For decades financiers of one type or another have been the “Masters of the Universe”. People who, as Bob Dylan once sang, “make the rules, for the wise men and Continue reading »

Just a few years ago, large venture firms were incubating companies for months. During the incubation period, the founders wrote 70+ page business plans, which described the market opportunity, the Continue reading »

Read/WriteTalk has an interesting podcast interview with Dan Saffer, Experience Design Director at Adaptive Path. In the podcast, R/WT host Sean Ammirati and Dan discussed the process of designing for Continue reading »

The Web 2.0 world is looking increasingly like a giant petri dish. There are so many experiments, so much innovation and, as yet, relatively little real revenue. Within this petri Continue reading »

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There's been a lot of discussion over the past 24 hours on the new Techmeme Leaderboard, which is a list of the top 100 sources for the popular tech news Continue reading »

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In our recent post, MySpace: Hot or Not?, we took a look at the social networking giant to understand what's going on with the site. We found that while Continue reading »

Today was the first MySpace/MTV Candidate Dialogue, featuring US presidential candidate John Edwards. The townhall meeting style event was a joint presentation between MySpace's Impact channel and MTV's Choose or Continue reading »

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