VC

• I am addicted to TechMeme – Today's Viral Buzz concerns VENTURE CAPITAL – is it over?
  Posted by Howard on October 7th, 2006 at 2:07 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  I love TechMeme. It has all the news I want with just enough gossip and bias to make it real. If there is news in [...]

• Business Models – The trend in "Domino rally " plans.
  Posted by Howard on September 23rd, 2006 at 5:02 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  Venture dude Josh Kopelman offers up some insight and strong advice when building and evaulation business models. Here is his big concern: Today, as a [...]

• YouTube stays in the news – we all owe them a debt of gratitude
  Posted by Howard on September 21st, 2006 at 8:49 am, Comments: No comments yet

  The NY Post is live with a YouTube story. Seems like the Company will only consider a $1.5 billion price tag. The blogosphere will be [...]

• Crowds are stupid – I am sick of the "Wisdom of Crowds" ideas and Web 4.48 funding continues unabated.
  Posted by Howard on September 19th, 2006 at 6:24 pm, Comments: 6 comments

  Crowds are stupid! They are loud, sweaty, smelly, will trample you at the drop of a hat and should be followed with extreme caution. Crowds [...]

• Seeking Alpha Partners with Yahoo – Yawn
  Posted by Howard on September 11th, 2006 at 8:59 pm, Comments: 3 comments

  One of the good things about having a venture capitalist behind your idea is the networking relationships and the IN’S with big players like Yahoo [...]

• Lindzon – 5 click weekend mash-up for the Markets….
  Posted by Howard on September 3rd, 2006 at 7:13 am, Comments: 1 comment

  The markets have had a nice little rally the last few months. If strength continues I am looking for large caps and healthcare to continue [...]

• Sony buys Grouper – Not quite Apple buying YouTube, but interesting gauntlet nonetheless…
  Posted by Howard on August 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 am, Comments: 7 comments

  Sony takes a $65 million cash leap into the video sharing space. Cool. I just signed up for an account. Pretty easy process. BUT, a [...]

• Should Apple Buy You Tube? Of Course ! They should have listened to me and already bought RIMM (Blackberry)
  Posted by Howard on August 22nd, 2006 at 10:38 pm, Comments: 7 comments

  Man – I can’t believe that I have not speculated on this before. It makes for such awesome fun to visualize the possibilities. Doing my [...]

• Biltmore Ventures
  Posted by Howard on August 21st, 2006 at 7:21 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  Today we formalized a new VC firm and fund in Phoenix called Biltmore Ventures. We are shooting for a launch date of October 1, 2006. [...]

• The 2.0 trend. Silly but fun. "Not that there's anything wrong with that"
  Posted by Howard on August 21st, 2006 at 12:17 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Peter Rip, a venture Capitalist at Leapfrog Ventures, has a funny post up titled “Everything 2.0.” Thanks to Fraser for replugging my Networking 2.0 piece [...]

• The United States of Distraction!
  Posted by Howard on August 16th, 2006 at 12:10 am, Comments: 1 comment

  There is no way near enough time in the day. 72 hours ago I thought I could conquer the world being home alone. NOT EVEN [...]

• Blogroll Update
  Posted by Howard on August 1st, 2006 at 7:49 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I have added some cool bloggers and links to my blogroll. The goal continues to be to find bloggers and links that help me run [...]

• Phoenix is in the Limelight! AND seven more reasons to set up a Venture shop in the valley of the Sun.
  Posted by Howard on July 26th, 2006 at 8:24 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  I have been reading about Tempe based Limelight Networks for some time and they have gotten big enough to be sued by Akamai . Congrats! [...]

• Financial(market) bloggers UNITE!
  Posted by Howard on July 21st, 2006 at 4:09 am, Comments: 8 comments

  First off – My all carb all the time Toronto diet is a HUGE success. I have gained 10 pounds in 21 days – WITHOUT [...]

• iPod Killers, Patent lawsuits and eyeballs- or why TECHNOLOGY INVESTING IS DEAD MONEY
  Posted by Howard on July 11th, 2006 at 10:48 am, Comments: 5 comments

  Acquire vs. Innovation Litigation over Marketing Build to Sell rather than Build an Empire Eyeballs over Transactions If you are not following these trends, you [...]