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| Oct 15, 2014 | 30 Founders Share Why Their Startups Failed | If you're going to fail, do it fast…and write a post-mortem to share some of your learning experiences with fellow entrepreneurs. CB Insights compiled over 100 startups post-mortems that described why their startups failed. Most were writte... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | ‘Big data’ is dead. What’s next? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by technology executive John... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | ‘Big data’ is dead. What’s next? | This is a guest post by technology executive John De Goes
“Big data” is dead. Vendors killed it. Well, industry leaders helped, and the media got the ball rolling, but vendors hold the most responsibility for the painful, lingering death of... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Failure | Given the amount of startup activity we've been witnessing the past couple years in the web space, we are in for a bunch of strikeouts this year. We should not avoid talking about failure. Words like roadkill and deadpool should be avoided ... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers Of 2010 | A lot of venture capitalists and super angels are not only active investors, but also active bloggers. Below is a list of the top 20 VC power bloggers as compiled by Larry Cheng of Volition Capital based on traffic data from Compete. The me... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | Fred Wilson: Troubling Signs In Tech, But no Bubble Yet | NY venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a rather gloomy blog post this morning about the state of the tech industry.
Wilson thinks the mounting competition to fund early stage startups has led to a big decline in how carefully VCs are consi... |
| Jul 30, 2010 | Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur | Sounds like a great conversation yesterday at Y Combinator's AngelConf in Silicon Valley. Anthony Ha of Venturebeat had a couple posts on it that I just read, one on Paul Graham's comments, and another on Ron Conway and Mike Arrington's com... |
| May 14, 2010 | How Ticketfly Emerged from a Corporate Innovation Traffic Jam | Ticketfly, a startup that helps concert promoters leverage social media and sell tickets, announced earlier this week that it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from various firms and angels. Co-founded by Dan Teree and Andrew Dreski... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Silicon Valley, NYC Gain New Seed Funds | The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (aka SVASE) has set up a new seed funding program for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in conjunction with newly established early-stage investment firm Cambridge West Ventures.
On the Eas... |
| Mar 27, 2009 | So What Do We Think Of Geithner's Toxic Asset Plan? | I've spent some time in the past few days looking at Geithner's plan to stimulate the purchase of toxic assets from banks. I've also spent some time reading what my favorite finance bloggers think of it. My friend Roger Ehrenberg is mildly ... |
| Feb 9, 2009 | When Greed Is Good | For those of my generation, Gordon Gekko is the ultimate Wall Street caricature. Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, in which Gordon is the main character, came out in 1987, just as I was getting out of business school and starting my career ... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Tweetdeck confirms $0.5m Angel funding round | UK-based Tweetdeck, probably the best desktop application to date for tracking your Twitter feeds, has completed the funding round hinted at recently. The funding will come it at just under $500,000. As expected, Betaworks is leading the in... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | The valuation Blues - how FAS157 is tortuous | We are going to see a lot more volatility in fund valuations
I'm all for transparency and mark to market. As Roger Ehrenberg has blogged about consistently, investors need to know what the underlying securities are worth inside banks, broke... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | The Valuation Blues (aka How FAS157 Is Tortuous) | I’m all for transparency and mark to market. As Roger Ehrenberg has blogged about consistently, investors need to know what the underlying securities are worth inside banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity ... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Selling Apple and Google Today | I posted quite a bit late last year about the fact that I was actively buying Google, Apple, and Amazon during the market meltdown. From late september until thanksgiving, I bought these stocks four or five times as they dropped their late ... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | StockTwits nails stockpicking on Twitter, raises round | StockTwits, a two month-old site that lets you track messages on micro-blogging service Twitter about public company stock performance, has closed a first round of venture funding. The investors, all individuals, are a wide range of Twitter... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | StockTwits Gets Stocked | My friends Howard and Roger have teamed up once again, this time to fund StockTwits, the stock service built on top of Twitter.
