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All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club

Posted on May 24, 2011. Filed under: casual games, Internet, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, Web/Tech |

[Follow Me on Twitter] “ Don’t you know that you are a shooting star, And all the world will love you just as long, As long as you are.”  – Paul Rodgers, Shooting Star With the IPO market now blown wide-open, and the media completely infatuated with frothy trades in the bubbly late stage private market, [...]

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The Freight Train That Is Android

Posted on March 24, 2011. Filed under: android, Internet, iphone, Mobile, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | Tags: , |

[Follow Me on Twitter] “People get ready, there’s a train a comin’” – The Impressions From Zacks via Yahoo: Mark Vickery, On Thursday March 24, 2011, 4:58 pm EDT “BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (NasdaqGS: RIMM – News) beat its fiscal 4Q EPS estimates by 2 cents per share, but missed slightly on quarterly revenues and [...]

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Silicon Valley’s IPO Anxiety

Posted on November 15, 2010. Filed under: Internet, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Tags: , , , |

[Follow Me on Twitter] “Living in the limelight The universal dream For those who wish to seem. Those who wish to be Must put aside the alienation, Get on with the fascination…” — Limelight from Moving Pictures, Rush If you could travel back in time to the early 1990’s and ask Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs [...]

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On Google, Growth, Pricing Power, and Valuation Multiples

Posted on July 15, 2010. Filed under: Internet, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | Tags: , , |

Last night, Google reported financial results for the second quarter of 2010. While revenue growth was up 24% year over year, revenue was fairly flat compared with Q1 of 2010. Moreover, earnings fell short of average street estimates sending Google down $20 per share (4%) in the aftermarket. Based on current estimates (which might change [...]

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Google’s Acquires ITA: Will Deeper Vertical Integration Lead to Higher Revenues?

Posted on July 8, 2010. Filed under: advertising, Internet, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | Tags: , , , , , |

“It’s funny how fallin feels like flyin, for a little while…” – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Soundtrack On July 1st, Google announced its intention to acquire ITA Software. ITA owns a primarily B2B airfare search and pricing system called QPX. Several of the leading online travel sites, like Orbitz, Kayak, and Bing Travel, use information [...]

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When It Comes to Television Content, Affiliate Fees Make the World Go ‘Round

Posted on April 28, 2010. Filed under: Internet, online video, Uncategorized, video, Web/Tech | Tags: , , , , |

“The clock on the wall’s moving slower My heart it sinks to the ground And the storm that I thought would blow over Clouds the light of the love that I found” – Fool in the Rain, Led Zeppelin More often than not, we here in Silicon Valley are prone to idealism. We see a [...]

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Virtual Goods, Accounting, and the Power of the “Rental” Model

Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under: social networking, Uncategorized, Virtual Goods | Tags: , , |

American journalists and corporate executives have been slow to appreciate the beauty, brilliance, and consumer allure of the virtual goods business model.It’s not that they did not have data points – China is chock full of multi-US$billion market capitalization companies that are based on this business model. That said, many luddites predicted it was an [...]

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Android or iPhone? Wrong Question

Posted on January 5, 2010. Filed under: iphone, Mobile, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Tags: , , , , , |

[Follow Me on Twitter] In a recent New York Times article, Kathryn Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst was quoted suggesting that Apple’s iPhone is the key catalyst for an important new technology trend. “Applications make the smartphone trend a revolutionary trend – one we haven’t seen in consumer technology for many years.” This argument rings [...]

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Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

Posted on October 29, 2009. Filed under: Internet, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

[Follow Me on Twitter] I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption. After all, as a venture capitalist it is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on a large incumbent. One of the most successful ways to do this is to change [...]

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Want To Know More About the Future of Internet TV?: Let’s Look to Korea

Posted on September 29, 2009. Filed under: Internet, online video, Uncategorized, video, Web/Tech | Tags: , , , , |

[Follow Me on Twitter] We are clearly at a very important point in time when it comes to Internet video, especially video that is served to your television, but over the Internet (also known as “over-the-top” Internet video). Christmas of 2009 and Christmas of 2010 will mark the point in time that Internet menus began [...]

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