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BoIC member featured in New York Times

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business models, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Mobile, Open Garden, Social Networks, Technology, Web 2.0, Wireless 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Tony Fish, a member of Gerbsman Partners Board of Intellectual Partners was featured in NY Times on April 14th. The article, “Getting your business ready for Mobile 2.0”, is an excellent example on Mobile 2.0 issues that arise in with the technology.

“To better understand the coming of Mobile 2.0, indeed it is important to first understand the arrival of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is a new generation of Web-based applications, like widgets, social networks, and collaboration tools that are quickly transforming the landscape of the Internet itself.”

Read the whole article here.

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It’s official: Venture investment declined in Q1

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 , , , 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.

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U.S. housing collapse spreads overseas

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, tagged , , , 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.”

Click here to read more.

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Coming soon: superfast internet

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.

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Monetizing on social networks

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Technology, Web 2.0, Wireless, tagged , , , , , , 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.

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