Summer Fun – Rant Redux #1
It seems only fair that while I’m off enjoying a (Southern Hemisphere) summer road trip, I should continue to provide my readers with some thoughts. I figured seeing I’ll be a million miles from anywhere, and unable to access decent connectivity, that a series of my ranty-est posts, with some new rants thrown in for [...]
Crunchpad Make Over – How Appropriate: JooJoo equals Bad Karma
The Crunchpad under an alternative alias/name from Fusion Garage made its debut this morning, under the appropriately named JooJoo. JooJoo in the urban dictionary means “bad karma” or bad luck. Being part of the Monday Morning Drama – Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan showed off the new JooJoo system that is the Crunchpad as originally [...]
Beyond the end of the Crunchpad
Many people with much dismay were surprised to see an entry from Michael Arrington about the end of the Crunchpad. With the aftermath of this, the real question is who is ever going to do business with Fusion Garage in the future? Shareholders aside deciding to do something against the desire/wish/ability of a partner when [...]
The Emotional Investment of FriendFeed
Johnny Worthington who is one of the more dynamic and interesting people on FriendFeed issued an open letter to the developers of FriendFeed to find out what is happening with the web site. Many of the FriendFeed users (myself included) have an emotional and time investment in the system that is not easily replaced or [...]
Crunchpad Hitting the Market by the End of 2009?
In what we pray is not another view into vaporware hardware, rumors are abounding this morning that the much anticipated Crunchpad will be available by the end of 2009. This is definitely a hope and pray issue as we have seen this rumor before in July, August, September and now October. The only sure guarantee [...]
VCs Are Useless? That's Bullshit.
Vivek Wadhwa has a guest post up on TechCrunch, “What Have VCs Really Done For Innovation?” It’s obviously meant to court controversy. Mission accomplished. This post is my refutation. Wadhwa’s post claims: VCs have little to no impact on startup success, and in fact, may have a negative impact Venture capital slows the innovation process [...]
Blog Storm Rising on a Lazy Sunday (What Have VCs Really Done…)
We devote a lot of attention to Startups here @ CloudAve, and it’s no secret that some of us, e.g. Ben and myself are infatuated by the bootstrapping model: going out on one’s own, risking one’s own financial well-being, but then reaping the rewards without having giving up control and major equity. As in .. [...]
A TechCrunch Mention Isn't a Go-To-Market Strategy (Except When It Is)
First a disclaimer – this post isn’t intended in any way to start a flame war with the mega blogs out there. Hell, in the past I’ve written for ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington is a good buddy of mine (he must be, we’re Facebook friends!) Rather it’s a plea for startups to really [...]
Don’t Drink Your Own Kool-Aid (Surviving TC50)
This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons” Tonight I was reading a good blog post (here) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that [...]
Sarah Lacy Pans a Nation, Self-Importance Anyone?
Update – things here have gotten really out of hand with commenters threatening violence against Sarah for what she wrote. Let me clarify – while I disagree with what Sarah said, I absolutely find the threats abhorent and an insult to not only Sarah and the TC crew, but also the freedom of the media [...]
The Rise and Fall of Blognation: Follow up
It’s an interesting day in the ongoing saga of Blognation, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington. While I have written about this in the past, there is one final chapter in this story, and that is the default judgment in a UK court against Michael Arrington. I will have to add this to the story of [...]
On Libel, Blognation, TechCrunch, TechMeme and Apple – How they All Come Together
If you expect a juicy post on the Sam Sethi vs. TechCrunch / Mike Arrington lawsuit, you’ve come to the wrong place. I have no desire to dig deep into it, nor do I want to be exposed to lawsuits myself… but there is something ironic in how TechMeme juxtaposed several news items today… but [...]
CrunchPad, Netbooks and Vacuum Cleaners
We covered the CrunchPad a fair bit here, so it’s only natural to report it’s inching closer to Launch. Or is it rather slipping? The Straits Times visited Fusion Garage, the Singapore-based company that’s developing the CrunchPad, and published details. It’s now expected to hit the market in November, just in time for Christmas shopping. [...]
Twitter Hack Exposes Internal Company Documents
While there are issues with publishing information that someone got via a hacking attack, often at times the information can be useful in many ways. Over the weekend Techcrunch was sent an unsolicited e-mail from a hacker that contained over 300 internal Twitter documents, and an explanation on how the various accounts was hacked. Techcrunch [...]
Enterprise 2.0 – A Reflection
Spending a week in Boston at the Enterprise 2.0 conference recently was great. Despite the plethora of channels open to us today (at the moment I have email, Twitter, IM and voice open in front of me) there is no replacement for face to face contact. This is never more so than for someone like [...]
