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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. AppDynamics.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Zorik Gordon built & IPO’s ReachLocal. And of course you have Hollywood.