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Author: MonkeyGoLucky Added: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:53:27 -0800 Duration: 322

The current financial crisis might actually have a silver lining for venture capital investing, VC titan Vinod Khosla told Andy up on the MIT campus yesterday. "When we go through a period like this, it's actually healthy in the long run," he says in this clip. Khosla is an affiliated partner at KPCB and the founder of Khosla Ventures. He says that people with money will invest it somewhere, and the current complexity of the financial system will drive people to "invest in things we understand and are real," making it easier, rather than harder, to raise funds in the VC world. "I'm an optimist," he adds.This isn't to say that there won't be any repercussions--he does anticipate a year or two of more cautious investing.Andy interviewed him at the MIT Technology Review EmTech08 conference, where Khosla was a keynote speaker. Martin LaMonica at CNET wrote a story about his presentation, and Khosla expounds upon the opinions he expresses in this interview in a piece he wrote for Forbes that ran on Monday.--Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer

In September’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by three guests to discuss the investment potential of the Semantic Web and semantic technologies. With continuing investment in (and acquisition of) companies for whom semantic technologies are a key part of their proposition, we explore the extent to which investors are interested in ’semantic technology’ per se, and look at recent investments from Union Square Ventures to illustrate the wider discussion. A number of entrants to this year’s TechCrunch 50 event feature a semantic technology focus, and we also look at these with the help of Union Square’s Brad Burnham, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld, and VentureBeat’s Chris Morrison. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Adaptive Blue Calais digg DotSpots (and TC50 coverage) Fotonauts (and TC50 coverage) Freebase Google Imindi (and TC50 coverage) Inform Technologies Metaweb Microsoft Popego (and TC50 coverage) Powerset Radar Networks Riverdale Partners Semantic Wave report Thomson Reuters TripAdvisor TripIt Twine UpTake (plus coverage on TechCrunch, VentureBeat and ZDNet) Wikipedia Zemanta This conversation was recorded on Thursday 18 September, 2008. Bookmark It

As we watch the carnage on Wall Street, we wonder about how the venture capital community, the lifeblood of technology start-ups, is going to fare. This afternoon I was over at the New York Times to interview Vikas Bajaj about the turmoil on Wall Street. Vikas and Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote the story in today's paper about Goldman and Morgan Stanley becoming bank holding companies.While hedge funds and private equity funds have been battered by the credit crisis, venture capital will remain attractive to institutional investors, Vikas told me.Maybe a little ray of sunshine on San Hill Road?-- Andy Plesser

"People are going to be more conservative," says venture capitalist Fred Wilson in a video interview with Tech Confidential about the impact of the economy on the technonlogy industry. "Everyone's going to think harder about writing a check for anything," says Wilson, whose Union Square Ventures backs microblogging firm Twitter Inc. and other Web 2.0 startups. "There are times when people want to take risks and times when people don't want to take risks. Clearly, no one's going to want to take risks right now." For entrepreneurs, that means it will be harder to raise money but not impossible, says Wilson. "Good ideas are still going to get funded." Internet companies are less vulnerable than they were a decade ago because they cost less than one tenth to operate than they did then. Burn rates -- the differences between the amount of money companies bring in compared with the amount they spend -- are much lower now. "Most companies back then had million-dollar-a-month burn rates," says Wilson. Today, Union Square's portfolio companies are spending $50,000 to $70,000 a month, or $600,000 to $700,000 for the whole year. "In this environment, that's a much healthier place to be." Lessons learned from the dot com bubble burst? "Don't do crazy things that cost a lot of money," chides Wilson, who squeezed in a quick interview with us at Web 2.0 Expo between giving a presentation and watching one by Maria Thomas, new CEO of his portfolio company Etsy Inc. Check back later for video interviews with conference organizer Tim O'Reilly, the creators of online video show Lonelygirl15 and others.

This video focuses exclusively on early-stage startup advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. Thomas Stocking and David Dennis walk through the process of starting a company, step-by-step, covering everything from selecting a winning product idea to negotiating VC funding. Thomas and David start by highlighting the importance of initially brainstorming numerous ideas, and being ruthless with the selection process. They also emphasize that founders should vet these ideas with experts in the field, and they provide advice on how to find people who will provide objective feedback (this may include calling up VCs, analysts, media contacts...even executives of competing companies!) They mention the challenges of covering initial startup expenses, and discuss strategies for successfully closing your first round of venture capital funding, which involve being prepared with a compelling presentation and answers to tough questions. Thomas and David also communicate that incredible persistence is required to make a startup company succeed, but at the same time, founders must be willing to reassess and refocus their business plan continually...it's crucial not to become too attached to one idea! The interview concludes with their advice on the skill set required to succeed as a founder or CEO of a startup, and how to direct one's career such that you acquire and develop those skills. If you're thinking about starting a company, then this is the episode for you!

