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Web Services in the Mist

More and more, the entrepreneurs we see present their business in the context of an ecosystem. This is a healthy development because it acknowledges the complexity of the environments within which start-ups operate today. Technology generally and web services in [...]  Read more

A Delicious Eight Months

On April 14th, we closed an investment in Delicious. We wrote about our initial investment here. Eight months later, Delicious has been sold to Yahoo!. The news is on the Delicious blog.We are thrilled to see Joshua Schachter, one of [...]  Read more

Sessions Top Ten Insights – Five

One of the insights from our Sessions event was from Yochai Benkler who said the following about peer production: we do have very good research on how adding money undermines social motivations depending on contentsI am not sure how to [...]  Read more

Sessions Top Ten Insights – Four

Here are some more of the insights that we gained from our Sessions discussion...Michael Parekh makes the point that all peers are not created equal…“Another thing, the term peer to peer, one of the things that's implicit, unfortunately, is that [...]  Read more

Sessions Top Ten Insights – Three

Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week.Umair said: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that "What does an abundance of information create?" [...]  Read more

Sessions Top Ten Insights – Two

Social production systems seem to deliver a much higher portion of the economic value created to the consumers than traditional production systems do. As Tim O’Reilly says,"if you look at … Ebay or Google, even though they're very, very successful [...]  Read more