"It's the Software, Stupid" Musings, rants and thoughts of an angel investor and early stage venture consultant about Web 2.0, Search, Social Media, Communities, Venture Capital, etc.
Very slow posting week ahead, at least until Gnomedex, but I have to congratulate Rafat Ali for his scoring an investment from Alan Patricof and his new firm, Greycroft Partners.
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Read Rafat Ali's turn to get micro-publishing venture funded (Links)
Read Investment of the day: Mashery (Links)
Instant Value to customers - solve a problem or create value with the first use Viral adoption - Pull, not push. Friend Jeff Nolan reminded me that these rules were actually introduced by Ray Lane, a Kleiner Perkins Partner, during his keynote of MR Rangaswami's conference, Software 2006.
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Read Kleiner Perkins investment criterias for software startups: Consumer ? Enterprise ? Both! (Links)
Read Two new investments: Rapleaf and Wikio (Links)
To be honest, I am not too sure that I want to be hooked to my Cingular 8125 much more than I already am, but I might like to check a few feeds every now and then. We need a bit more information as to which platform/device should be using the PPC or the smartphone version.
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Read NewsGator for Windows Mobile: I like it but... (Links)
Read Om Malik on the move as well - blogentrepreneurship is the next stage (Links)
Mike is reflecting on his first year writing TechCrunch, which is just a tremendous example of the power blogs give to individual voices. I looked back in my email archive to see when Mike and I started interacting and found our first email exchange, in which he said:
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Read Happy birthday TechCrunch! (Links)
What I find almost hilarious is that Robert?s move has leaked as a rumor that the tech bloggers have immediately jumped on (?Rumor?,?might?,?may?,?will?,?is going to?,?50%?,?100%?), before Robert and John had actually crafted their announcement :
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Read Scoble is movin' and the blogosphere is shakin' (Links)
Read Get out of your typical conference circuit and have a chance to meet new/different people! (Links)
Kaboodle and eBay will launch on Monday, at eBay Live 2006, a new collectibles web site, powered by Kaboodle. Mike Arrington got a preview of the new site from Kaboodle Manish Chandra and eBay’s GM of Collectibles Laurence Toney, and just blogged about it on TechCrunch.
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Read EBay partners with Kaboodle to launch collectibles bookmarking site (Links)
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