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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Flipping Your Startup 101 — A friend of mine called me yesterday to ask for my opinions on the fact that Meebo just got a few million dollars in funding. For those not in the know, Meebo is an AJAX version of Trillian. And what is Trillian? It's an instant messaging client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Selling your start-up to GYMA — Dare Obasanjo has an interesting post titled Flipping Your Startup 101. Dare references my earlier post Microsoft Will Acquire My Company which explains the logic the big players use when considering the acquisition of a startup.
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michael parekh on IT
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
What matters if you wanna flip your company — Have visions of flipping your company to one of the big companies and making a good paycheck? I know lots of people who do (and even have recommended a few to our M&A guys). — Dare Obasanjo writes about what matters if you wanna do that.
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Incremental Blogger
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The NY Times does it again... Since it makes for an entertaining comparison, I will post the email exchange here for the NY Times email interviews that I do. — This is a previous interview experience with the Times. — This is the column Randall Stross wrote for this Sunday.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
NYTimes Sunday Business or Bloggers. Who has higher standards ? — the more time i spent on my last blog entry, the more it became apparent i wanted to ask this question and see the comments to this blog, and inevitable commentary around the blogosphere and in traditional digital and analog media..
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Is Mark Cuban Missing the Big Picture? — MARK CUBAN is known to many in the sports world as the madcap-billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, the one who relishes every opportunity to defy propriety. Less well known is Mr. Cuban's day job as co-owner, with Todd R. Wagner …
rexblog.com:
Learning from Mark Cuban: The ink isn't dry yet on tomorrow's NY Times, but billionaire blogger Mark Cuban has already posted a reponse on his weblog to a piece critical (or, at least, dubious) of him in the business section of the Times. Among Mark's classic responses is his posting …
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IP Democracy
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
WITH AOL DEAL, GOOGLE MAY GET TO GO PUBLIC AGAIN — Consider: AOL and Yahoo made hay when Google went public. Both owned substantial stakes in Google due to earlier traffic deals, and both cashed out major paydays after GOOG's IPO. — Consider also: The success of Ask Jeeves …
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Michael Bazeley / siliconvalley.com:Google to buy 5 percent of AOL for $1 billion
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Search Engine Journal, InsideGoogle, michael parekh on IT and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Firefox Moves Farther Ahead of the Hunt — The browser that finally broke Microsoft's monopoly just got its first major update. If you haven't switched from Internet Explorer yet, consider Firefox 1.5 your invitation to do so. — Most important among them is a security update mechanism that should solve a common dilemma.
San Francisco Chronicle:
How Google woos the best and brightest — Free cafeteria food, annual ski trips to the Sierra and free laundry are just some of the fringe benefits of working at Google. Getting hired is the trick. — Every month, aspiring workers deluge the popular Mountain View search engine …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Another $250 million for Vonage — By now Vonage was supposed to be on track for an IPO, that would have helped the company raise $400 to $600 million from public markets, and help fight a good fight with cable providers, phone companies and others with VoIP ambitions.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple "sold out" of 1GB iPod shuffle till January — Apple Computer has sold out of its higher-capcity iPod digital music player and doesn't plan to restock until next year, according to a message on its Web site. — The $129 iPod is "Sold out for holiday," Apple said in a message on its online store.
Scripting / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Interop between blogging tools — I've been reading lots of reports about the current TypePad outage, but while the outage is still going on, I don't want to appear to interfere. I remember how awful it was to have popular bloggers jumping on my case when I last had a big outage.
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adfreak
Pete Wright / The secret life of an MS Author:
Motion Le 1600 - second impressions — I posted up my first impressions a while back of my new Motion LE 1600. They were written within hours of receiving the device and understandably had a certain 'new-gadget' excitement factor influencing them. So, how is it now?
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