markevanstech.com -Back in the heady days of the dot-com boom, Forrester was among the most notorious when it came to issuing bullish forecasts when it came to e-commerce. It was a great marketing move by because it fed into the frenzy among start-ups, VCs and investors who believed e-commerce was going to destroy their bricks and mortar [...] more »
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paul.kedrosky.com -There are many unsettling things about yesterdayâs brief and unseemly Bloomberg wire appearance, and then disappearance, of an obituary for Appleâs Steve Jobs -- not least of which is that heâs not dead yet -- but I was struck by this parenthetical instruction to reporters. (IF STOCK DROPS): The decline is no surprise to investors and analysts, many of whom considered Jobs irreplaceable. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray & Co. in Minneapolis had said if J more »
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feld.com -Congrats to Josh Hug and the gang at Shelfari for joining the Amazon.com family. I was an early angel investor in Shelfari and have been a long time avid user of the service. Amazon was an investor in the first round and the two companies fit naturally together. I invested in three vertical social networks in 2006 - more »
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darrenherman.com -Great chart from Gartner. Makes you think that if you ran a fund or were an investor, where would you place your bets? more »
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susiemadrak.com -Here’s what astrologers are saying about today’s eclipse, which took place at 2:16 PDT/5:16 EDT: It’s time to move to cash. The “rapid transformation of investor psychology from manic greed to paranoia”? Yikes. Ditto. Oh, and increased storm activity at the end of August. (When I’m on vacation, naturally.) more »
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dondodge.typepad.com -Y Combinator provides seed stage capital and a 10 week startup boot camp for budding entrepreneurs. At the end of the 10 week session Y Combinator invites VCs and angels to an investor day / demo day. Today YC unveiled 20 new startups to about 80 Boston area VCs and... more »
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feld.com -I'm baffled whenever I hear from a CEO that he's having trouble getting a response from one of his VC investors. Unfortunately, this is a very common occurrence in VC-backed company land. After noticing this during the Internet bubble around the turn of the century (doesn't that make it seem like so very long ago), I'm starting to notice this again more frequently. As I pondered this the other day, I tried to discern a pattern, but I just think it's just the way the univer more »
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paul.kedrosky.com -A question that came up this morning in judging for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year competition: Can a great entrepreneur be running an unsexy company? Now, I don't mean unsexy merely in that the company sells thumbtacks or something. I mean it in the broader sense that the entrepreneur's company is currently only an indifferent performer, but the entrepreneur is a star who has built a great team, is loved by investors and employees, is civic-minded, etc. I hav more »
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andrewlafleur.com -I came across an interesting post over at New Condos Online about how American developers should start aggressively pursuing Canadian buyers for their product due to the relatively strong Canadian economy and the (until very recently) high Canadian dollar. This is very timely advice for American developers to consider. Most US Real Estate Markets are still [...] more »
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blog.tomevslin.com -Contrary to popular belief, the ad-supported model for a web business is very, very hard to succeed at. I've underestimated the difficulty of living on ads a couple of times in the my investment career. Wouldn't want you to do the same either as an investor or an entrepreneur. Google, of course, is advertising-supported and is a huge success; that's... more »
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