Very interesting video of the initial days of Next - It is good to see even Steve Jobs grapple with the same issues as other mortal entrepreneurs.
November 27, 2011
May 28, 2011
Kevin Ryan Video Interview
One of the best tech entrepreneurs - Doubleclick, Gilt Groupe, 10Gen
May 24, 2011
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November 9, 2010
October 14, 2010
Don Valentine Video
Don Valentine is a silicon valley legend. He is the founder of Sequoia Capital, the iconic VC firm that invested in companies such as Apple, Cisco, Yahoo, Google, Youtube etc. Obviously he knows a thing or two about entrepreneurship and innovation. Here is a talk he gave at Stanford GSB:
October 3, 2010
Essense of Leadership
A great leader is someone who can communicate profound things in simple ways in word (Churchill) or in action (Gandhi).
August 9, 2010
Google buys social payment company Jambool
Social gaming has overtaken email in the amount of time Americans spend online and Google has a huge hole in this activity. So it is buying up companies to fill its gaps. It recently bought Slide and now is buying Jambool that makes a popular social payment system called Social Gold.
Google continues to gobble up companies that will form the backbone of it’s new social strategy and the upcoming war with Facebook. Last week it was Slide. And they are now buying Jambool
and their Social Gold payment product, we’ve heard from multiple sources. The purchase price is $55 million plus another $15 million -$20 million in an earnout, say our sources.
Social Gold gives app developers the ability to build payments directly into their games and other applications. It was founded by Amazon veterans Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein, and has raised $6 million in funding.
Like other payments companies they’ve been hit very hard by Facebook Credits