Category Archives: Technology
Bring Obama’s Tech Targeting to your Startup…
Grassroots Unwired was started 2 years ago by a veteran Democratic political insider named Russ Oster. He was continually amazed to see that the state of the art technology for door-to-door canvassing was simply pencil and paper, with the occasional clip board. That’s when he decided to automate the process and build one of the […]
Re-Imagining the Camera
The iPhone has been a weapon of mass destruction. It’s predecessor, the iPod, revitalized the music industry, and now the iPhone is rolling over wireless. Walled Gardens have been opened, Nokia and RIM have been humbled, and markets not in the direct line of sight are stumbling – none more than digital cameras. The vast […]
Re-Imagining Steve Jobs
The accolades still roll in. Most folk compare him to great inventors, like Edison. My partner Rich makes the case that he is a one-off, an original, not easily compared to an Edison or other vigorous inventors. I rather think that he is a rare breed, perhaps best compared to Walt Disney, a person who re-imagined […]
Condaptive: First Exit of the Bullpen Era!
We are very excited to see that today Condaptive announced its acquisition by Millennial Media. Hemang and his team did an outstanding job and had a tremendous result for such a young company. As Bullpen is but a few months old, it is exciting to be part of an exit so quickly! The full story […]
PopVox Wins South By Southwest Startup Competition
A great company that have been advising since just about its beginning just won the start-up competition at South By Southwest. Here’s a quick summary of the competition http://sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator “The third annual SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark will take place March 14-16 at the 2011 SXSW Festival in Austin Texas” The winning company is called […]
A Night at Android Day Camp
This past weekend I had the pleasure of being a judge at the grand finale to Android DevCamp, held at the eBay/PayPal campus in San Jose. Over 25 teams worked feverishly to produce cool Android apps, many with payments integrated to PayPal. My fellow judges included Thorsten Claus from T-Ventures (part of Telekom, parent of […]
Internet Video Will Drive a Media Overturning
In the big scheme of things, Internet video is a largely yet-to-happen ‘over-the-horizon’ event. Something big is coming, but exactly when and how is not clear. Internet video deals are not hot today. The probable reason: Many of the video deals inspired by the success of YouTube and Hulu have disappointed. Why? The biggest success […]
The New Consumer Teaches the Old Enterprise
The Internet has created today’s ‘new consumer’. Our behavior is certainly distinct from a decade ago. When tweeting and messaging competes with drinking as a cause of auto accidents, a transformation is upon us. Who makes enterprises run? People do, and most of these people are ‘new consumers’, with all of the built […]
New Web Services Leverage Lean Technologies
The past fifteen years have seen a building out of Internet infrastructure stack. Buried in this stack sit what we term the the lean technologies, the crown jewels behind everything we’re seeing now. These are: rapid product integration, open source, and big data, which, taken together have allowed entrepreneurs to deliver robust services offering high […]
Patent strategy for early stage companies
Being a technical person by training I am frequently asked by founders how much they should invest in a patent strategy at the early stages of a company. I personally am a big fan of doing this, not likely for the reason you would expect. Patents will no deter a big company from doing what […]
