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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 6)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 6th 2007

Om stayed with Forbes for several years, helping it become an established online venue. He then left to join a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley amidst the madness of the late Dotcom era. SM: At Forbes, for the first time you were working in an American professional environment, right? OM: Yes. This was more

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News Corp’s Vertical Posturing

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 5th 2007

News Corp has just acquired Photobucket in a strategic move to monetize its MySpace asset. My prior writings leading up to this acquisition are below: * News Corp : Bewildered Pioneer * Monetize the MySpace Parasites * Web 3.0 and Photobucket * Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing : Overview * Web 3.0 & Photosharing :

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Story of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Raj Vaswani (Part 13)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 5th 2007

Here Raj discusses making the jump from Foundation Capital to becoming a member of Silver Spring Networks. He concludes the interview by providing advice and insight of the EIR adventure to other entrepreneurs who may be considering such a move themselves. SM: So how did you go from EIR to a member of the SSN

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 5)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 5th 2007

One of the seminal moments in Om’s evolution has been his stint at Forbes.com, which at the time, intersected with the infancy era of online media. SM: How did you get involved with Forbes? OM: Forbes had a piece on ARPANET which had a really profound impact on me. From there I kept building. Forbes

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Palm Gets Rubinstein

Posted on Monday, Jun 4th 2007

Elevation Partners is buying 25% of Palm for $325 Million, and John Rubinstein, the now famous Apple executive who brought the iPod to life, and ran Apple’s iPod division until recently, will join as Executive Chairman. The deal also brings Elevation founders Roger McNamee and Fred Anderson (former CFO of Apple) onto the Board of

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Retrevo’s Vertical Search: Before and After

Posted on Monday, Jun 4th 2007

According to Vipin Jain, CEO, Retrevo “is a web service that helps consumers with shopping and support of tech products. Retrevo is your trusted advisor throughout the lifecycle ownership of tech products, from education, research, deals, price comparison, getting the best out of the products you bought, accessorizing, using, fixing issues to servicing your products.

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Palm’s Fate

Posted on Monday, Jun 4th 2007

With the mobile world awaiting the arrival of the iPhone, which I believe is positioned as a laptop replacement convergence device, Palm has just released its own laptop replacement product. Key points of the Foleo: [With my comments] * Positioning : ProSumer Mobile Companion, that works with a smartphone and keeps it synched. [Not a

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, Jun 4th 2007

Om is largely a self-taught guy, with little formal journalism school style training. But he has great instincts as a reporter, which he has always used to his advantage. What you read below is a remarkable story of having, simply put, “fire in the belly”. SM: How did you manage to pull off the transition

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