Posted from Feld Thoughts 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
The gang from Lookery is in Boulder tonight and having a publisher meetup from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the TechStars Bunker at 1375 Walnut Street. I've started using Lookery on Feld Thoughts and am starting to collect a different set of analytics about you, oh blog reader. Lookery is a user-targe... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 14 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
One of last year's TechStars companies - Filtrbox - is hiring. They are looking for a Java + LAMP developer and a Flash/Flex/RIA developer. If you fit the bill and are looking for a gig in downtown Boulder with a great early stage company, drop 'em a note at jobs (at) filtrbox.com. (original story)
Posted from A VC 1 day 7 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
Hank Williams points out that the front page of the Angelsoft website is really great. For those that don't know Angelsoft is a free web service that many angel investors use to manage their deal flow. We've looked into using... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 1 day 11 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
Eric Norlin - who runs the Defrag Conference - has a good post up today titled The metaphors we've outgrown. He riffs off of the Google Chrome announcement. At the end of it, he answers "what makes Defrag different." People ask me all of the time what makes Defrag different? I kind o... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 1 day 11 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
I'm speechless. I don't think I even know how to process this anymore. (original story)
Posted from A VC 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
Image via Wikipedia I've been a huge fan of the streaming model vs the file based model for as long as I've been thinking about digital media. I wrote this about streaming vs files in the digital music business last... (original story)
Posted from A VC 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
druce; from twitter and Fred Wilson (at my humble suggestion): @polisigh - the political humorbot - the future of the free world depends on us Druce came up with the idea, a twitter follower picked the name, and whitney turned... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
I have completely fallen in love with my Kindle. I've now read over 50 books on it and have another 50 or so queued up. I've been reading exclusively on my Kindle when I travel (I no longer carry books with me), although I do read from the infinite pile of books in my house when I'm ho... (original story)
Posted from A VC 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
The amazing thing is how people thought there needed to be an antitrust case against Microsoft for something as obviously necessary as integrating an html rendering engine into an operating system. Happily Google came along and showed once again a... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
We've done TechStars for two years now. While I love every company involved, each year I've had a major crush on one particular company. This year it was Foodzie. I liked Rob, Emily, and Nik from the minute I met them at TechStars for a Day. They came up to me and offered me choco... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
I'm on a panel on Tuesday September 9th from 5pm - 8pm titled Early Stage Investing in an Uncertain Economy. It's being sponsored by the Rockies Venture Club and is being held at the Denver Marriott City Center. If you are interested in attending, you can register here. Since the Rockie... (original story)
Posted from Feld Thoughts 3 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
On today, this day of endless blogging / talking (and hopefully downloading) of Google Chrome, I thought I'd go retro and write about my renewed hunt for the 4GL. But first, a little context on how this came about. This summer I spent some time playing around with Google AppEngine to try and ... (original story)
Posted from A VC 3 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
A journalist friend of mine once said about Google "they are a freak of a company, the best advertising business ever built is funding the largest collection of mad scientists ever assembled". I love that description of Google and have... (original story)
Posted from A VC 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
The producers of web 2.0 NYC asked me to answer these three questions for the Web 2.0 NYC blog: 1) What are the biggest differences between the east coast and west coast web communities? The biggest difference is that NYC... (original story)
Posted from A VC 4 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Perspective
"You have to build a service with the user/reader in mind or you won't get any uptake. But if you can't engage the content creator in your service, you'll lose something important" what's most interesting about this thought - which... (original story)