Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24 http://goo.gl/fb/ntNr # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24 http://goo.gl/fb/YBX9 # Great post on the dynamics of the VC/startup ecosystem and bubles RT@freecloud http://bit.ly/872ePB # Only 7% of the message is in the words http://goo.gl/fb/lmQb # @setonrog @eilieentso – thanks for the book tips! in reply to setonrog # The [...]
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Bill Warner, founder of Avid Technology (NASDAQ: AVID) is a Boston based entrepreneur and I guess angel. He is passionate about building the Boston startup ecosystem back to its old status as a rival to Silicon Valley. To that end he posted the following ‘Company Playbook’ which applies just as well over here. It [...] Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz used her fourth quarter earnings call to say that her ‘”competition is television”. She meant this on two levels – firstly Yahoo’s display advertising business competes with television for advertisers budgets and secondly Yahoo’s video products compete with television for audience – read more on GigaOM. On the audience [...] Hackers has been very much in the news recently (and I mean ‘hacker in the old fashioned bad way….): Google’s decision to pull out of China – (the latest news suggests they will pull search out of China but are in negotiations about retaining other services) The news yesterday that China based online attacks [...] I’ve always believed that success in business comes in large part from your personal style or ‘soft skills’ and I find reading books on the subject a good way to observe and reflect on my own style and effectiveness, and hopefully to improve it. When I find a good book it generally helps [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17 http://goo.gl/fb/mzPO # Where exits go wrong http://goo.gl/fb/KYHr # New York Times plans to adopt a 'first few articles free then you must pay' business model (like the FT) RT tbithewire http://bit.ly/7285c0 # Interesting Adage piece on the extent to which TV viewers are bypassing cable networks – http://bit.ly/8iJSvn [...] The Vancouver Sun recently posted a list of the top ten music earners of the last decade. Aside from being shocked at how few newish stars made the list I was interested to see that nearly all of them made more money from concert ticket sales than album sales. It would be interesting to [...] For those of you that don’t know it, the European Tech Tour Association has been organising two or three day ‘tours’ for as long as I have been in venture capital. These can be either country or sector specific, and the best startups in a country/sector are selected to present to a [...] Many of you will have seen yesterday’s news that Atlas Ventures is, in the words of Techcrunch, ‘upping sticks and moving to Boston’. Atlas has been a mainstay of the European venture scene since it really began in the mid-1990s and we have co-invested with them on a number of occasions. They will be [...] |
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