It’s Nearly 2010: Where’s Cableco IPTV?
I have moved, on average, about once every 8 months over the course of my adult life. Up until about August of 2007, I had somehow managed to weasel out of ever paying for…
Open Innovators Outperform the Market by 16.9%
At the Open Innovation Summit last week in Orlando, there were a number of companies there discussing their various initiatives for open innovation. What is open innovation? UC Berkeley professor Henry Chesbrough, perhaps the…
LeWeb09 Advice: How To Re-Introduce Yourself
By Mark Suster
Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences. If you haven’t read it, I’ll give you the summary version: When approaching somebody at a…
Payvment: Turns On eCommerce on Facebook
Facebook e-commerce could be getting a lot easier for everyone with a new offering from Payvment that provides a shopping cart service that can be networked between participating retailers. The beta application introduced at…
8 Tips for Evaluating Alternatives to Outside Funding
Many entrepreneurs planning their first software startup get stuck on funding and ownership issues. Here are some simple rules of thumb that may help you reframe an issue: Revenue, especially break even revenue, is…
Johnathan Crowley on Viral Content and Online Video
By socialnerdia
Jonathan Crowley is the co-founder of Black20, a multi-platform digital studio that operates out of Long Island City, Queens. There’s a good chance that you’ve seen or at least heard of one of their…
Predictions 2010: Daisy Whitney’s List
What’s the next big thing in new media? To answer that question, I turned to Bill Tancer, author of of Click and the research guru at online audience measurement firm Hitwise. He shared some…
Cleantech is the Trendy Bandwagon, but it has Its Limits
By Jeff Nolan
I just watched a segment on one of the financial channels featuring venture capital investment in cleantech. I have mixed feelings on this, which is to say that I see this as a…
Facebook Needs Better Customer Service
Will Facebook and other social networks eventually need to create a larger focus on their customer service and related tactics? Social media has offered a certain air of democracy for individual end users, providing…
Google Tried Last Minute to Steal LaLa from Apple – Now It’s Real Time Innovation – Relevance and Mobile
By John Furrier
While everyone is Twitter crazy they are missing a big battle between Google and Apple. Google throwing the kitchen sink at Apple in the fight to gain leadership in all things web and all…