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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

[Note: Update to this post, posted 2/22/09] A few weeks back, a friend mentioned an idea he had heard suggesting that the government consider entering the VC (venture capital) business as part of the overall stimulus plan. Specifically, the argument was made for the government to provide excess venture capital funding to the green sector. [.].

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Yesterday I met with a cool company named Slide Rocket that has a very slick product. Based on Adobe Flex, SlideRocket has built a web based PowerPoint alternative that some equate more to Apple’s Keynote (plus it has collaboration built in). One reviewer even said: ”The entire interface is, dare I say it, gorgeous. It’s slick, smooth, gentle on [.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

While I attempted to bury this issue last week, this Sunday, Thomas Friedman again used his pulpit in the New York Times Opinion section to beg for a VC Bailout. Last week he merely suggested that the government invest along side venture firms. This week, he went even further astray and suggested that the government [.].

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Many companies and visionaries have pontificated about the future of video ads and different techniques for monetizing online videos. A big part of this is driven by the fact that while YouTube is a huge user success, its a less proven monetization success. On a recent trip to NYC, an idea came up which I can’t get [.].

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Prominent finance publications like the WSJ and the Motley Fool along with several bloggers have recently taken shots at Google with respect to their decision to re-price a boat-load of employee stock options. Just to review the details, in their last earnings call google management stated that they would offer all employees with options that have strike prices above the [.].

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