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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I registered it in my mind at the time, “hmm, a screen cast while you’re on Skype, that’s pretty clever.&# CloudShare as a product also sounded like a great idea to me.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. But I wouldn’t delay too long or unnecessarily. .”

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. The power of large screen real estate. BUT … try doing proper restaurant research on a mobile device. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. The power of a keyboard. They do both well.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Both Sides of the Table

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. Or ask Tasha to send you a screen shot of my weekly calendar. Research & Development. “But WAIT !!! How the hell can you tell us you don’t have time for email?”

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Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?

Xconomy

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? Writing Code. It’s pretty common for us to get requests from movie-makers about showing our graphics or posters or books in movies.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. ’ OP: Of course we had to do a lot of research to figure out if this was a viable solution. Skip classes.

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