Archive | April, 2007

From Web 2.0 to Business 2.0 – MySpace pulls Photobucket videos

Apr 11, 2007
in Entrepreneurship, Web/Tech

The alarm bells are ringing in the web world (see the Techmeme discussion) – one of the gorillas in the space is flexing its muscle and protecting its turf as MySpace is preventing Photobucket photos and videos from appearing on its site.  As Om Malik mentions, this happened once before and I am sure the [...]

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Second Life for Kids

Apr 11, 2007
in Web/Tech

As a VC that invests in early stage companies, part of my job is to discover new opportunities and business models.  While much of today’s online and social networking growth is being driven by teens and college students, very rarely do I get the opportunity to learn about interesting companies through the eyes of my [...]

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Why startups need to control their own destiny

Apr 9, 2007
in Entrepreneurship

I was in a board meeting last week, and as we reviewed the results one item quickly jumped off the page – the company did a great job signing up a couple of Tier 1 partners but a less than stellar job driving results.  This was not surprising as what happens more often than not [...]

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