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'Apple Poses Absolutely No Threat To Our Market,' Says Swiss Watchmaker
BASEL—Among the 122,000 enormously rich watch fanatics assembled here last week, you’d have been hard-pressed to find any who didn’t think the rumored iWatch is daft and the reported Samsung watch...
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The Worst Possible Cybersecurity Breaches Could Be Far Worse Than You Imagined
The cyber-ruffians who briefly tanked the stock market recently by faking a news tweet about an attack at the White House showed how much damage can be done with a few well-placed keystrokes. Those who...
View ArticleBoulder is for Media
Recently Boulder based Datalogix announced that they had raised $25M to accelerate the build-out of its online ad targeting data business. The Datalogix story is one of perseverance and adaptation and...
View ArticleWelcome Costanoa
While the world may not need more venture capitalists, it definitely needs more good ones. Enter Costanoa Venture Capital– launched today by long time investor and entrepreneur (and friend) Greg...
View ArticleThe Democratization of Entrepreneurship
One of the great trends we’ve been witnessing over the past decade, and in particular the past 5 years, has been what you might call the “democratization” of entrepreneurship”. It’s a powerful trend...
View ArticleShifting from a product company to a sales/marketing company
At the risk of overgeneralizing (although to be fair as a VC that’s pretty much my job description) and understanding that there’s plenty of grey area here, I’ve really been noticing recently just how...
View Article#3010: The Video
I blogged last year about the amazing 40th birthday trip my wife Greeley sent me and 9 friends on – cycling through Slovenia and Italy (original blog post along with a bunch of pictures here). We had a...
View ArticleSome thoughts on your ABBA round
I’ve noticed an ongoing trend over the past year or so that’s worth highlighting and commenting on. As valuations have risen (become “frothy” in VC speak, which is our nice way of saying “too high”)...
View ArticleThe #hash economy
Back in the late 90′s I started noticing URLs at the end of many TV advertisements. They started as general company URLs (and were relatively infrequent) and eventually because almost ubiquitous...
View ArticleMarc Barros on the shift from Product to Marketing/Sales
Marc Barros, the founder of Contour cameras wrote a great follow-up to my post on your company’s shift from a product focus to building out a sales and marketing organization that’s definitely worth...
View ArticleThat new era of Venture Capital is here
A couple of years ago I posted about what I thought would be the “new era of Venture Capital.” Specifically I was predicting that we’d see a strong barbell effect in VC fundraising. From that post:I...
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Facebook Makes Fortune's List Of The 500 Biggest Companies By Revenue
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. once again leads Fortune's list of the 500 biggest U.S. companies by revenue, as the world's biggest retailer succeeded in posting strong growth despite a...
View ArticleThe Web's Community Of Communities
Disqus quietly pushed this out in the past few weeks.The cool thing is this is interactive, meaning you can click on any of those bubbles and get to the blog post and discussion. I've been doing that...
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Intel’s New Mobile Processors Could Save The Company
Quarter after quarter, Intel has been pumping out products consumers don’t want and watching its revenue shrink—making comparisons to ailing smartphone maker Blackberry seem apt.But at the same time,...
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Amazon Accidentally Published Pictures Of A Secret, Not-Yet-Released...
In the fiercely competitive world of smartphones and tablets, new product launches are usually shrouded in such secrecy that many of the company's own employees don't set eyes on the device until it is...
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Apparently, It's Time To Mock The Rich And The Geeky In Silicon Valley Again
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (Reuters) - Silicon Valley is taking itself a tad too seriously, and a few of its shriller residents have taken note.Recent weeks have seen the birth of a few new blogs poking fun...
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Most Data Isn’t 'Big,' And Businesses Are Wasting Money Pretending It Is
Big data! If you don’t have it, you better get yourself some. Your competition has it, after all. Bottom line: If your data is little, your rivals are going to kick sand in your face and steal your...
View ArticleHow Our Tech Startup Succeeded Without the Tech
It was February 2010. We were noticing that a company named Groupon was taking off and a whole new industry was booming along with it.Our idea for Yipit was simple, aggregate all these daily deals...
View ArticleThe Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched
If you’re a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter.Note: This post is loosely based on our experience 2 years ago when TechCrunch covered...
View ArticleThe Other Reason We Were in Stealth Mode
When we quit our jobs to start a new company, the first question we always got: “So, what are you working on?”It’s actually a question I hated getting.It puts you on the spot. You feel like you’re...
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