Archive for November, 2007

‘Dial 1 for Sales’ & other patterns of positive culture

Carleen Hawn, Friday, November 30, 2007 at 2:16 PM PT Comments (11)

 

Veteran VC Ray Rothrock, of Venrock, said something refreshing to me yesterday: “Venture Capital is really all about pattern recognition. We look for patterns it the market, patterns in entrepreneurs, cultural patterns at the startups pitching us.”

Rothrock’s pattern recognition thesis is important for founders. Here’s why: Patterns in the market unearth new business opportunities. […]

‘Dial 1 for Sales’ & other patterns of positive culture

Carleen Hawn, Friday, November 30, 2007 at 2:16 PM PT Comments (0)

 

Veteran VC Ray Rothrock, of Venrock, said something refreshing to me yesterday: “Venture Capital is really all about pattern recognition. We look for patterns it the market, patterns in entrepreneurs, cultural patterns at the startups pitching us.”

Rothrock’s pattern recognition thesis is important for founders. Here’s why: Patterns in the market unearth new business opportunities. […]

2008: The Year of LinkedIn?

Anne Zelenka, Friday, November 30, 2007 at 1:44 PM PT Comments (27)

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to start speculating about what will be hot and what will be not in 2008. After all, 2007 was not the Year of the Widget, despite what Newsweek predicted. If anything, it was the Year of Facebook. But what about that business networking contender, LinkedIn? Could 2008 be the year of business networking?

AOL Video & Amazon Unbox Hook Up

Om Malik, Friday, November 30, 2007 at 1:25 PM PT Comments (0)

AOL Video is going to drop its own for-pay download offerings in favor of Amazon Unbox, according to company officials. AOL will integrate links to Amazon Unbox, while content will be integrated throughout AOL Video and in relevant video search results across the site. The integration of Unbox within AOL Video begins tomorrow and […]

So Google Will Bid For Spectrum. Will It Play To Win?

Om Malik, Friday, November 30, 2007 at 8:07 AM PT Comments (24)

For the past few months, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has hinted at every opportunity that Google (GOOG) will bid for the auction of the 700 MHz spectrum. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they issued a press release today and confirmed that they will bid on the so-called C-block of the 700 MHz […]

Credentials? Nah. Judgment is what counts.

Carleen Hawn, Friday, November 30, 2007 at 12:09 AM PT Comments (0)

For your company’s prospects, Marc Andreessen says “the market matters most“ — more than product, team, and even b-plan.

For your prospects as a leader, a terrific Op-Ed in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal illuminates the reasons why personal judgment trumps every other criterion — even experience.

“Leadership is, at its marrow, the chronicle of judgment calls,” […]

To Save Its Bacon, Facebook Weakens Beacon

Om Malik, Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 11:01 PM PT Comments (18)

Update: Three weeks is a long time on the Internet. It was on Nov. 6 that I raised the question: Is Facebook Beacon a Privacy Nightmare? Three days later, my next post, Facebook’s Cruel Intentions elicited some response from the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which responded and clarified their position. But soon after, the situation […]

The GigaOM Show — Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales

Om Malik, Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 8:51 PM PT Comments (9)

Wow, time does fly. We are on our 19th episode. In this week’s show we chat with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia.
Wales believes simplicity is key to building an intuitive social network website. Which is why sites like Wikipedia and Facebook work so well in the social community. With a recent Wikia-Facebook like […]

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