Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business models, Distressed IP, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Moneytree, MoneyTree report, National Venture Capital Association, NVCA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC, Strategy, Venture Capital, Venturebeat, tagged MoneyTree report, National Venture Capital Association, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Venturebeat on April 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“Venture investment fell 8.5 percent during the first three months of 2008 compared to the final quarter of 2007, according to the new MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.”
To read more on the MoneyTree report, go to VentureBeat´s excellent article here.
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, tagged Economy, falling interest, housing markets, loan crisis on April 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The expected burst of the housing market is here. In US this have now long been a truth to adjust too. Lately, the rest of the world is catching the same funk.
International Herald Tribune recently wrote; “In Ireland, Spain, Britain and elsewhere, housing markets that soared over the past decade are falling back to earth. Experts predict that some countries, like Ireland, will face an even more wrenching adjustment than the United States, with the possibility that the downturn could turn into wholesale collapse.”
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Technology, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, Web 2.0 on April 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Internet as we know it is about to get outperformed by a new, exclusive network know as the Grid. As with the Internet, GRID is a spinnoff out of CERN where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. The network, in effect a parallel internet, is built using fiber optic cables that run from CERN to 11 centers in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world. Read more here.
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Technology, Web 2.0, Wireless, tagged Hook Mobile, MMS, mobile revenues, monetizing on mobile, multimedia, new mobile technology, Social Networks on April 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is a good example on how Wireless 2.0 is enabling Web 2.0 services to generate cash. Paul Ruppert describes Hook Mobile’s services best when saying “… generates additional revenues for social networks and their application developers by offering an open API that delivers a “low calorie” multimedia experience using MMS.”
His prediction in the end of the article may not be so far off when he states that Hook may be on Facebook very soon.
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Market research, Uncategorized, Venture Capital on April 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Biggest Job Loss in 5 Years Sets Off Recession Alarms; Nearly Quarter-Million Gone in 3 Months. Read this Yahoo article.
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