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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- Platform as a Service
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Saying NO to $1.6 Billion
Saying NO to $1.6 Billion has its consequences. YouTube is being courted heavily. Tons of murmers in the blogosphere and even on WSJ, NYT, etc.. The question that YouTube needs to ask itself is whether it can possibly go at it alone? 50 Million users sharing and watching video – that is the basic business
Investment Thesis: Alessandro Biral
Here’s my interview with Alessandro Biral from Dali Hook Ventures. They actually do seed or very early stage deals. Paul Dali, the Managing Partner of the firm, is the former CEO of Regis McKenna, Inc. I am working on a deal with Paul and Alessandro at the moment, and have good first hand experience of
Investment Thesis: Sumir Chadha
I interviewed Sumir Chadha, as a follow-up to the Investment Thesis series. I met Sumir 7 years back when I was doing Uuma, and Sumir was still at Goldman Sachs. Since then, he moved to Silicon Valley, and started one of the early efforts in venture investing in India, with Westbridge Capital. Westbridge was recently
Investment Thesis: George Zachary
I interviewed George Zachary, as a follow-up to the recurring theme in conversations with entrepreneurs: “VCs are only interested in coming to the rescue of victory”. George happens to be one of the authentic and consummate consumer internet and media investors – someone who did not blow with the wind on the topic of consumer
B:B Exchange: oDesk
Some of you may recall, during the Dotcom days, B:B Exchanges were a hot new concept, which propelled even the car companies to set up one (Onstar.com). Even John Doerr fell for it, and invested in eLance, which was an exchange for Freelancers. Well, like many other concepts that are returning with a web 2.0
Quieres Bailar?
Last night, we saw a beautiful concert by an acclaimed Flamenco dancer, La Tania. This morning, I was telling my mother about the concert. My mother lives in India, I wish I could send her video clips of the pieces that especially struck me. Much as music sharing has become a grand killer app on
Family Connections
Just read about a service called Friends For Families on Techcrunch. It aims at providing matchmaking services for families who want to make new friends with compatible dynamics. In a country like America where a large number of people are immigrants, either from other countries, or from other parts of the US, an individualistic, lonely
As AOL Reinvents Itself
A smart little acquisition occured today. AOL bought an Instant Messaging service that powers, among others, MySpace. Userplane licenses its technology to more than 100,000 sites. I really like plays like this that power thousands of web sites. Photobucket is an example of a similar play, that acts as a repository for photos that can
