The VentureOne Q1 numbers are out and show that the VC investment is on a path of surpassing last year’s investment. In 2006, $26b was allocated and Q1 of this year is up 8% over last year’s first quarter, totaling $6.9b in comparison to the $6.4b 2006 level. However, this is due to [...]
I recently read the Business 2.0 article “What’s Next: The Top 10 Products, Ideas and Trends.” I love these types of article and, sure enough, was not let down by this one. There were two ideas that really excited me.
First is Powercast, a startup based in Pennsylvania and founded in 2003 that [...]
My friend Jon turned me onto a new little start-up called DoMyStuff.com. This site is right up my alley as I am always looking for little gigs to earn spare cash in my free time.
The concept of the business is to allow everyone, not just high power executives, to reclaim valuable time by outsourcing [...]
Mozy, one of my favorite companies, just closed a multi-million dollar deal with GE!!!!! Way to go Mozy!
Mozy is a Utah start-up based in American Fork and is led by Josh Coates. The company started with a focus in the consumer market, offering unlimited backup for a mere $5 per month (or [...]
Today I was using LinkedIn and saw this icon for the first time. I consider myself a “frequent” user of LinkedIn, so clicked on it and learned it was a symbol of a premium account holder. Odd.. how had I not seen this icon before? Are people not making the jump [...]
It is funny how I now have a handful of posts on people search engines as these have randomly been a result of this blog. I started this blog as a way to track my research resources so that I could later reference it (which surprisingly I do quite often), but listing these [...]
My friend Darren had a post concerning getting all bloggers registered to vote. I couldn’t agree more as it is our responsibility to have our voice be heard, knowing that we CAN make a difference in the way our country is governed.
Darren had the link to GoVote.org (another link I would like to add [...]
Lately I have been researching on specific company employees in order to line up some interviews for a side research project of mine. I blogged about the research resources about a month ago, but wanted to blog specifically about the company Wink.
When I initially blogged I had yet to check out Wink. Since [...]
The Working Group on Director Accountability and Board Effectiveness is a 22 member group of people from VC firms, law firms and resource organizations that periodically write white papers of the structure and effectiveness of VC backed company boards. At the beginning of 2007 they released the white paper “The Basic Responsibilities of VC-Backed [...]
A lot of information about a company can be extracted from news releases, white papers and periodical publications. The most useful sites I have found include:
Proquest - (sometimes listed as Wall Street Journal Historical Newspaper) the “king” of the news is usually availabe through a university and/or library. This database includes a full [...]
