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March 2006 - Posts
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08:14 AM Friday, March 31, 2006
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Frank Gruber wrote a good review, published on TechCrunch , of the current state of online feed readers. This review covered just the online web based readers, not the client applications. Newsgator and some others offer both a web based reader and a Read More...
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09:48 AM Wednesday, March 29, 2006
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Angel investors invested $23.1B in 49,500 companies in 2005, according to the annual report from The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. This compares to traditional VC investment of $21.7B invested in 2,939 deals according Read More...
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07:56 AM Monday, March 27, 2006
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There are a list of questions I ask entrepreneurs when evaluating start-ups. One of them is "Is your product a Vitamin (nice to have) or a painkiller (got to have it)? Of course everyone wants to think their product is a "must have" painkiller, but very Read More...
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08:20 AM Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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We will sell no wine OS before its time. I am reminded of the Gallo wine commercial of many years ago. The line was "We will sell no wine before its time" and the meaning was that high quality wine can not be released to the market before it is ready. Read More...
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05:43 PM Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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MIX 06 is a Microsoft conference for developers of rich media web applications. CNet is covering the conference " Gates looks to expand view beyond Windows ". "You can think of RSS as the start of the programmable Web. As Web sites start exposing their Read More...
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02:19 PM Friday, March 17, 2006
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Onfolio, founded by JJ Allaire, has been acquired by Microsoft. I have been working with Onfolio for over a year now helping them build a partnership with Microsoft. That partnership evolved into a marriage on March 8, 2006 . I wrote about Onfolio several Read More...
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07:10 AM Thursday, March 16, 2006
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In a CNET story today IBM exec Nicholas Donofrio says " The fact is that innovation was a little different in the 20th century. It's not easy (now) to come up with greater and different things," Donofrio said. "If you're looking for the next big thing, Read More...
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06:44 AM Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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Here is a chance to hear Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene talk about what is new in Office. See a webcast of the keynote speech at the Office System Developers Conference. Go to this link to sign up. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=63190 Start Time: Read More...
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10:55 PM Tuesday, March 14, 2006
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Ray Ozzie created Notes and sold it to Lotus, and later sold it to IBM. Microsoft had a chance to buy Notes before Lotus/IBM but passed. Later Ray founded Groove, a Massachusetts based collaboration company. This time Microsoft bought the company, and Read More...
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07:42 AM Friday, March 10, 2006
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France has entrepreneurs and startup companies equal in quality and leadership to any we see in Boston, New York, or Silicon Valley. This week we were in Paris meeting with VCs and startups looking to build partner relationships with Microsoft. Special Read More...
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11:01 AM Friday, March 03, 2006
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Microsoft Research holds an annual "open house" for employees only called TechFest. This year there were over 150 demos, and 24 lectures over the two day event. The demos covered all areas; adaptive technologies, database stuff, mobility and wireless, Read More...
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