Tag Archives: startup
Tech start-ups in Melbourne?
G’day. In early November I am heading to Melbourne, Australia for week to work with a start-up there I am advising. If anyone knows of other interesting start-ups I should check out while down-under please let me know in the … Continue reading
Technology to make bad parents even worse.
I’m not at the TechCrunch50 conference going on this week here in San Francisco but have kept abreast of the companies pitching their business via the TC site and others. Two companies launched yesterday that made me wince; Story Something … Continue reading
Prescriptive social software & WOM
Alice Marwick’s piece on the emergence of prescriptive social software solutions – Brightkite, Loopt, Foursquare, Whrrl, etc. – made me think about how all these products are about mimicking ‘real life’. Take Foursquare – in a nutshell all it really … Continue reading
Do you trust Yelp?
Yelp has been taking some heat recently over the claim that businesses that advertise on Yelp get elevated in the search rankings. Couple that with the increasing calls for assurances that reviews are truly independent and uncensored and you have … Continue reading
Moving on and up!
Following a couple of months as an Adviser I’m really excited to announce that I have accepted the role of VP Business Operations at Zuberance. Zuberance was founded by Rob Fuggetta who has a long and illustrious career in marketing … Continue reading
Weathering the meltdown – advise from the experts
I’ve just attended the VentureBeat mini-conference/roundtable at which there were two panels; the first comprising highly experienced venture investors/angels; John Doerr, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, Matt Cohler, Kittu Kolluri; and the second experienced entrepreneurs; Max Levchin, Nirav Tolia, Jason Calacanis, … Continue reading
Carpe Diem!
Everything I read online, everything I watch on TV, every radio program I listen to, every person I talk to, talks about the economic crisis. None of us are immune or exempt from it. As for you guys in the … Continue reading
Sage advise on weathering the downturn
Sage advice from Fred Wilson over at Union Sq Ventures: My partner Albert calculated early last year that it takes about 1/10th the hardware, software, bandwidth, storage, and other expenses to build a web service compared to what it took … Continue reading
Start-up Advise: Weathering an economic downturn
Doom and gloom prevails in the media – corporate bailouts, bankruptcies, foreclosures, credit squeezes and rising unemployment dominate the headlines. So what is the prudent start-up CEO to do – stick to the plan you developed last year, raise more … Continue reading
Prediction markets start to go mainstream
Prediction markets are starting to become more and more mainstream as a way to”reconcile contradictory signals..” according to the FT column The Short View: The elections seem to be all about the economy. Mr McCain’s Intrade chances of winning bottomed … Continue reading
