Blogging: Time versus Money

Chris Anderson in The Long Tail writes a good analysis on the amount of time we’re all putting in to Blog, and not paying attention to the ad dollars : DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB. He quotes : An interesting tidbit from Guy Kawasaki’s wrap-up of his first full year blogging. Note that his blog

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Online Focus Groups

Robert Young writes a very pertinent piece: For Social Networks, 2007 is all about MONEY. College Kids & Teenagers, two very important demographics within the social networking phenomenon, could, however, be effectively monetized and advertising dollars from Coke, Pepsi, Nike, GAP, Adidas, Bebe, Cover Girl, etc. can easily be harnessed by acknowledging the fact that

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Talent Management & Personal Branding

James Governor emailed me this link to a very interesting piece on how talent management is evolving in the corporate world, as Talent discovers how to leverage Personal Branding via online visibility, and corporations discover how to locate Talented people by scouting the Internet. Yes, this will have long term consequences, as a direct channel

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Triumph of the Nerds

The theme has been played with so many different storylines over the last thirty some years. And now, yet again, the web’s developments are rewriting another new script along these lines. On the Internet, if you are trying to launch a new product, service or site, and if the Geeks have appetite for your offering,

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More 2006 Trends and Summaries

I always find it useful to take a look at data and synthesize trends from them. So here are a few pointers to good data sources: IPO Home does a good overview article on 2006 IPOs. After a couple of years of a lack of interest in technology, WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technologies topped the

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Timeless!

It has always irritated me endlessly, the quintessential Indian lack of respect for time. Here’s Satish Dey‘s piece: Let’s Have More Watches To Make Up Lost Time Modern life demands that man should be strapped to a time-machine. Can you imagine managing your life without a watch? I remember the tension and inconveniences experienced on

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Should Google Power Yahoo Again?

Here’s a superb post from Rich Skrenta on Google, the third wave of computing, and how Yahoo should go back to its original model of licensing Google’s technology for Search, Adwords and AdSense. Whether or not you agree with that last conclusion, you must read the post. And then, ponder the question on the future

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Investment Thesis: Paul Asel (IFC)

Below is an interview with a long time friend, Paul Asel, who now works for the IFC’s venture investment arm. I worked with him a fair bit when he was at Telos. Paul’s Background Paul Asel is a Principal Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank,

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