John Furrier
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Entrepreneurship: Understanding Angel Investors With Ron Conway and Mike Maples Jr
I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 12 years and interfaced with many angels from both the east and west coast. One thing that I would share with other entrepreneurs is “understand the angel’s mindset”. If you do you’ll have a better chance to being successful. Here is a great interview at Stanford Entrepreneurial Corner with ...
Google Enterprise VAR Strategy
At the Google Enterprise press briefing this past week, I asked Dave Girouard, Google’s lead executive for Google Enterprise, what is their strategy with VARs. Google Enterprise is establishing themselves as a viable player in the enterprise space with Google Apps. They have over 500k businesses using Google Apps. The key next priority is getting ...
Future of Journalism – Death of Newspaper – Take A Tour of NY Times
Comedy Central ran a skit of “The Death of Newspapers – Yesterdays News”. It was funny but accurate. If you’re a journalism major or a young journalist life is not good. The future of journalism will be virtual. As an example SiliconAngle has 3 editors and 41 contributors all virtual. Although we are only a ...
Lessons For Entrepreneurs From Serial Entrepreneur Randy Adams
Here is a great video with my friend Randy Adams. Randy is a successful serial entrepreneur living here in Silicon Valley and is currently the CEO of Searchme.com – a visual search engine. The best advice for entrepreneurs from Randy – Just get out and start doing it. He says ‘Rush forward blindly. You just ...
Facebook Credibility At Risk Again – Facebook’s URLGate
Facebook is growing like crazy and people continue to debate the value of the platform. I am an active user of Facebook, and I like the utility of connecting and collaborating with family, friends, peers, and colleagues. It’s no secret that the site is getting a bit messy – content redesigns and really bad ads ...
Microsoft’s Bing Ad – Damn Good – Bing Is A Serious Threat To Google’s Market Share
The Microsoft Bing ad campaign has started, and I love the ad’s creative and focus. In the early days of the web clutter was the biggest problem that Yahoo solved followed a few years later by Google. Now in 2009 with online usage soaring to new levels with new user experiences, we have the same ...
Google Enterprise: The Enterprise Cloud
Dave Girouard is giving the overview of the Google press briefing for their business. The enterprise group has officially been formed since 2004 now with over 500k businesses deployed with their solutions. As Google celebrates its’ 10th birthday the trend for enterprise outsourcing is gaining serious ground. Congrats to Dave Girouard who is doing a ...
New $99 iPhone from Apple – The iPhone 3G S
At WWDC, World Wide Apple Developer Conference, Apple has announced a new iPhone– The iPhone 3G S. The IPhone 3G S, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, is packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance—up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G—with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy ...
Rajeev Motwani, Friend to All Pursuers of Life, Dies Suddenly – Disturbance Felt All Around The Entrepreneur Scene
For all "Jedi" computer scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalist, there was a deep disturbance in the "entrepreneurship force" yesterday. Rajeev Motwani, computer science professor at Stanford best know publicly for being part of the founding of Google, died tragically yesterday in his home. Public image aside, Rajeev is best known around Silicon Valley as an ...
Developers, Executives, and Investors – If You Missed Google I/O Then Read This
If you missed Google I/O or only followed some of it online, check out this message that I received from Google today. If you missed any of the sessions or want to share them, check out http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html as the session videos and presentations from I/O will go live starting today. Also, check out live video ...
