mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2008 | startups, seattle, earth class mail, keiretsu, angel, investing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | angel, investing, startups
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 25 2008 | seattle, entrepreneur, vc, startups, investing, co-working, judys book
Andy Sack and Chris Devore (both of Judy's Book) have created a $2M fund and co-working space for new internet founders. Very nice idea. I like the investment tie they are making between founders in the fund to get a pool of equity in each other's companies (I talked about doing this last year - but these guys are actually putting $ behind it).
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2008 | video, financial, investing, bear stearns
click to playHas Cramer responded to his exceedingly bad advice to hold on to Bear Stearns last week?
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 10 2007 | keiretsu, startups, angel, investing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | video, startups, investing, bubble, web 2.0
click to playAlmost as good as "White and Nerdy". Must-see for Web 2.0 entrepreneurs.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 13 2006 | social, facebook, techcrunch, vc, investing
Presumably confidential Yahoo document analyzing the business case for acquisition of FaceBook for $1.6B.
Interesting bits:
- Pretty low CPM now - $0.25 in 2005, and $0.42 in 2006
- Assumption that direct ad sales will dominate revenue with over $16 CPM and 37% of ad inventory (by 2015).
- 6.2 million users now - projecting to grow to 52 million in 2015 (60% of available market), including 15 million alumni.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 07 2006 | web 2.0, startups, investing
I was quoted in a Web 2.0 business model article on CNET (by Martin LaMonica).
Quoted: Mike Koss, a former Microsoft executive and angel investor, earlier this year joined Seattle-area start-up BlueDot, a site that allows people to share Web bookmarks--a product area that already has many alternatives, including Delicious, which was bought by Yahoo.
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Koss is optimistic that people's desire to share Web content--one of the ideas behind the Web 2.0 model--will create room for large companies with scalable technology.
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But the company is not taking a "if you build it, they will come" attitude, he said. It introduced Web advertising earlier this year to test its business model, which hinges on gathering data on users' interest for advertisers.
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"A lot of Web 2.0 companies are ignoring the revenue model completely now. The VCs (venture capitalists) are telling them to get the eyeballs and we'll figure out how to monetize later," Koss said. "We hope to pitch to VCs that we really understand the business model."
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 01 2006 | games, nintendo, investing, stock
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2006 | investing, google, youtube, legal
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