Posted in Entrepreneurship, Startup Resource, VC on August 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Balaji Srinivas, Aureos Capital
I would back a first time entrepreneur. But today my first time entrepreneurs are different: they have substantial experience.They are not figuring out their businesses; they are figuring our whether their company will succeed, because they know their business.
I’m not willing to live with the other option, which is: I don’t know [...]
Posted in Technology on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Google Phone, formerly called GPhone, insanely much awaited Phone will be out soon. The phone will not be available until the next year, as said by people who are engaged in the development of GPhone. The Company said:
The Mountain View, Calif., company has made clear it is serious about developing advanced software and services for [...]
Posted in Open Source, Startup Resource, Technology on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Construct a highly available Apache Web server cluster that spans multiple physical or virtual Linux® servers in 5 easy steps with Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat v2.
To get the most out of this article, you should be familiar with Linux and basic [...]
Posted in Open Source, Technology on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business – desktop software.
A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as ‘Goobuntu’.
Google has confirmed it is working on [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Startup Resource, VC on August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Question: I have heard many times that VCs won’t sign NDAs. When I ask why this is, I’m told that reputable VCs won’t share my ideas with others and/or that my ideas aren’t so special or revolutionary that they would be stolen.
In the real world, VCs talk, they look at many deals, they network, etc. [...]
Posted in Strategy, Technology on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s open season on Microsoft Office. Google is distributing Sun Microsystems StarOffice, a rival productivity software suite, and also has its own web-based productivity suite called Google Docs and Spreadsheets. As part of its iWork suite, Apple has a new spreadsheet called Numbers that could compete with Microsoft’s Excel. There is also OpenOffice, an open [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Startup Resource, Strategy, Technology on August 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Larry Page:
We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
The Star Trek computer doesn’t seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks [...]
Posted in Technology on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will start research and development on technology for a new generation of network that would replace the Internet, eyeing bringing the technology into commercial use in 2020.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will seek 7.8 billion yen in budgetary appropriations [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Startup Resource, Strategy on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Although the Internet bubble has collapsed since 2000, producing “killer apps” remains the objective of many new software ventures. However, no matter how alluring the business idea may seem, without some kind of marketing strategy the venture will likely have a short life or fail before it is started.
Successful firms have a deep [...]
Posted in Advertising, Open Source, Startup Resource, Strategy on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Openads is one of the most interesting open-source projects/companies on the planet. Period. It’s an open-source ad server. Like DoubleClick without the lock-in or fees. In other words, it’s open source–100 percent GPLv2. I guess it should be no surprise that the world’s most popular ad server, powering Web 2.0 business models, is open source, [...]
