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02.08.07

Is all Fair in Love, War and VC Deals?
My Experiences, Social Media, Venture Capital
For years people have been complaining that the enormity and power of hedge funds has distorted the stock market, making it nearly impossible for individual investors to succeed. Well this same notion of ’market manipulation’ may have arrived in the Venture Capital land and if it’s true, everyone better be worried ’“ especially entrepreneurs. Fucked Google has an article stating that Sequoia, the ones who invested in YouTube (and Google) stands to make over $509M off its six month, $11 million dollar investment in YouTube. This profit is nearly twice the amount made by either of the YouTube co-founders. This begets the question: ...
02.07.07

Adobe Gets into the Enterprise 2.0 Arena
Social Media, Tech'nomics
From Gartner Research: On 31 January 2007, Adobe announced the acquisition of Antepo, an enterprise instant messaging (IM) company with presence capabilities. The Antepo technologies will be integrated into the Adobe Acrobat software family, which includes Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Connect. With Antepo, Adobe gains a presence engine which could potentially be tied to IP telephony infrastructure, federates with multiple IM networks and runs on Windows and Linux. The problem is that when I think Adobe, I think PDFs with a� little lock on them. I think documents where it is near impossible to cut and paste. I don't think collaboration.�
02.06.07

A Movie Worth Watching
Social Media, Tech'nomics
Viral marketing at its best: I checked my RSS reader tonight and got hold of this amazing video created by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. I found the video while reading Darren Herman's Blog and Darren got the video from his friend Greg. While I generally don't like to post the same stuff that others are posting, I'm making an exception because this video should be watched by everyone who in invested in transforming the world through the power of web. [youtube]6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube]
02.04.07

Washington DC Venture Capital Funds
Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
For a class I was recently asked to put together a list of opportunities for technology startups seeking financing around the Washington DC area. The following list contains light details of some of DC's premier VC firms/funds specializing in technology. Also please see the link to the more comprehensive list at the bottom of this entry. Please email me any corrections, additions or comments. PS: I know Microsoft is not DC based, but I liked the photo. Here we go in no particular (~alphabetical) order: Amplifier Fund (Jonathan Aberman): Amplifier Venture Partners, LP is a seed and early stage venture capital fund ...
02.01.07

Black-Boring
Business Models, Campus Chatter
I have never liked Blackboard. The problem with taking a company public is that the added red tape makes shifting direction very difficult. Blackboard is no exception. Widely criticized for its dismal user interface, Blackboard has hinted that it wants to make its software more interactive and user friendly. Yet, according to press releases: ’don’t expect to see this for a couple years’ A couple years?!? Meanwhile, Blackboard in an attempt to "go 2.0’ has added its own social bookmarking feature. Why not integrate with Del.icio.us? Does Blackboard really think that it can reinvent the wheel? How is Del.icio.us not academic enough? Most ...

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