This was posted on 7 October 2016 at TechCrunch Original Here Keith Teare CRUNCH NETWORK CONTRIBUTOR Keith Teare is the co-founder of TechCrunch and today runs Palo Alto incubator Archimedes Labs. The problems associated with the widespread rumors of Twitters “for sale” status and that the management team is divided on whether or not to sell the company were compounded this morning with reports that Google, Disney and Apple will not be bidders. The stock price is down 20% to $19.79 at the time of writing. Who runs Twitter — Board or Management? The impressive Board of Directors seems to have set itself against CEO Jack Dorsey
[read more]...I have had the pleasure of speaking to several gatherings this summer. One at Startup Iceland, one at Bitspiration in Warsaw, Poland and a few others. Here is one of the talks. Startup Iceland
[read more]...TechCrunch writer Josh Constine published a wonderful article and accompanying video about the Facebook Home design process. The reason it is so good is that it really goes to the heart of what a social smartphone needs to be thinking about. Of course this is a problem close to my heart, and just.me as a project is addressing many of the same fundamental issues. The key is to understand that to personalize the smartphone the address book, and the interactions with people in it, are the center of a persons real life. These interactions should also be at the center
[read more]...I wrote a piece for TechCrunch over the weekend. It has been quite well received. http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-future-of-mobile-social-could-spell-the-end-for-social-networks/ Here is the real time feedback from Twitter: Tweets about “http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-future-of-mobile-social-could-spell-the-end-for-social-networks/” !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);
[read more]...This is my talk from the MENA – ICT event in Jordan. The event was great. Almost 1000 attendees from all over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) talking about Information and Communications Technology (ICT). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYJll54slY&w=560&h=315]
[read more]...This poem seem particularly pertinent to the current state of Silicon Valley. Incubators on ones side of the valley. Nothing in the Valley. Growth Capital on the other side. Most startups are dead as soon as they exit their 3 month stint. The exceptions are rare yet notable. WHAT HAPPENED TO VENTURE CAPITAL? The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six
[read more]...I was in Europe last week, at the DLD conference in Munich and then in London. just.me went into beta on 21st January and I was able to do 2 interviews: The Guardian Podcast [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/77827097″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] and An Interview with xube.tv [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnDwDi3LRE0&w=560&h=315] The beta launch coverage has been wonderful…. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/741025just-me-ios-beta/ http://allthingsd.com/20130123/just-me-app-wants-tobe-a-switchboard-operator-for-all-your-messaging-needs/ http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/23/just-me-launches-in-beta-is-this-what-facebook-would-have-looked-like-if-it-were-built-for-mobile/ http://blog.evernote.com/opportunitynotes/2013/01/23/just-me-holds-these-names-to-be-self-evident/ http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/01/25/just-me-iphone-beta-launch/ If you have iOS6 and want to try the beta, DM me on Twitter – @kteare
[read more]...I am in Japan for the first half of this week. I am doing a Keynote at Sunbridge Global Ventures Innovation Weekend, and yesterday briefed the Japanese Tech press about the soon-to-be-launched just.me. We previewed the Japanese version of the IOS app. The response was nothing short of … wow! Here are some screen shots.
[read more]...Archimedes Labs just announced that it has invested in the team at M.dot M.dot is led by Dominik Balogh and Pavel Serbajlo. As the piece on Archimedes web site states: M.dot’s vision is that all businesses can be Mobile accessible and discoverable. The platform allows businesses to create, maintain and promote their mobile presence, all from a smart phone app. In many ways M.dot is similar to the web creation and hosting companies that have served individuals, small and medium businesses and other groups during the web’s growth era from the mid 1990s to today. M.dot’s difference is that it
[read more]...Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article written by Timothy Hay about the practices of Law firms here in Silicon Valley in dealing with start-ups. Archimedes Labs gets a nice mention.
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