Archive for April, 2007

In Michigan, BPL moves forward

Om Malik, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:14 PM PT Comments (5)

Nearly 10,000 homes in and around the city of Grand Ledge, west of Michigan’s capital, Lansing will soon be part of a Broadband over Powerline (BPL) pilot project that is being developed by utility.net, a LA-based BPL network services provider.
The broadband service will be offered at three speed tiers - 768 Kbps symmetrical, 1.5 Mbps [...]

Carrier consolidation can be injurious to your wealth

Om Malik, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:00 PM PT Comments (1)

It has been a constant theme of ours - carrier consolidation is going to cause some serious pain for telecom equipment makers. By using their dominant position, they can squeeze the proverbial blood from stone. Tellabs learned this hard lesson and reported a drop in revenues.
You see they were counting on selling some Fiber [...]

I want my MTV (Executive)

Om Malik, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 6:55 PM PT Comments (4)

It is not unusual for us to read about a senior Yahoo executive leaving to either start, or work for a start-up. Some are joining venture firms, like Andrew Braccia who was Yahoo’s vice president of consumer web search, and just joined Accel Partners. Some describe Yahoo as Silicon Valley’s favorite farm team - for [...]

Quote 4/30/07

Carleen Hawn, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:28 AM PT Comments (0)

My start up was featured in a major news magazine. So I show up at a holiday party, magazine in hand and feeling good, only to have cold water splashed on me when I tried to explain social networking to the relatives. ‘But why would anyone want to do that?’ they asked. I couldn’t […]

Moto, dumping some inventory?

Om Malik, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:23 AM PT Comments (3)

Following a rather weak first quarter earnings report and a dismal outlook, some feared that Motorola was going to start dumping excess inventory and into the market, and start aggressive discounting. Apparently that might have started already.

SMS Text News reports that Orange is doing brisk sales on Moto. Why? Free phones with new […]

How do I develop a marketing strategy?

vslog, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:06 AM PT Comments (0)

We are all probably great at technology and product development. But I bet many of us lose our footing when it comes to marketing.

I need some advice on Marketing Do’s and Dont’s.

Could members of the FoundREAD community offer posts dedicated to things like: establishing effective public relations; media relations; online marketing; brand management; viral marketing; […]

Why Hollywood suddenly loves tech?

Om Malik, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (8)

Hollywood, in past few months has become increasingly enthusiastic about new technologies – especially those pertaining to online video. This change of attitude is reflected in gushing statements from movie studio executives about Vudu.

It is not just Vudu – BitTorrent, Guba or add video startup name here – Hollywood studios seem to be happy […]

Dead Man Dancing

matt_trossen, Monday, April 30, 2007 at 4:50 AM PT Comments (0)

The founder’s reprieve between funding rounds never feels long enough. Way too often, you find yourself in a room asking your investors to pull out their checkbooks again. Recently, one of my investors tried to cheer me up: “Listen Matt, you aren’t a real entrepreneur if you haven’t run out of money a few times.”

I […]

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