TJ's WeblogTechnology, Venture Capital and EntrepreneurshipWhy wine (or the wine industry) is a scam...- December 28, 2007 Auren relieves some pressure and rants about the inflated prices and priorities for wine. First, why is it so important to drink alcohol at a proper meal I mean, is it so important that we need to alter our state-of-mind while we engage in discourse over a nice meal Is the company of the others at the meal so bad that we need to mollify it with some alcohol Of course not. So why the attraction to ALWAYS have alcohol with a nice meal. Can you imagine a similar fad forming around grape juice...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/why_wine_or_the_wine_industry_is_a_scam.php Let CW market your blog- December 27, 2007 So we have been doing that for some time - adding blogs to the network but nobody really know that we were doing that with EXISTING blogs. I outlined that a little here. In a nutshell - why should you think about it Simply - It&39;s more fun together, less hassle and often more money for you. We pay for all services surrounding your blog. You &39;just&39; blog - we do not interfere with what you write at all. Also we help you to make your blog even more famous and after &39;the lease&39; is.http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/let_cw_market_your_blog.php kayak and sidestep merge- December 21, 2007 Surprising move by the two largest travel meta-search engines - they become one! Ken Schachter at Redherring comments: Travel search engine Kayak.com has pulled down $196 million in one of the largest venture rounds of 2007 to acquire rival SideStep, the companies announced Friday. The financing round was led by prior investor Sequoia Capital, whose partner, Michael Moritz, will join the Kayak.com board of directors. Also, participating were previous Kayak investors General Catalyst Partners.http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/kayak_and_sidestep_merge.php investments in online retailers- December 20, 2007 This has been an area of extreme caution in the past 5 years but seems specialized retailers with a social networking spin are back on track convincing VCs as Tornado Insider reports: dress-for-less, a German online designer fashion outlet, received an investment from Palamon Capital Partners. dress-for-less.com specializes in fashionable, reasonably priced designer and branded goods. The company buys its items from overproduction, remains and end-of-season stock. The product range comprises...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/investments_in_online_retailers.php Why is there no Paycycle for every business service and country- December 17, 2007 I remember from starting newtron in 1999 in Germany trotting over to our payroll service consultant every month and duly reporting changes in the HR roster and receiving a roster of paper slips. After that several electronic transfers had to be taken to send taxes, salaries and other contributions to the respective accounts. Even after some optimizations it would takle a day to complete. Enter 2005 and Paycycle here in Palo Alto, CA. We set up our Payrolls with them for almost two years now..http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/why_is_there_no_paycycle_for_every_business_service_and_co... Online Document Sharing Sites- December 17, 2007 Content Sharing sites have seen a boom not only since the Youtube mega-deal. The basic economics work like that: - We build a feature rich site where users can upload A, B, C - We add social networking - We let users include contents in their blogs or own social networking sites - We make some marketing - We optimize SEO - We put Google (and other ads) in the pages and wait until it catches steam. OK maybe it&39;s not that simple :) Tal Siach, the founder of Docstoc.com recently mailed.http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/online_document_sharing_sites.php The Richter Scale- December 6, 2007 So there is no such thing as a new bubble Maybe, maybe not - but this is a really cool video about it. Welcome to the Silicon Valley 2007! See full article. Related Entries: NRW-Schulministerin plant Schler als Richter - 21 Dezember 2006 Step off the scale - 27 February 2007 Connect in Silicon Valley - 20 June 2007 How Big Was That Last Earthquake - 07 November 2007 33. Americas Cup: Richter Cahn wieder am Zug - 16 Januar 2008 Contents of this feed are a property of Creative...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/the_richter_scale.php Building an ad network- December 3, 2007 We are busy behind the scenes here building the CW ad network. It&39;s still in alpha mode and we are figuring out some of the nuts and bolts there but we have some sites that already run some campaigns successfully. We believe we can provide a very relevant service to the blogging community: - deliver great revenue to successful blogs (but not yet mega blogs) - provide a simple but full fledged ad server to blogs that have so far shied away from that investment for FREE If you are...http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/building_an_ad_network.php SixApart to sell Livejournal- December 3, 2007 SixApart cashes in on one of its assets: The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart&39;s sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. The financial terms aren&39;t being disclosed. SUP, which already been running LiveJournal in Russia as part of a licensing agreement, plans to set up a new company in San Francisco to steer LiveJournal&39;s global growth. "We are very much a &39;rest-of-the-world&39; company," said Andrew Paulson, SUP&39;s..http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/sixapart_to_sell_livejournal.php |