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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Jobs Slashed, Pointing to Recession
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Market research, Uncategorized, Venture Capital on April 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Google: What Goes Up…
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, google, Investments, Market research, Strategy, Technology, Web 2.0 on April 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Ad clicks are flat, the stock is falling. Can the enchanted corporate giant keep the magic from fading?
Mobile Video Broadcast
Posted in Community, Intellectual capital, Investments, Java, Mobile, Mobile Phone Usage, Social Networks, Sun Microsystems, Technology, Web 2.0, Wireless, Wireless 2.0 on March 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Recently, Mashable, Techcrunch and others have posted some good articles on mobile broadcast video. A number of companies have recently launched Mobile broadcast services; FlixWagon, Qik and Youtube´s recent addition of direct upload capabilities in the Latest API all supports this trend – mobile broadcast.
Where I am very skeptical to the live mobile-to-web broadcast option, the pre-packaged service to record and upload mobile video directly is neat and useful. The problem of the mobile video and mobile broadcast today is that while it is recorded on mobile, users download the clip to their PC´s and then uploaded to the web – which limits many good clips to reach the masses on the web through its complexity.
These small Java applications are easy to install and easy to use. With the pre-set upload assistance, mobile videos are uploaded directly to the web either as live streams or saved clips. Where geeks and techies where the only ones capable of this before, anyone can now make it happen. I wonder how quickly manufacturers and Telco´s will jump on this and pre-install these applications and affiliations to drive usage and network traffic.
Economic gloom hits the VC world
Posted in BusinessWeek, Economy, Investments, Market research, Venture Capital on March 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »
SCOTT AUSTIN’S THE WEEK IN VENTURE CAPITAL
Economic gloom hits the VC world
Commentary: Crunch may result in crisis for some fledgling companies
By Scott Austin
Interesting article regarding VC portfolio companies and market.
Recession Is Inevitable
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Strategy, Venture Capital on March 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is a very scary and (I am afraid) very accurate analysis from the Wall St. Journal.
“It is a very logical progression. Peloton, Carlyle, Focus — hedge funds and other non-deposit-taking financial institutions (NDFIs) are now being hit by the credit crunch, which had so far been mainly confined to mortgage lenders and the banks.”
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