Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged apple, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business week, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, iphone, Kleiner perkins, pelago, Robert Tillman, Strategy, Technology, Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Apple won’t crank up the hype machine about all the new things an iPhone can do until its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, but here’s a small taste of what’s in store: finding things to do in the neighborhood when you’re at a loss.
That’s the idea behind Pelago, the first company funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as part of the $100 million iFund the venture capital firm announced in March at Apple’s last big iPhone event.
Read more here
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Investments, Market research, tagged Asia Times, asia times online, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Economy, food crisis, food prices, gepolitical catastrophe, grain prices, monetary crisis, rice, Robert Tillman, weak dollar on May 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The global food crisis is a monetary phenomenon, an unintended consequence of America’s attempt to inflate its way out of a market failure. There are long-term reasons for food prices to rise, but the unprecedented spike in grain prices during the past year stems from the weakness of the American dollar. Washington’s economic misery now threatens to become a geopolitical catastrophe.
Read the complete Asia Times article here
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.”
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