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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. So now is the time to step up and embrace what is truly the next iteration in gaming.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.