Archive | June, 2004

The A-Player Domino Effect

Jun 24, 2004
in Entrepreneurship

Like any active, early stage venture investor, I have spent a fair amount of time helping my portfolio companies build a management team. And like any venture investor, I wish I could boil hiring down to a more scientific method to make sure that each person we bring on to a company is better than [...]

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A personal server for everyone (continued)

Jun 13, 2004
in Digital Media

Jeff Jarvis has an updated post on a “place for my stuff” furthering the “stuff as a service” paradigm. On my thought about having a personal server in the home, Jeff goes on to say: I still don’t agree because: (1) Consumers won’t understand why they should make a capital investment and it will be [...]

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A personal server for everyone

Jun 12, 2004
in Digital Media

Jeff Jarvis writes about having a place for all of his digital stuff. He goes on to say: : I want a place on the Internet where I can store all my stuff so I can get to it from anywhere on any device to consume, modify, store, or share. This stuff could be anything [...]

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Moving towards an on-demand world

Jun 8, 2004
in On Demand

I have always been a big believer of the hosted software or ASP (application service provider) model since we made our first investment in LivePerson in January 1999. One of our main competitors of that era was Kana, which at that time, did way better than LivePerson in terms of customers, revenue, and market capitalization. [...]

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Web-based businesses circa 2004

Jun 2, 2004
in Entrepreneurship

I met with Dave Panos and Andrew Busey of Pluck yesterday to learn more about their product and their company. Rather than go into the software (which I really like btw, combination RSS reader, bookmark manager, and simple collaboration tool), I wanted to share some of our thoughts about consumer-based web businesses circa 2004. We [...]

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