In advance of the 2008 AlwaysOn GoingGreen Conference, we surveyed leaders in the green tech community on some of the critical issues facing the greentech sector and the environment. Here's what several of them, including chiefs from Morgan Stanley, DFJ, Vantage Point, IBM, Goodwin Procter and others, had to say. For a breakdown of the survey results go to http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/29160

Someone might want to check technology entrepreneurs Kevin Ryan (left) and Dwight Merriman for steroids. Since selling DoubleClick Inc., where Ryan was CEO and Merriman was co-founder and chief technologist, to Hellman and Friedman LLC for $1.1 billion in 2005, they have coached not just one but half a dozen startups under the AlleyCorp LLC franchise, which they describe as a network of affiliated companies. Here's Tech Confidential's tour of AlleyCorp's operation in Manhattan's Silicon Alley. We start with our video interview with Ryan. See Tech Confidential for more: http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/behind-the-money/blog/behind-the-money/video-exclusive-alleycorp-behi.php

Nielsen teamed with Integrated Media Mesurement Inc. to create the first out-of-home national television rating system, the companies announced yesterday. IMMI uses cell phones to measure consumers' media consumption wherever they happen to be, making it possible to track viewing in locations like gyms, offices, and bars.The full press release can be viewed here. Andy interviewed Steve Jurvetson at the AlwaysOn conference about IMMI, one of the companies where his premier venture capital group Draper Fisher Jurvetson has invested. Jurvetson also talked about other exciting companies in DFJ's portfolio, like women's lifestyle site and Web 2.0 success story Glam. The site has rocketed past competitor iVillage to become one of the top 15 most popular Web sites in the United States, receiving more U.S. impressions per day than Facebook, Jurvetson says.--Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer

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This week we delve into the world of technology. As the internet matures it is more difficult for startup technology companies to find funding. Brad Burnham, co-founder of the New York venture capital firm, Union Square Ventures speaks with The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn about investing in early-stage internet companies and M&A in the technology industry. There are also several dealmaking events the week of August 18-22, 2008. Here are some key dates: Aug. 18. - Electronic Arts offer for Take-Two expires Aug. 21 - Heinz announces earnings Want to offer us some suggestions? Leave a comment below or e-mail us at reporters@thedeal.com.

Dave Goldberg is an entrepreneur-in-residence at VC firm Benchmark Capital, where he works to evaluate and identify investment opportunities.

Roy Gilbert, Director of Global Operations for Google, kicked off the 2008 InOneWeekend event in Cincinnati! 100 people, 3 days, 1 startup

Roy Gilbert, Director of Global Operations at Google, kicks off the 2008 InOneWeekend event in Cincinnati. 100 People, 3 Days, 1 Startup

Movin' On Up! (to the 4th floor):The construction of the new office is underway, a few of the team members reminisce about the early days of the company.

Whom to venture capitalists and investors turn to when they want to find out about a new and emerging technology or need help evaluating a new business plan? Meet Prabakar Sundarrajan, who helps VC... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

