GigaOm Daily provides a live microblog-based newswire, inspired by Dave Winer’s concept of “river of news.” Om has listened to the laments of time-constrained readers and responded with a Twitter-style micro-newswire. This super-simplistic news solution features 15 to 30 short posts daily with editorial inputs from the GigaOm network, which can be received as an RSS or Twitter subscription or as a once-a-day email newsletter.
Looking for a solution to create more findable, search-optimized Web pages? TextDigger’s technology reads your Web page content and generates a semantic profile complete with numerous semantic tags, which produces richer indexing and greater findability. The results are increased revenue from higher inbound traffic and longer sessions.
Hive7’s own CEO & Physicist Max Skibinsky used the Kelly criterion to formulate the optimal startup burn rate.
Max’s math:
p = probability of success
b = payout odds per Kelly
F = funding
V = valuation
M = valuation multiplier on “win”
R = burn rate per time frame
T = time frame units to develop and prove
GigaOM • Oct 10
This is either a brilliant Photoshop job, some canny viral political campaigning, or both: An Xbox 360 gamer playing Burnout Paradise spotted an Obama campaign billboard with a “Paid for by Obama for President” caption as he whizzed by in his [...]
OStatic blogs • Oct 10
While OStatic is dedicated to open source, one of the big attractions with open source applications for many users is that they're free. That's why when we see really outstanding freeware applications--even though they're not open source--we still call them out. In [...]
WebWorkerDaily • Oct 10
Gmail, a staple of our work environment, becomes a little more like “big-boy” IMAP courtesy of Google Labs. Hit the Labs button in your Gmail account and you’ll see a new “Advanced IMAP Controls” function. Enable it and you can begin to [...]
Let's Blog Office • Oct 10
There are many types of binding that can be used to create professional looking bound documents. You should consider the variety of options before choosing the one that best suits you. Your options include bookletmakers, coil and spiral machines, [...]
MindBites the Blog • Oct 10
As my 20th high school reunion approached, I became a little bit uneasy and self-conscious about seeing people from the past. It was helpful that I had previously connected with a few people through Facebook, but I knew that [...]
meeblog • Oct 9
Meebo has almost 50 people and they eat a lot! Do you want to know what we eat? I can tell you because I do the grocery shopping. Most popular: Fig Newton cookies – Regular, fat free, strawberry, [...]
GigaOM » FoundRead • Oct 9
I managed to get ahold of the details of Sequoia's startup meeting that we reported on yesterday. The message wasn't the prettiest, but there was a lot of good advice -- to which all startups should to pay [...]
Goodreads • Oct 8
We just launched a very exciting new feature: now you can add your status for books you are currently reading. Adding your reading progress has been a top requested feature, and we think the implications of this one are huge. [...]
True is a venture firm for early stage entrepreneurs.
Founders of high growth companies deserve partners with experience, creativity and strength.
Our team has directly founded over half a dozen startups and has over seventy years of successful venture capital experience. We like to put that experience to work for our entrepreneurs.
Palo Alto
San Francisco
Northern Virginia