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.
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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.
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Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, Market research, tagged Asia Times, assets, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, german banks, Horst Koehler, loan crisis, Robert Tillman, securities, subprime mortgages on May 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The German financial system wanted to consume low-quality American assets, but did not want to look on what it was eating. German banks have written down about US$25 billion in securities derived from low-quality (“subprime”) American mortgages, and doubtless will lose a great deal more.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged balance sheet restructuring, Board Of Intellectual Capital, crisis management, Distressed Intellectual Property, Distressed IP, endoscopic technologies, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, james mchugh, maximizing enterprise value, steven r gerbsman on May 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Steven R. Gerbsman, Principal of Gerbsman Partners and James McHugh, a member of Gerbsman Partners Board of Intellectual Capital, announced today their success in maximizing stakeholder value for a medical device company that focuses on flexible endoscopic technologies that enable surgical procedures through the body’s natural openings.
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Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Market research, Technology, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, tagged advertising, Adwords, Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Business plans, CPMs, Gerbsman Partners, google, Investments, mashable, Monetizing online video, Strategy, Videorix, vlogging, Web 2.0 on May 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Where web 2.0 brought us nice features and video, it have had a hrad time producing business models that enables solid buiness plans. One new company, Videorix emplain themselfs as being a “self-service marketplace connecting advertisers with publishers of online-videos“. Walking the well established path of Goggle AdWords, this may be one way of generating some cash on all those videos that are everywhere on the web.
Here is a good piece Mashable:
“The system is still in very early development, and according to the creator, Nadim Elgarhy, the system is still in development, working out the kinks. As a result, the place isn’t exactly flush with advertisers, yet, but there’s an introductory offer from Nadim to promote the system itself. It’s not a particularly lucrative offer, but it shows what could be possible if the system becomes as well used as the IZEA system as well.
The system seems to pay no regard to CPMs, going with a blanket flat-fee sponsorship model. There doesn’t seem to be any ranking system as of yet, but with a little tweaking (and a lot more advertisers), this particular system could end up being a real decent marketplace for those breaking into the video realm to see a little return on their time investment.
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