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Concept Arbitrage: Lonely Planet & TripAdvisor
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Web 3.0 & Comcast (Part 4)
Acquisition Targets Comcast has made a few acquisitions in the Internet space. In April 2007 it acquired movie ticket site Fandango for $200 million. The Company is aggressively eyeing the Social Networking / Web 2.0 space. Perhaps it wants to make up for missing out on MySpace and You Tube. The Company is also looking
Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 10)
SM: What kinds of problems have you identified as big open problems you are going to tackle in the labs? TL: We are always working on making the service faster, scalable and more reliable. We have a team of folks that are looking for the 1 in 10,000 to the 1 in 100,000 “nasty thing”
Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 12)
SM: You may have to do some of that equity/liquidity swapping due to the structure of venture funds. JH: One of our funding sources may have to close out their fund, and in that case we will go find someone to help do that. In fact we just recently had a conversation about this amongst
Concept Arbitrage: Hoovers, D&B, InfoUSA
Okay, so while we’re on the Concept Arbitrage topic, I would also like to suggest that entrepreneurs in India start thinking about the business of “Information”. Imagine. You have a product that needs to be sold to hundreds and thousands of businesses all over India, across various industries. It could be anything from computers, to
Concept Arbitrage: PayCycle & Intuit
I wrote a widely read Concept Arbitrage series sometime back. Here are some additional thoughts on that topic. The focus of the series is on various venture ideas that have been successful in the US, and can be replicated in India. Well, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), applied to financial management disciplines like Payroll, Financial Accounting, Tax Preparation
Facebook: Now Monetize
The blogosphere is excited about Facebook’s $15 Billion valuation. I still don’t buy that valuation, but if I were Zuckerberg, I would take the opportunity presented by the Microsoft deal (and possibly some Hedge Fund investments) and go acquire some real money-makers. At least for a while, the Facebook currency is legitimate, and whomever Facebook
Web 3.0 & Comcast (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Comcast sites. We have not gone into the details of all the properties, but you can review the Web 3.0 section of this site for detailed discussions on some of the vertical categories. Context Comcast has zeroed in on
