Admin Advisory Capital Network Bit of admin: Stowe Boyd, Umair Haque and I have set up something called Advisory Capital Network. Stowe explained what it is in his intro post: "...a loose federation of strategists to help Web 2.0 start-ups and established players trying to move into the Web 2.0 arena. I'll provide more details of my advisory roles in an upcoming post. btw… Richard MacManus View comments
Business Massive sells to Microsoft - another kiwi millionaire A few weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft had acquired online gaming advertising platform Massive for "between $200-$400 million". Now I've discovered that a kiwi (from Wellington of course!) was one of the co-founders. According to this NZ Herald story, 31-year-old Wellingtonian Claudia Batten founded Massive Inc four years ago with… Richard MacManus View comments
Statistics Google Properties One more quick post for the day, before I go and watch the rugby (go Canes!). Hitwise has done a table showing relative popularity of the Google properties: Compare this to Alexa's breakdown: - google.com - 75% - mail.google.com - 8% - images.google.com - 8% - groups.google.com - 2% - video.google.com - 2% - news.google.com - 1… Richard MacManus View comments
Business Mark Fletcher's Garage Philosophy for Startups Mark Fletcher in many ways embodies the successful Web startup entreprenuer, having created and sold two multi-million dollar companies - ONEList to Yahoo (via a merger with eGroups) and Bloglines to Ask Jeeves. Niall Kennedy has notes, audio and a transcript of a talk Fletcher recently did. This is pretty much required reading for budding 2.0… Richard MacManus View comments
Yahoo Yahoo Analyst Day Yesterday Yahoo! held their Analyst Day - the 188-page slide presentation is here (12MB). There's too much in the preso for any one mind to fully comprehend, but here are the things that stood out for me... Yahoo's Big Bets for the Next 5 Years See slide 16: 1. Next Generation Experience --> a.k.a. a customer focus, the user… Richard MacManus View comments