If you are a very early stage entrepreneur looking for financing, chances are you need a lot more than help with financing. Most likely, you need help with Positioning, as well as overall strategy. For the moment, I do not have the bandwidth to take these projects on on a pure equity basis. I do
Kosmix is a vertical portal startup. Founded in 2006 by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, founders of Junglee, this site aims at creating a ‘Home page for every topic’. Featured Kosmix sites are RightHealth, RightAutos and RightTrips focusing on health, autos and travel verticals. They have also been working on other verticals like politics, finance,
Lyla Kuriyan is a Director of Product Marketing in the Research & Breakthrough Innovation group at SAP. She works in a team that is developing the strategy to define SAP’s next generation mid-market products. The thoughts that Lyla expresses are her own — not SAP’s.
Readers, I need your help. My now famous Web 3.0 framework needs a better name. Can you help me name this baby in a way that it transcends the versioning of the web?
Daniel Cohen is a Partner at Gemini, specializing in Internet and enterprise software investments. He sits on the Board of Gemini companies eSnips, SupportSpace and Verix (formerly Business Events). In addition Danny manages the Fund’s operation in Silicon Valley and provides portfolio companies with a direct link to the technology and VC activity in California.
In case you have missed them, here are the must-read pieces from this week: * Is Google Scared? * Facebook Woes Coming? * Qualcomm and Nokia Both Show Headroom * The Microsoft-Yahoo! Battle Plan (Forbes) * Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Interview) * Microsoft, Masterful Maneuverings * Cadence Crashes. Now What? * Interdigital:
Dharma is currently Vice President, Strategic Accounts, at July Systems, a provider of integrated solutions for mobile content retailing. Dharma has over 16 years of experience in high technology, having held senior positions in marketing, business development, software development and management consulting with both large corporations as well as start-ups. Through his successful career in
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author “Seventy Five dollars! That cannot be,” was my own reaction when I first glanced at the result of my valuation analysis. The number sounded outrageous compared to the current stock price of IDCC – $20.13 after hour on Jan 30th, 2008. It was also 65% above my highest estimate of