In The Limelight: An American Entrepreneur In China Talks About Startup Culture
Updated: 2010-01-31 11:24:18
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Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise CrunchBase Crunchies 2009 More Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch50 TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan About Advertise Archives Company Index Contact CrunchCam Events Jobs Trends : Subscribe ClientShow Debuts Realtime Collaboration App For Creative Pitches 15 Comments by Leena Rao on January 30, 2010 Last fall , TechCrunch50 startup ClientShow presented its innovative application to help creative , advertising and marketing professionals show , pitch , share and sell their work to clients more effectively through real-time collaboration and communication . Similar to a WebEx for creative professionals , ClientShow allows users to essentially create a virtual agency” to collaborate and share ideas with clients . This week , the startup is debuting its platform in private beta . We have 1000 invites for Techcrunch readers . here The application , which is built on Adobe Air , includes a dashboard which lets the agency view client lists , projects and pitch sessions at a single glance . The dashboard acts as an organizational launching pad , where you can see attached notes and
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This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto in 2005 and sold this company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP Product Management. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner focusing on early-stage technology companies.
TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world.
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Those two quotes are both from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The first was during an earnings call in late 2008 when Jobs fielded a question about why Apple wasn't cutting prices amid the rising success of netbooks. The second came on Wednesday as Jobs was unveiling the iPad.
Apple has made it clear all along that they had no plans to build a netbook. And true to their word, they haven't. But that doesn't mean that Apple didn't feel there was a need for a device that resided in between a full laptop and a mobile phone — in fact, that's squarely where Apple is positioning the iPad. With it, they feel that they've created a $500 (for the baseline version) device that is superior to every netbook out there.
A lot of people use Twitter as a primary way of getting information quickly these days. Accounts such as BreakingNews are hugely popular because they offer up stories to their 1.6 million followers (and even more through retweets) instantaneously. Topicfire, a realtime news aggregator we covered in December is now trying to extend that concept to all different topics.
While there are no shortage of services attempting to leverage Twitter to distill information for different topics, Topicfire's streams seem pretty solid thanks to the use of their HeatRank technology, which is the same thing that powers Topicfire itself. While there are a few factors that go into HeatRank, the main driving force behind it are comments on stories. If they're coming in fast enough, the HeatRank will get pushed to 10.
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In case it wasn't obvious, being an entrepreneur is risky business. Even those that get investments have a relatively small likelihood of a successful exit. So early-stage investment firm First Round Capital has a plan to alleviate some of the risk: an entrepreneur's exchange fund.
For those not aware, an exchange fund in this regard is exactly what it sounds like: company founders are given the option to give up a small piece of the stock they own in their venture in exchange for a piece of the action of the larger pool of all the First Round portfolio companies that choose to participate. Basically, this allows these entrepreneurs to diversify their own holdings without having to sell any stock. More importantly, it lowers their risk of walking away with nothing while adding an incentive to see other companies in the portfolio succeed.
, , Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise CrunchBase More Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch50 TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan About Archives Contact Advertise Jobs Reviews Twitter CrunchBar Email RSS : Subscribe iPad tag for all your iPad-post-related needs , from earliest rumor to latest news Developers , not Apple , will make or break the iPad 83 Comments by Matt Burns on January 29, 2010 The iPad’s fate isn’t in the hands of Apple . Jobs Co . has done their part and made the device . The iPad’s success lies solely in the hands of developers . Because unlike the iPhone or iPod touch , the iPad doesn’t really have a core function . The iPhone is nothing more than a glorified telephone and the iPod touch is just another PMP . But what’s the iPad A big iPod touch None of the iPad’s functions seem to define it . Ebook reading That may turn out to be just a novelty feature for many buyers . Web browsing Maybe , but the Internet is formatted for a mouse and keyboard , a tablet simply doesn’t offer much , if any , advantage over a netbook or computer running a full OS . Early reports are even suggesting that the iPad isn’t even a
Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise CrunchBase Crunchies 2009 More Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch50 TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan About Advertise Archives Company Index Contact CrunchCam Events Jobs Trends : Subscribe Windows Mobile Finally Checks Out Foursquare 23 Comments by MG Siegler on January 29, 2010 For much of the past year , the major criticism of Foursquare was that it only worked in a few select cities in the U.S . and was basically iPhone-only . In the past few months , both Foursquare itself and a growing core of third-party developers have changed that . Today brings yet another expansion in the Foursquare universe with the beta launch of a Windows Mobile . app To be clear , this app is only meant for touch screen Windows phones , and you need to be running either Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.5. But if you have those , you can submit your email address here to be let into the beta . Once they kick the tires in beta for a bit , the plan is to submit the app to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile , Windows Mobile Sr . Product Manager Anand Iyer writes today on his personal blog Iyer has been
Like bad beer, cracker jacks, and drunken fans getting hammered in the parking lot, smack-talking and sports-betting are staples of American sports. And that's why Bema Studios created Smackdaddy, a free iPhone app [iTunes link] that allows you to both bet on games (currently just NFL, NHL and NBA) and tell your friends they smell. I got a chance to play with Smackdaddy this Sunday and loved it - it is easy to use, intuitive, and addictive
Social bookmarking service Delicious is kicking the year off with a few enhancements to its service and interface. Delicious, which has made Michael's favorite products list for the past three years, allows you to store, access and share your bookmarks and links from around the web.
The service has updated its bookmark display options in a more compact interface, combining all of the options to th right of the Tagbar. Tag Options has been reshuffled and moved it to the sidebar where the tags are actually listed, which makes sense.
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Listen: cry me a river about Flash and multi-tasking. If Apple wants to keep multi-tasking for their own apps in an effort to prevent folks from making their OS run like Windows Mobile on a good day, be my guest. Push servers work great for always-connected applications. As for Flash, I think it's all political.
Anyway, rant over. Those little minxes at 9to5mac found Flash running in Safari on the iPad. If you watch the video after the jump, you notice that when they browse the NYT you can see the Dining section pop up. The Dining section is usually represented by video in a Flash box.
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