Tag Archives: Venture Capital

The Attention Battle

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Many virtual worlds, from Club Penguin to Second Life, combine the best of social networking and immersive gaming to create a great user experience. One of the most interesting aspects of the result is that it requires focus (a fact, … Continue reading →

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Monetizing Social Networks

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

The MIT VC Conference is tomorrow. I’m taking part in a panel on monetizing social networking businesses. It promises to be a very interesting discussion, judging by the emails that have been flying between the panelists and the caliber of … Continue reading →

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Of Supercomputers and Contrarian Bets

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

WSJ reports on the launch of SiCortex, a company I’m involved with. Talk about a contrarian bet–to back a “supercomputer” company in the age of Linux clusters and to spend non-trivial amounts of capital on developing sophisticated chips, interconnects and enclosures when everyone else gets … Continue reading →

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Mobile Advertising: Not If, But When And How

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

People seem to fall in two camps with respect to mobile advertising: those who see it as an imminent opportunity of significant size and those who say it’s a few years off. No one is willing to say that mobile advertising … Continue reading →

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Picking & Funding Winners

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

One can argue that the rules for picking winning startups have evolved over the last ten years. In Bubble 1.0, you could have used a dart against a Broadview market map. Bubble 2.0 is all about consumer online/mobile plays, which … Continue reading →

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Venture Capital Video

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I was playing with the Magnify.net beta and created a simple site with VC related videos–VCVideo. I haven’t tracked down Borat’s VC pitch yet…

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Was that your VC experience?

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

One of my entrepreneurs sent this cartoon. Sad but true–some VCs are unwilling to work around the weaknesses of their teams. No teams are perfect but many teams can significantly increase their odds of success with the right combination of … Continue reading →

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Ouch, that hurts

Posted on October 6, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Jeff Nolan points out in Venture Chronicles that East Coast VCs just don’t get it when it comes to Web 2.0. Harsh words but then he asks “where are the Web 2.0 companies on the East Coast?” Is it case … Continue reading →

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Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services (Mechanical Turk, S3 and EC2)

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference today. Jeff Bezos was the first keynote speaker. His talk focused on Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular, Mechanical Turk, S3 and EC2. Jeff didn’t talk about the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), which is … Continue reading →

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Not Web 2.0, Bubble 2.0

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Just like in the Bubble 1.0 days, the mainstream press is starting to question some of what’s happening online these days. If I recall correctly, how it proceeds from here is as follows: more questions combined with more interest, exuberance, irrational … Continue reading →

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