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  Is Ad Targeting The Next Big Thing? Better targeting equals higher ad rates - Lots of startups and VCs are pinning their hopes on this simple premise. It seems obvious, but there is very little evidence to support it. So what is wrong? Is the ad serving technology not able to take advantage... 08-06-2008, 2:15 PM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Start – A Conference for Entrepreneurs Find an exciting line-up of successful startup founders, investors, and lawyers at Start , a conference geared at equipping talented entrepreneurs with advice on the crucial steps of starting your company, effectively pitching your idea, and potential... 08-06-2008, 1:18 PM by Marketing to Memo from Marketing Filed under: Anand Iyer, Start, Technology Startup

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  Does your Investor know your Domain? One of the key attributes that startups seek in an investor is relevant domain expertise. If you’re making quantum computers and you ask someone who made his fortune in digital media to join your board, that’s sort of like asking a NASCAR racer to be... 08-06-2008, 12:19 AM by Yi-Jian Ngo to Core Infrastructure by Yi-Jian Ngo Filed under: Startup, investor, raising capital, domain

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  Humorous side-note on HBS's value proposition Today's Wall Street Journal , Andrew Ferguson from the Weekly Standard reviews Ahead of the Curve , a memoir of Philip Delves Broughton's experience of Harvard Business School. The part that made me laugh the most was the final paragraph, in which he... 08-05-2008, 2:25 PM by Christopher Griffin to Christopher Griffin on Startup Thinking

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  Key to Western Business Success or Opening to Zen Enlightenment? Concentration May Be Both Brad Feld noted an interesting article tweeted by Tim O'Reilly on concentration , dating from 1930. As I read it I was strikingly reminded of some of the concepts advocated by Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh. Here are a couple of quick comparisons:... 08-04-2008, 6:48 PM by Christopher Griffin to Christopher Griffin on Startup Thinking

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  Why VCs say no 99% of the time Venture Capital investing is a very tough game...and very lucrative if you are good at it. Part of my job at Microsoft is working with VCs, so I have learned a lot about the way they think...and why they say No to 99% of the deals they see.   Fred... 08-03-2008, 1:27 PM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Why VCs look for 10X returns - What you need to know when pitching a VC firm VCs want to invest at least $5M in startups that have potential 10X returns. That is because it takes as much time to manage a $1M investment as it does to manage $5M. Secondly, every startup looks like a winner when they write the check, but Fred Wilson... 08-03-2008, 11:16 AM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Horses, Roads and Online Video Infrastructure During my first drive into Boston many years ago, it didn’t take me long to get hopelessly lost. I later learned that the labyrinthine road system was not in fact an elaborate trap for hapless outsiders, but owed its legacy to a time when horses were... 07-30-2008, 2:13 AM by Yi-Jian Ngo to Core Infrastructure by Yi-Jian Ngo Filed under: p2p video, content distribution network, video delivery, video distribution

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  Where Are They Now—Skinkers Revisited   Skinkers   NEW YORK, NY http://www.skinkers.com   Company Pilots Interactive Live TV on Your PC, Enterprise Product Used on World’s Leading Brands, and Wins UK Technology Innovation and Growth 2008 Awards For communication you can’t miss,... 07-29-2008, 6:23 PM by Startup Superstars to Startup Superstars

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  Nuconomy Announces Integration with Kampyle Yesterday, Kampyle announced that is has integrated its feedback management platform into both Google Analytics and Nuconomy . I’ve been working with Nuconomy for a while and want to congratulate them on their continued push to create a ton of value... 07-29-2008, 2:18 PM by Christopher Griffin to Christopher Griffin on Startup Thinking

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  Innovation Pace in Web 2.0 Monetization Seems Healthy to Me SiliconAlley.com carries a story today by Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News, complaining broadly about the “laziness” among web 2.0 startups toward innovating new forms of monetization for applications that the public seems... 07-28-2008, 3:01 PM by Christopher Griffin to Christopher Griffin on Startup Thinking

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  PHP on Windows Server 2008 I stumbled upon this article that I thought developers running PHP based web sites may be interested in. The authors write: A significant percentage of web sites utilize PHP as a platform for dynamic content. During the development of Windows 2008, Microsoft... 07-28-2008, 2:29 AM by Anand Iyer to Artificial Ignorance - Anand Iyer Filed under: startup, website, oss, php

