Amazon’s Kindle

November 21, 2007

You’ve probably heard by now about Amazon’s new e-book reader the Kindle. While it’s not very aesthetically pleasing it does come with some great features. The free EVDO wireless connection is by far the best feature and sets the tone for other devices in the space. Some interesting tidbits include: E Ink display technology (600×800 [...]

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Amazon Web Services

November 9, 2007

This week I attended a meetup in Philadelphia that featured Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Services. Jeff talked about his personal experience and some exciting things that people are building using S3 and EC2. Most of us have heard of S3, Amazon’s scalable storage infrastructure. Pricing is $0.15 per gigabyte/month. Growth has been tremendous with [...]

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Ad-Supported Enterprise Software

October 19, 2007

Why isn’t B2B or Enterprise Software free and ad-supported? Historially, there has been a number of reasons. First, the number of end users is likely to be smaller within the enterprise. Second, enterprise software is much more costly. You need to build the product, hire sales people and support the product. We’ll explore this further [...]

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Open LinkedIn – It’s coming … sort of

October 12, 2007

The NYT reported today that LinkedIn does indeed plan to open up its API – sort of. Any companies looking to build applications will have to get approved by LinkedIn first. Also, they are focusing on business applications with obviously some kind of revenue sharing. Nevertheless, this is great news and will help increase adoption [...]

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E-signature Software

August 1, 2007

This is an introductory post on electronic signature or e-signature software. I’d like to preface this post by saying that I have not spoken to many entrepreneurs in this space, and would be happy to include comments/interviews for a follow-up post concerning business models, market challenges, industry-specific solutions and a detailed technology review.

Let’s start [...]

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Ron Conway Interview

July 22, 2007

Jason Calacanis has a great interview with the legendary angel investor Ron Conway. Ron was an early investor in Google, PayPal and Ask Jeeves. Some recent investments include Digg, Zooomr, BuzzLogic, Perenety, PBWiki, Rupture and Vizu. Since 2005, Ron has backed over 100 companies. In the interview, Ron discusses how an [...]

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Google to Microsoft – We want corporate email!

July 12, 2007

Google announced a few days ago that they acquired Postini for $625 million in cash. Positini offers communications security as a hosted service (e.g. email, instant messaging). They have over ten million users across 35,000 businesses and block over a billion spam messages per day.
Postini was a likely 2007 IPO candidate so the [...]

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Happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2007

Happy 4th of July to all! Today we celebrate our independence and should reflect on what has made this country great.

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Thoughts on Virtual Goods

July 4, 2007

There was a conference a few weeks ago at Stanford that caught my eye. The topic was virtual goods and emerging economies around them. From fireworks on Facebook to flowers on HotOrNot to real estate in SecondLife, virtual goods are becoming a mainstay in games and social networks. Their growth over the [...]

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iPhone Bonanza

June 29, 2007

I was on my way home today when I decided to stop by Subway for a sandwich. I noticed there was a line about 2-3 city blocks long in front of the AT&T store. We all know there has been a ton of iPhone hype, but even out here in suburbia? [...]

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