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The "free" business model

Feb 25, 2008
in Entrepreneurship, Web/Tech

Chris Anderson does a nice job of summarizing the rise of the "free" business model starting with the Razor/razor blade to the world of the web where he argues that all services eventually get priced at their marginal cost. And as Chris rightly describes, that price is quickly going to zero in a world of [...]

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Top tech M&A advisors for 2007

Feb 8, 2008
in Entrepreneurship, Investing/Markets, Venture Capital

I just got the 451 Group’s summary on the top M&A bankers for 2007.  As with 2006, Goldman Sachs was #1 on the list.  Take a look: Top five overall advisers, 2007                          Adviser Deal value Deal volume 2006 ranking Goldman Sachs $79bn 43 1 Credit [...]

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What a Microsoft Yahoo deal would mean for startups (continued)

Feb 1, 2008
in Entrepreneurship, Web/Tech

What a great move by Microsoft! This has been floating around for awhile and the last time I wrote about it was in May of 2007. Anyway, I thought I bought at the bottom for Yahoo months ago in which case it fell another 25% from there. When I saw the news this morning I [...]

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Greenplum closes on $27million round of financing

Jan 22, 2008
in Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Venture Capital

Congratulations to Bill, Scott and team on our new $27mm round of funding led by Meritech and including Sun Microsystems and SAP Ventures.  You guys have been pushing the envelope since I have known you and delivering some spectacular results to boot.  It is nice to see our team and product get validated with a [...]

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Show me the love and I'll show you the money

Jan 17, 2008
in Entrepreneurship

I got a call before the holidays from a prospective customer that I introduced to one of my portfolio companies.  He said he loved our product, saw it fitting in perfectly into their platform, but that we were not responsive enough to their needs.  I was able to get a second chance for our team [...]

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Google giveth…and Google taketh away…

Jan 16, 2008
in Entrepreneurship

Here is another example of one of my portfolio companies’ mantras: Google giveth and Google taketh away (see my post from April for more on this).  Who knows the real reason why Google shut off Adsense for Incredimail (Nasdaq: MAIL) but look at what happened to the stock in one day—a 40% drop.  I am [...]

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Newsgator – going about enterprise sales the right way

Jan 10, 2008
in Entrepreneurship

I was catching up on my feed reader this morning and noticed my friend Jeff Nolan’s post (also see Brad Feld) on Newsgator and FeedDemon RSS clients now being free.  I know that Jeff joined Newsgator  because of his belief in the enterprise, and I applaud the company’s new strategy.  As I have written before, [...]

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The KISS Method and innovation

Jan 9, 2008
in Entrepreneurship

I had a great conversation wtih a friend of mine yesterday about the latest release of his product. He had mentioned that one of my clips from the Economist (see below) on Evan Williams from Blogger and Twitter fame spurred some lively debate at his company. The key thought from Evan is rather than worry [...]

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Changing leadership is never easy

Jan 1, 2008
in Entrepreneurship

I have been a Ravens fan for quite awhile, and I am glad they finally made this move.  Being an avid sports fan and former DI lacrosse player, I have always tried to take lessons from the sports world into the business world.  This is yet another example that reminds me of working with startups.  [...]

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Don't forget the long term

Dec 12, 2007
in Entrepreneurship

Tis the holiday season and with the end of year comes budget planning for 2008. So that means it is time to get all of your key management members together to start reviewing 2007, what worked well, what did not work out, and to hammer out goals for next year. In the spirit of giving, [...]

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