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  Announcing support for the Apache Software Foundation Today at OSCON , Sam Ramji announced that Microsoft will become an official sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open source projects. There are over 60 top-level projects at the ASF that... 07-25-2008, 12:50 PM by Anand Iyer to Artificial Ignorance - Anand Iyer Filed under: open source, asf

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  Partnering with Microsoft - What you need to know Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here . There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues is influenced... 07-24-2008, 1:03 PM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Filed under: Why Microsoft?, Partnering

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  Fishing on LinkedIn Won’t it be neat to know which customers your competitors are calling on? Or perhaps the number of salespersons they have in a particular geography? How about the technical details of that “top secret” product they’re developing? You would think that... 07-23-2008, 12:50 PM by Yi-Jian Ngo to Core Infrastructure by Yi-Jian Ngo Filed under: Security, compliance, linkedin

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  Me.dium social browsing and social search Me.dium is a web browser plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer that turns web browsing into a social experience. It gives you a personalized map of the Internet showing where you are, and what web sites your friends are visiting in real time. You... 07-23-2008, 10:55 AM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Filed under: Why Microsoft?, Me.dium, MIX08, David Mandell, Technology Startups

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  The Startup Meme - Phase 1, The Prototype I’ve worked with several funded and non-funded startups during my time here at Microsoft. Having seen what works and doesn’t, I thought I’d throw together a series of posts on how to startup a software company. First and foremost, you need to have an... 07-21-2008, 12:01 PM by Anand Iyer to Artificial Ignorance - Anand Iyer Filed under: startup, startup lifecycle, development tools

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  The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup Failure is part of the maturing process in the startup world. If you haven't failed...you aren't trying hard enough, or you aren't "pushing the envelope" far enough. I have always said " Success is a terrible teacher. Success masks over flaws that may... 07-19-2008, 1:12 PM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Microsoft revenues top $60 Billion Microsoft ( MSFT ) announced revenues topped $60 Billion for the year ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 18% over last year. This was the largest annual revenue growth since 1999. Profits were $17.6 billion, up more than 25 percent from a year ago. Growing... 07-18-2008, 8:58 AM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Newspapers take notice - blogs are the future Blogs are going professional and replacing newspapers for insightful, fast breaking, news and analysis. The same thing happened to network TV news years ago. Chris Mathews, Tim Russert, Bill O'Reilly, and others replaced the "just report the facts"... 07-17-2008, 12:11 PM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Cloud Federation Chinese mythology is replete with deities that ride clouds up into the heavens. Many startups similarly seeking nirvana on the back of cloud infrastructure have found their ascent rudely interrupted . It seems unlikely that any single cloud infrastructure... 07-17-2008, 1:18 AM by Yi-Jian Ngo to Core Infrastructure by Yi-Jian Ngo Filed under: Startup, Entrepreneur, eucalyptus, cloud

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  Entellium Releases Rave CRM A recent uptick in coverage of Entellium’s new CRM applications continues with Marshall Lager’s post on destinationCRM.com . With the release of Rave Plus, Rave Complete, and Rave Insight, Entellium is giving every small business owner considering a CRM... 07-16-2008, 8:48 PM by Christopher Griffin to Christopher Griffin on Startup Thinking Filed under: Why Microsoft, Entellium, MIX 08 Videos, Technology Startups

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  Web Innovators Boston WebInno , founded by David Beisel of Venrock, is a Boston based Web Innovators Group where startups can demo their stuff to the tech community. Last night there were three startups that presented on stage (Main Dish) and eight other startups that showed... 07-16-2008, 10:18 AM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

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  Advertising rates dropping, Social Networks lowest CPM PubMatic published its monthly AdPrice Index for July 2008 and it showed ad rates declining in most markets, especially Social Network sites. PubMatic draws its data from 4,000 Web sites that take ad network advertising, 85% of which are based in the... 07-15-2008, 11:57 AM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Filed under: AdCenter

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  Bambi Francisco's VatorTV launches Newsroom Bambi Francisco left CBS MarketWatch about a year ago to launch her own company, Vator.TV . Last week VatorTV announced a new design and new contributors to its Newsroom. I am one of the new contributors along with Mark Cuban, Fred Wilson, and several... 07-15-2008, 11:03 AM by Don Dodge to Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing