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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

So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know

So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...

Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

2008 lousy year for VC investments. 2009 may not improve.

Nationally the VC funding was off 8% from 2007, reversing a four-year trend of growth. That's the conclusion of one national investment survey. One analyst of VC funding said he expects 2009 to see continued support of existing ventures, but a very tough atmosphere for any new ventures...

Tags: Financial, VC, Government, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financial Accounting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-01

Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley

It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...

Tags: Capital Efficiency, Chip, Corporate Communications, Financial, Financial Crisis, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Public Relations, Recession, Semiconductors, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, VC, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It’s a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

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