Content The Believers The Non-Believers Heard in Silicon Valley Startup of the Week Tweet of the Week Editorial This week sees the parting of the ocean, perhaps somewhat appropriate for the Passover weekend. On the one side the believers, believing in startups, Bitcoin as an energy store and an investment-grade asset, Remote digital events, Medium as a platform, NFTs, and yes, Microsoft, believing in the blockchain as a trustless identity platform. Trustless is good by the way, It means we can trust without needing proof. The believers’ number in their ranks Geoff Ralston of Y Combinator, Nick Grossman of Union
[read more]...Data See below for a ranked leaderboard of US Micro VC’s. See below for a ranked leaderboard of US Micro VC’s. You can organize it by City, or just see the ranked list. I began working on this idea as far back as 2014. It is based on 10 years of funding data through August 2020 (probably incomplete) and only looks at funding into companies that reached a valuation of $500m or more. The complete data set includes ranking for all funds globally, no matter the size. But this table is cross references with Samir Kaji’s list of Micro VCs
[read more]...Startup Story Telling Andrew Keen has a new startup in development – now.tv. This video is our first attempt to leverage the approach explained in “Story Telling For Startups” to help him tell the story of now.tv. now.tv – the first attempt Andrew Keen has a new startup in development – now.tv. This video is our first attempt to leverage the approach explained in “Story Telling For Startups” to help him tell the story of now.tv. Over the coming weeks we will do further attempts to show how it improves over time. [embedded content]
[read more]...Got Quoted in the Wall Street Journal. That doesn’t happen every day! 🙂 Here it is: “The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.” — Keith Teare, general partner, Archimedes Labs
[read more]...One of my hobbies is photography. I have a Canon 5D Mk II. It makes great pictures and also awesome videos. Check out http://planet5d.com for examples. Now the world of video is beginning to respond to the arrival of DSLR cameras that can do great video. There are three recent entrants into the space. They all significantly reduce the price point of awesome video. In order of release they are: 1. The Panasonic AG-AF100 2. The Sony PMW-F3 3. The Sony NEX FS-100 Here are samples of each: [vimeo 21556060 w=400 h=225] AG-AF100 test – Poi girl in Union Square,
[read more]...fotonauts released a new build of the Mac beta today and it got me to playing with it again. It can now access Facebook files and also file system based images. It already had iPhoto, Aperture, Picasa and Flickr. So, here is a memory jogger. this is an album of RealNames related people and events between 1998 and 2002. Wow! Mike looks young. And so does Jean-Marie. As for me. I look pretty much the same :-(. But what great memories. And now shared… 🙂 http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/1a2ac3f5-8bc4-4ea5-9a64-3185733c6911/widget/width/425 Notable faces: Gené McPherson, Jim Strawbridge, Rob Reid, Griffin Golamco, Barbara Gore, Nicolas Popp,
[read more]...As the man says – “Unbelieveable”! Marvel lawyers have sent a cease and desist to TechCrunch on the plans to show Iron Man for $1 a seat – tomorrow in San Francisco.  What – gives? Play the video and see. You can leave video comments here (click on the Seesmic link in the comments) http://seesmic.com/Standalone.swf?video=0sTk3eOUjP
[read more]...I’m a big fan of Dave McClure’s approach to product marketing. Today he gave a talk and led a discussion at Web 2.0 Expo. His slides are below. Andrew Chen has a good follow up http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=startupmetrics101aarrrpdf-1208898881815937-9 | View | Upload your own
[read more]...I just looked at my WordPress dashboard and noticed that Marc Canter had linked to me. Curious, I clicked to see what Marc (who is always interesting) had been up to. Wow! What a nice surprise. Not only did he describe me as one of the: Major players and people to watch and listen to: which is always great for the ego :-). But he has written an awesome series of posts about the emerging trends in data, architecture, and users. Here is the post I read first, but it is part of a series entitled “How to build the
[read more]...I just got this email from Slideshare: It is based on a post I did yesterday to earningscast.com You can check it out here: Slideshare Here’s the homepage.
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