Hummer Winblad was the #1 search term on Technorati most of last Saturday and Sunday. I couldn’t find anything significant. Go figure …
Rick Segal is trying to place a half-a-million order but the company, a six-month-old startup is hiding:
“Click on contact us.
Web form. We’ll get back to you with 2 -3 business days. WTF?
Hmm. Click on about us. Long dribble about why they exist, a founders message and nothing about the people.
Okay, let’s re-cap. We have a 6 month old start up making it as hard and as impersonal as possible to take an order while the founder drones on about Web 2.0, being innovative, blaah blaah blaah.”
You want to be successful in business? You need to be available.
Jason Wood raises his eyebrows on Jobster’s recent $18M funding, which he considers a sign of access Venture Capital:
“I don’t know if Jobster will end up a winning company or not, but I do know enough to raise a skeptical eyebrow when I read that they’ve now raised $50 million and carry a $100mm post-money valuation. This in a market that is CROWDED with startups (Simply Hired, Indeed), established online companies (Monster, CareerBuilders) and plenty of adjunct job-related resources (e.g., craigslist, LinkedIn).”
Calling in rich … well, this one certainly isn’t about me 
“One of the best lines I have heard in a long time was uttered by an entrepreneur we know. He was talking about one of his co-founders who one day decided he didn’t want to work anymore. He said about his co-founder, “he called in rich“. I laughed so hard I almost cried.”
Funny as it sounds, it’s a potentially serious situation for a startup, says Fred Wilson, proposing a way to handle the situation when you just ost your motivation and are too wealthy to work. My personal experience is from the other side: when I interviewed for a VP position in a startup, the Founder/CEO was releived that my previous startup had not been financially successful – he only wanted team-mates who were still “hungry”.
The Business Model diagram below by Peter Rip reminds me of my previous life in Big 6 consulting 🙂
Of course the analytical approach helps understand a business, but clearly there are times when the entrepreneur still needs the 30-second summary… like those in our SVASE VC Breakfast sessions. Or the Office 2.0 Under the Radar event by IBDNetwork, where Peter will be a panelist.
Talk about Panel Discussions, here are a few more, all of them next week, in the SF Bay Area:
Jeff Clavier will moderate a discussion on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise by IBDNetwork. I heard Jeff and fellow “Irregular” Jeff Nolan discuss this meme a few times, it will be interesting to see/hear how it evolves. (I wrote about related issues here and here).
Web 2.0 Forum and Amidzad Summer Party. VC Panelists: Accel’s Kevin Efrusy, Opus Capital’s Ken Elefant, Partech’s David Welsh and David Lane from Diamondhead.
Raising Capital For Early Stage Tech Companies – The Definitive Crash Course by SVASE, with Lightspeed’s Jake Seid, DFJ’s Warren Packard, Garage’s Bill Reichert and former SVASE President Laura Roden from The Angels Forum.
Rick Segal always points to interesting stories, so I wanted to click throgh this post:
“And I thought the US was getting conservative
Check out this commercial that got pulled in New Zealand for being a bit much. This is racy? Hmm…”
… but this is what I got:
To use this product, you need to install free software
This product requires Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft© Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6. To download these free software applications, click the links below and follow the on-screen instructions.
Step 1: Download Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is free to download.
Damn, Microsoft, I have all the stuff you want on my PC, I just happen to browse in Firefox 
And no, I don’t care to switch browsers….
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