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iFund – 85% consumer applications

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Here is a quote from Matt Murphy KPCB in regards to their iFund and what focus it has.

“Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers: We are seeing at the iFund 15 percent enterprise, 85 percent consumer, with even distribution between social networking, games, communication and stuff like that. Right now they’re simple, lightweight, fun, easy to use — given that we’re only three months into this and six months since we launched the SDK, pretty good. Not bad revenue streams either. I’m most excited going forward about the next wave of more sophisticated applications.”

Read more at GigaOm here

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Apple’s App Store Is a Winner

Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , on September 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Here is a excellent article from BusinessWeek about Appstore from Apple.

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I was once an App Store skeptic. When Apple (AAPL) said it would use the iTunes online store to host a range of applications from third-party developers for its iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices, I doubted that this newcomer to wireless would get things right in the first go. Surely major cellular carriers would block outsiders’ data-hogging features. And would Apple really let indie coders tinker with its vaunted iPhone?

As I write this, I’m eating crow. After trying out Apple’s App Store for the past few weeks, I can say categorically that Apple has hit another home run. The App Store has truly unshackled the high-end cell phone.”

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