Roger’s got a great post on his blog about it in which he calls stocktwits (and other services like it) "a ... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Is 'freemium' dead? | A look at free vs paid business models
My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me "free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for". He said "freemium is dead". I reminded him... |
| Oct 6, 2008 | Free Vs Paid | My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me "free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for". He said "freemium is dead". I reminded him that freemium is a paid model, but he ... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | To Splurge Or Not To Splurge | I went to bed with the news that McCain wasn’t sure if he would support the splurge. Not that anyone needs my vote on this thing, but I woke up trying to figure out if I am in favor of it. So I’ll read (links) and think outloud and hopefull... |
| Sep 20, 2008 | Shooting The Messenger | Image by Getty Images via Daylife
I’ve been uncomfortable with the "no shorting" rules that the gov’t put in place thursday night. I couldn’t really articulate my discomfort with them, but my buddies Howard and Roger have done it ... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | Three Ways (Times Three) for Entrepreneurs to Blow It | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nobody likes to fail. No entrepreneur or venture capitalist thinks a particular venture is going to be the one to fail. As veteran venture capitalist Bob Crowley at the Massac... |
| Jul 22, 2008 | Postmortems on two failed startups | Remember the past, or you're bound to repeat it
Monitor110 recently shut down after raising $20m over three rounds. One of the co-founders wrote a portmortem of Monitor110, highlighting 7 mistakes that the company made:
1. The lack of a sin... |
| Jul 19, 2008 | Read This Post | My friend Roger Ehrenberg has posted one of the most honest candid post mortems on a failed startup that I have ever seen from the leadership of the company. His company, Monitor 110, tried to use technology to surface investable informatio... |
| Jul 19, 2008 | Success is a terrible teacher | The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup
Failure is part of the maturing process in the startup world. If you haven't failed, you aren't trying hard enough, or you aren't "pushing the envelope" far enough. I have alway... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Buddy Media launches another “social media” ad network, raises $6.5M | Buddy Media is a small player in the game of trying to build businesses on Facebook’s developer platform, and on other social network platforms, but it has big plans.
Today, it is rolling out an ad network of its own — meaning it is competi... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | We Need A New Path To Liquidity | Watching all these machinations between Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, News Corp/MySpace, and their ilk makes me sick. They are playing around with Internet assets like they are toys. And meanwhile the services we have come to rely on like... |
| Mar 15, 2008 | In Times Like These Read The Blogs | I wrote a short post yesterday wondering what was in store for the financial markets in the wake of the Fed and JP Morgan bailing out Bear Stearns. This is what’s been on my mind the past week for the most part. Sure, we’ve been thinking a ... |
| Jul 17, 2007 | Private Equity Firm To Go Public On Private Exchange | Whether it’s shareholder lawsuits, political interference or Sarbanes-Oxley, there are plenty of reasons for companies to want to avoid the public markets these days. Still, public markets represent a good way to both raise money and give a... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | EA Boss Admits: We Have A Problem | Like the movie industry, the videogame industry has become enamored with sequels which are generally seen as safe money makers. But the strategy hasn’t really gone according to plan in either industry, as many highly touted sequels end up a... |
| Jul 5, 2007 | Microsoft's Xbox Hole Just Got $1 Billion Deeper | Microsoft’s Xbox unit has yet to turn a profit, but the company keeps insisting that profitability is just around the corner. That goal may have to wait a little bit longer, as the company has announced that it will take a $1.05-$1.15 Billi... |
| May 7, 2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| Jul 24, 2006 | Transparency, Markets, and the Internet | Pregão da BM&F
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One of the benefits of looking at the Internet from an office in Manhattan versus Sand Hill Road, Route 128, Beijing, or somewhere else is that the Wall Street mentality is pervasive... |
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| StockTwits Closes a $3M Round | Congrats to Soren Macbeth, Howard Lindzon and the StockTwits team on their well deserved new round of capital.
Mike Arrington at Techcrunch broke the story this morning that StockTwits has added $3 Million in capital from our good friends ... |
| Почему VC в 99% случаев говорят «нет» и как заставить их сказать «да» | Кристиан Хернандес успел поработать в таких компаниях, как Facebook, Google и Microsoft, а теперь он яро поддерживает предпринимателей как VC из White Star Capital, работающий со стартапами на ранней стадии. Вот его советы с портала Medium ... |