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- (1) Venture Capital or Venture Capitalist The money or the person or organization that invests money in startup or small companies. A tremendous amount of venture capital has...
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- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?
- Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...
- Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Anthony Lilley doesn't seem keen on Web 3.0
- With Ian Davis and I packing to join the UK contingent hopping across the Atlantic to this week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, it was interesting to see Anthony Lilley's piece on Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in today's Guardian. He's clearly not a fan...
- Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Data, Semantic Web, VC, Nova, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Silicon Valley move over? NYC bullish on next Internet wave
- Insider Flash! Web 2.0 "prediction" heard today on the "street," the media capital of the world's streets, that is:Newspapers will be the largest video owners online, NOT broadcasters. What's more, when broadcast voice is on text, a new market will erupt.Who says and why?Sean Morgan, a serial Internet entrepreneur and...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Web content DNA Map: Copyright control, monetization online
- What is the Web’s copyright content DNA?Can it be mapped, tracked and appropriately monetized?Jim Brock believes so, and so does the company he founded, Attributor.Brock, Attributor co-founder and CEO, addressed the Magazine Publishers of America in New York City last week on how to “generate revenue and maintain control of...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Legal, Government, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google AdSense move over? Ecommerce meets contextual ad network in Tumri Publisher
- Does integrated online advertising and merchandising bring to mind “a romantic song set to light classical music”?Tumri Inc, named after the Indian Thumri genre of music, is aiming to build the world’s first online merchandising network and hopes its new Tumri Publisher launched today will be music to Web publishers’...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, ecommerce, CEO Interviews, Business Models, Advertising, AdSense
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- CBS Radio to Google, YouTube: No thanks, we built TargetSpot!
- What is TargetSpot? A revolutionary new advertising platform that enables businesses of all sizes and budgets to advertise their products and services to the ever-growing Internet radio listening audience. Streaming video capabilities soon as well. With TargetSpot, you can create ads using a suite of easy-to-use production tools...
- Tags: Advertising, Google, Google Ads, Local, Marketing, Media, Radio, VC, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Who needs Brightcove? VMIX video gets sexy
- Creative is sexy these days, for everyone. So proclaims VMIX.Dubbed the “Free video sharing and hosting community,” VMIX sounds like the latest, but certainly not last, valiant attempt to unseat Google’s almighty YouTube. VMIX, however, has set its competitive sights on a different online video leader, Brightcove. How does...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, VC, Venture Capital, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Why is Google afraid to buy Clear Channel?
- Google’s announcement of its radio ad sales brokerage agreement to resell less than 5% of number one radio station operator Clear Channel’s inventory came at a bad time, just days after Google declared its $3.1 billion all cash intended takeover of the Internet display business via DoubleClick.How so? While Google...
- Tags: Wall Street, Video, Radio, Google, Advertising, YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Microsoft vs. Google: Crazy acquisition strategies?
- Microsoft bidding up acquisitions on purpose? Robert Scoble headlines. Sound crazy? Another crazy DoubleClick fallout hypothesis: The losers were only interested in spying on DoubleClick operations. Would a Morgan Stanley managed multi-billion dollar sale of a competitively sensitive privately held business owned by professional investors really be run...
- Tags: Wall Street, Yahoo, VC, Venture Capital, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Google DoubleClick merger: Who wins, who loses
- What does it take to “make the Internet more efficient for end users, advertisers, and publishers,” all in one fell swoop? A single Google check for $3.1 billion made out to DoubleClick!Google’s world wide mastery of SPIN continues, big time, in its determined takeover of the World Wide Web:...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Advertising, Yahoo, Microsoft, Metrics, Google Ads, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- Google DoubleClick marriage (can be) risky business
- Google is darn confident in its ability to rule the Web. How confident? $3.1 billion worth. Yesterday, I chided Google for its heretofore philosophy of not wanting to pay up in acquisitions, the “crazy” buy-out model espoused by Google’s corporate development strategist Salman Ullah. But Google HAS bit...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Google buyouts are BAD business
- Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up! Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and “crazy” things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still “unclear” how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...
- Tags: YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Google Web fortune can be had!
- Economics lesson on how the “fundamental law of supply and demand” makes Google the “ultimate money making machine,“ courtesy of Read/WriteWeb.The lengthy presentation of the “fundamental law,” as translated by Alex Iskold, does not quite mesh with economic theory I was taught, at the New York University Stern Graduate School...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Business Models, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Google: Is the Web 2.0 honeymoon over?
- On Malik declared the end of Web 2.0 innocence last week. Many months ago, I warned that innocence is not an option in the Googlefied Web 2.0 world. (see Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!)What about Web 2.0 start-ups themselves?Do they believe the Google MyMaps enhancement means they will...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Google, Business Models, Google Software Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Health Care IT: $31 billion 'perfect storm'
- Health Care Information Technology HCIT is a niche market, a $31 billion niche, according to Cain Brothers, “investment bankers to the health care industry.”Raymond Falci, Managing Director, addressed the New York Software Industry Association this evening on the “Wall Street View” of the HCIT market opportunity.The Healthcare Information and Management...
- Tags: Wall Street, Enterprise, Venture Capital, VC, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time
- Is Google celebrating the "death" of Microsoft?Paul Graham believes so, proclaiming Microsoft to be rich but dead.But are Eric Schmidt and company really “not afraid of Microsoft anymore”? Hardly. Google does indeed fear Microsoft, big time, and rightly so.Below are just a few billion dollar reasons why, in rebuttal to...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Mobile, Microsoft, Metrics, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?
- Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Is Web 2.0 over? TechCrunch bails on startups
- TechCrunch goes pro: What’s the deal? I asked earlier this month.Michael Arrington, aka TechCrunch, now gives us the answer:Today we are announcing that we have acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction.Are congratulations in order? Hardly.Arrington “explains” his editorial about face with typical TechCrunch pragmatism:Since FC...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Self-Promotion, Business Models, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Web 2.0 video showcase: Acceptable.tv, Brightcove, Payoneer
- UPDATE: Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets! First Issue: NY Video 2.0 March Meetup Presentations at Columbia UniversityMTV Networks: Kenny Miller, EVP & Creative Director, Global Digital MediaBrightcove: Tony Dunaif, VP, Content PartnershipsPayoneer: Yuval Tal, FounderMTV Networkss Acceptble.TV: Kenny Miller“When watching isn’t enough, take control”...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
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