This is a note to readers of this blog. As many of you know, I m the CEO of Radar Networks, the makers of a new service called Twine. Twine is a service for interest networking, which I believe is the next evolution of social media. How are social networks and interest networks different? Social networks are about connecting to people and messaging with them -- they are basically the next evolution of contact management and email. Interest networks are about leveraging collective intelligence to discover and share great content around your interests -- they are the next evolution of social media (discussion forums, wikis, blogs, social news aggregation, and social bookmarking). Interest networks are for making sense of information and discovering new information that matters to you. I now use Twine as my main place for authoring and sharing content on the Web. (I also use Twine as my main place for keeping up with my many interests. The Twine community does a great job of scouring the Web to find the content that I want to know about. Generally if there is an article that matters to me, it shows up in Twine very quickly. I no longer have to read as many RSS feeds. This is the power of collective intelligence at its best.) However, although Twine can be used both to author and discover content around interest, in this article I will focus on the authoring side of the story. Of course I am biased, but speaking from the perspective of a blogger, I can say that Twine is rapidly becoming the personal publishing environment I always dreamed of having. It s an ideal environment to author content and distribute it to highly relevant audiences. In Twine, I have many different public and private microblogs on various topics that matter to me, and I also participate in microblogs that others have created. It s super easy to post to one or many of them at once. Twine also has good support for discussions. It s very easy to have discussions around any piece of content -- and the discussions simply work better than they do in my Typepad blog. And of course, Twine has cool features such as automatic semantic tagging of all my posts, great content management features for finding all the content I have added, and powerful contextual recommendations to other interesting content that are added to my content. As a result of these benefits, in the last month, I have found that my blogging activity in Twine has become about 100X my blogging activity here in Typepad (no offense to Typepad, by the way -- I really like Typepad too, but as a means of distributing content, it just isn t as useful to me as Twine). Posting in a traditional blog is a labor intensive process and in the end my post only appears to the readers of one blog. But in Twine it is as easy as bookmarking something, or authoring a note, and then sharing it across a bunch of different communities. And Twine helps me keep track of the discussion around each of my posts as it evolves. So if you are interested in what I m reading, what I m thinking about, and what matters to me, you ll find a lot more of that in Twine. If you are not yet a Twine member already, register and you will be let in very quickly. Here is where I hang out in Twine: Nova Spivack s Public Twine -- This is my blog in Twine, for general posts. Web 3.0 - Semantic Web -- This is a twine about, well, what the title says. There are thousands of participants. Cool -- This is a twine about unsually cool things. It s the Twine equivalent of Boing Boing. But instead of a small elite group controlling what gets in, the entire community helps. News of the Strange -- I admit it, I really like fringe news and odd news stories. Science Discoveries -- A twine about emerging discoveries in science. Web Industry Trends -- A twine about new ideas and trends in the Web biz. And many, many more... You can see them on my Profile in Twine. And if you want to track all my public posts in Twine, go to my profile and subscribe to my RSS feed in Twine. Twine is still in invite only beta -- but in the second half of July we will be opening up all the public content in Twine to the open Web. Anyone will be able to read it and we will be letting people in faster as well. I will still blog here when I have larger articles to share. But on a day-to-day basis, I will be posting a lot more in Twine. Hope to see you there! (By the way, if you are a member of Twine and you are also finding that Twine is becoming the center of your social media life, feel free to copy and paste this post and adapt it into your own blog)

De-Construction:The location of the new office is decided, as the current office space is becoming over-crowded.

For the last 20 years, venture capital has underwritten most of the transformative software and Internet companies. However, change is in the wind. Evolving economics (for both startups and venture funds), combined with changing markets, will have a dramatic impact on the venture capital industry, and move things away from Internet IT. Get ready for a Venture Capital Shakeout.

Author: alwaysonvideos Added: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:24:26 -0800 Duration: 254Elevation Partner s Roger McNamee predicts that the mobile device industrys migration from feature phones to smart phones will produce even greater disruption than what the PC industry experienced as it moved from character-mode to graphical interface

Elevation Partner's Roger McNamee predicts that the mobile device industry s migration from feature phones to smart phones will produce even greater disruption than what the PC industry experienced as it moved from character-mode to graphical interface

Engine Yard's Co-Founder & CEO, Lance Walley, and Co-Founder & CTO Tom Mornini discuss the ever-popular Ruby on Rails framework, web application deployment challenges, Twitter's scalability issues, and their company's solution to it all so you can go drinking on launch date.

Author: RockStartup Added: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:50:06 -0800 Duration: 442Evil Ted: Ted is speaking in Toronto and runs into arch nemesis Mike Arrington.

Author: RockStartup Added: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:50:06 -0800 Duration: 464Full House: The PayPerPost team is expanding as the company grows. Ted looks to fill a void on the West Coast.

Author: RockStartup Added: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:50:06 -0800 Duration: 464Full House: The PayPerPost team is expanding as the company grows. Ted looks to fill a void on the West Coast.

Cambrian House Invitation to VenCorps

At the EconAds Dennis Miller, general partner at Spark Capital said that the firm will be investing in a new venture with the next "David Karp" , CEO of Tumblr. "We are kind of six degrees of David right now. He has been a great secret weapon for us," he said. In this clip Dennis also discusses the challenges of advertising on online video and emerging technologies that will help guide advertisers.For more see thedeal.com/blogs

Day of Reckoning:After months of planning and a large investment of time and money, its time for PostieCon. The team hurries to set up before people arrive while Pete and Ted scramble to fix an oversight for their first public demo of SocialSpark.