilution

Discussion threads 2006-11-01

Obvious Odeo exit: Correcting mistakes

Venture capital and angel money is coveted in Silicon Valley. Everyone wants it, not everyone should be excited to get it. Case in point: Odeo, the audioblogging/podcasting startup that Ev Williams, Biz Stone and others bought from the previous investors today for an undisclosed amount.  Odeo was stuck trying to...

Tags: Podcasts, investor, podcasting, Odeo

Blog posts 2006-10-26

Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo

I caught up with Evan Williams at the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Evan was one of the founders of Blogger, which was sold to Google, and is now involved in the podcasting startup, Odeo. We discussed his views on podcasting...

Tags: podcast

Blog posts 2005-09-26

The Odeo Player 2.0 (Mac)

The Odeo Player is a free Apple Widget that makes it easier to listen to your favorite shows. If you have an Odeo account, the Player gives you quick and easy access to the shows in your Queue. If you don't have an Odeo account, just enter a custom feed...

Tags: Account, Apple Macintosh, Odeo, Odeo Player, Podcasts, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-09-23

Bodcasting

Splash! Fwoop! Znorf. It's the sound of nextgen RSS plays parachuting into the Valley, Rte. 128, and everywhere there's a broadband connection. Odeo, Brightcove, ourmedia, the Times--by this time next spring the forest will be thick with bees circling in search of unpolinated flowers. The RSS Bubble is here.The Ask...

Tags: toolbar, RSS

Blog posts 2005-03-01

Additional Resources

Twitter, the ultimate conference 'backchannel'

If the blogosphere is anything to go by, youd be forgiven for thinking that the South by Southwest Interactive Festival SXSWi was some kind of laboratory experiment designed to push the limits of Twitter, the micro-blogging platform created by Blogger and Odeo co-founder Evan Williams. Twitter is an SMS, IM...

Tags: Social networking, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Instant messaging, Cellular phones, Blogging, Twitter, SXSWi

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Can Google go too far?

Google has a funny corporate culture.It's based on trial-and-error, much like open source is based on trial-and-error. Some things work, some things don't. Microsoft has its WWE strategy, hiring wide-bandwidth brains and then setting them on one another in a cage. Yahoo has its Howard Stern strategy, where it seeks...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Danah Boyd on DOPA bill

Danah Boyd's blog post about the DOPA legislation cogently represents the young person's view of online rights and responsibility: This legislation broadly defines social network sites as anything that includes a Profile plus an ability to communicate with strangers. It covers social networking sites, chatrooms, bulletin boards. Obviously, the...

Tags: INTERNET, MySpace

Blog posts 2006-05-15

The only thing you can count on is change, the rest is S.H.I.T.

The only thing you can count on is change, the rest is S.H.I.T.Classyn/tWe've Only Just BegunYour blog speaks truth.Probably 99 percent of people think we're still in a Computer Age or Information Age. But what's really happened is 2000 was the end of a Kondrieff long wave...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, religion, S.H.I.T., Freud

Discussion threads 2006-03-14

Innovation 2.0: Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped

The question of "What is Web 2.0" has been debated at length in the blogosphere and in the alleys of the eponymous conference a week ago and I am not sure that we have come to any agreement yet. For a quick review of related opinions, start with Tim O'Reilly's...

Tags: Podcasts, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Web, MSN, Google Inc., Web 2.0 company, large company

Blog posts 2005-10-17

Next generation tech leaders

As part of the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Sun co-founder and now venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Bill Joy moderated a panel entitled "Next Generation Leaders." The panelists see image below included Evan Williams, Founder of ODEO;...

Tags: Leader, MP3, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Blake Ross on Firefox vs. IE and other topics

Blake Ross is one of the co-creators of Firefox and is on a mission to make software for mere mortals. That's one of Steve Jobs' favorite phrases. Like Jobs, Blake is starting out young. The 20-year-old is on leave from Stanford, still working on Firefox, and has also started a...

Tags: Web browsers, Podcasts, Mozilla Firefox, Blake, Microsoft Internet Explorer, podcast

Blog posts 2005-09-26

The RSS Space: The Next Google

Recently I made an attempt at defining "The RSS Space". Based on some great discussions with VCs and wise people in the RSS business, we came up with the following categorization for RSS vendors: Publisher Services Sub-categories:...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-09-12

The RSS Crisis

In the new Gillmor Gang, just released on Podshow.com, I remind several of the Gangsters of Robert Scoble's late great RSS bandwidth crisis. You'll have to listen to the show for the context in which I brought this up, but here's the reason why the latest great RSS naming crisis...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-08-15

Wharton: podcasting here to stay

Knowledge@Wharton picked up the hot topic of podcasting this week. Experts at Wharton says it's the latest Web movement here to stay with advertising and subscription revenues eventually coming into play as business models emerge. The article cited Kendall Whitehouse, senior director of information technology at Wharton saying,...

Tags: podcasting

Blog posts 2005-07-15