February 2006 Archives

  • Web Services and Devices

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    We are witnessing massive innovation in and around web services. It seems that rarely a day goes by without some new web service being launched. And the same is true with devices of all sorts. We have Microsoft’s Origami device...

  • Advisory Capital

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    Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a...

  • Research and Development

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    Is it just us, or is there really a sea change in the nature of research and development. For my entire career in information technology, research was all about cracking very hard technical problems. How to move more bits from...

  • Why We Invested in FeedBurner

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    Last October, I wrote a post called “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much” in which I told the following story: Once upon a time, we had a very early stage company in our sights. We met the Company shortly after...

  • Feedburner

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    Union Square Ventures closed an investment in Feedburner today. We are thrilled to be an investor in this great company which has been leading the way in RSS feed management and monetization services for the past three years. We have...

  • Mathematics - How much is enough

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    I did not study a lot of science in high school so this reference to mathematics is likely to be my last effort to come up with a model from high school science that sheds light on the evolution of...

  • Web 2.0 is an Oxymoron

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    I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting. It was a fun panel, featuring Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball (now part of Google), Josh Schachter...