Archive for February, 2006

House Ad: Looking for Someone to Help Researching Young Internet Companies

February 28th, 2006

As you may know, I am with a venture capital firm called BV Capital. Right now, I am looking for someone to work with me on a part time (hourly) basis to help research young Internet companies.
BV Capital invests in young Internet and software companies. Really, if you look at some of our recent […]

MashupCamp - Too Bad I Missed it

February 27th, 2006

I had coffee with Dave Nielsen of StrikeIron over the weekend. He gave me the download on MashupCamp which unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to attend.

For those of you who don’t know what to do with the term, mash-ups are a way of combining data available from one or several sources on the web […]

Google your way in…

February 18th, 2006

While I didn’t make it to the RSA Conference this year, I met with a few people who came to San Jose to attend. Had I been there, I am sure that the presentation on security holes exposed by Google would have been my favorite. Read the article here and be amazed what Google helps […]

Some fun sites on the web…

February 16th, 2006

From time to time, you find these little sites that are fun to play with on the web. Recently, there is more and more of them popping up. If you have time to surf around, here are a few ones I have enjoyed playing with in the past few days:

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CodeCon 2006

February 13th, 2006

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DEMO is over, back in San Francisco

February 10th, 2006

I got back from DEMO yesterday. Impression overkill - I’ll need some time to digest all I have seen.

There is a ton of blogs on DEMO and they have done a much better job than I can in describing what’s hot or not, so here are just a few impressions from the sixty-odd presentations I […]

Opening Session at Demo

February 7th, 2006

This morning the first bunch of companies presented at Demo, there is a good run-down at the Conferenza blog.

The conference has a format that provides both on stage demonstrations (6 minutes each) as well as an exhibition hall where each company has an exhibition table. Walking around the hall you can check out all sixty-odd […]

Demo 06

February 7th, 2006

I just arrived in Phoenix for the DEMO conference. I hope I’ll have some time to report from this conference that is both a well-regarded place to launch your start-up as well as one of the high-hype-level events that are so popular…for the odd case that one of my readers is attending and wants to […]