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Reforming venture capitalism

by David Saad, September 21, 2008 | Comments (20)

by David Saad, August 31, 2008 | Comments (6)

	In search of a cleaner greener online world Three weeks ago, I was moderating a session at the Digital Hollywood Building Blocks conference in San Jose. I took the time to check out the exhibitors and I attended few sessions. From a consumer's viewpoint, my assessment was that the online advertising industry seems to look good from far, but far from good. On one hand, a lot of ...
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by David Saad, August 25, 2008 | Comments (6)

	Don’t leave it to beaver As the web grows with more content, more contributors, and more entrepreneurs with more inventions, visibility and traction will become increasingly more difficult to achieve. Whether it is a new product that you are launching, a new article that you are publishing, or a new pitch that you are posting, things rarely take off on their own, and if they ...
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by David Saad, July 21, 2008 | Comments (6)

	But who Cares, Eat It Have you noticed how quickly high-tech industry insiders, including opportunistic entrepreneurs such as myself admittedly, rush to adopt the next "next thing" without truly analyzing its merit?!!! This behavior is caused by the desire to exploit the new "thing", to be the first to market even though it is often more of a disadvantage, and to claim notoriety. ...
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by David Saad, July 19, 2008 | Comments (4)

	Just say "No" quickly and nicely In response to John Shinal's article entitled A VC on saying "no" and the "courtesy-proof" firm, I thought it might be helpful to, not expose, but re-expose some VCs to the art of rejection - assuming of course that any VC would have mastered it upon initiation, but could have forgotten it due to all the commotion caused by entrepreneurs. ...
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by David Saad, July 14, 2008 | Comments (5)

	Fee, if any, must be contingent on funding A couple of months ago, I wrote a story entitled "From Skeptic to Evangelist on Keiretsu Forum". As promised, I am now reporting back to you the result of my experience with Keiretsu. Unfortunately, I am back to being skeptic. After having been screened (no fee at this stage), the officials at Keiretsu gave me the good news that ...
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by David Saad, May 28, 2008 | Comments (2)

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