Can peer-to-peer grow up?
The latest tech craze needs one hit company to make it valid. The Silicon Valley elite is betting on InfraSearch.
Content: Article | Author: Justin Hibbard | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Distance Learning Market Predictions
VCs drop carry on staff
Article talks about how VCs are treating their admin staff members in wake of the talent crunch.
Content: Article | Author: Matthew A. DeBellis | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: Human Resources, Venture Capital
Lessons of a failed incubator
The collapse of Digital Disrupters may mark the beginning of the great incubator shakeout that pundits have been predicting. But the Chicago-area hatchery’s demise also offers lessons to other troubled incubators, thanks to its founder’s candor about the mistakes that led him to lose nearly $2 million of his own money.
Content: Article | Author: Julie Landry | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Approach incubators with caution
Red Herring looks at business incubators in light of the Aberdeen Group’s ongoing study of the crowded field and its prospects (they say only 30% will succeed).
Content: Article | Author: Julie Landry | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Jeff Bezos
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Management | Industry: Retail
Bill Gates
includes sections on Hardware platforms, Linux, Research, and Flaming the DOJ
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Management | Industry: Software
Academics catch VC bug
article highlights Dot Edu, a new VC firm with its roots in the academic world. Also discusses Information Technology University (ITU) and UniversityAngels.com
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Venture Capital
Venture funding is reinvented
part of Red Herring’s 10 Trends 2000 special, this article talks about the increasing competition among VCs to fund a limited supply of good ideas and teamsand the associated implications and strategies
Content: Article | Author: Peter Rojas | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Venture Capital
Fish or Cut Bait: How green is the Valley?
There’s a huge misconception regarding Silicon Valley and it goes like this: you step off the plane in San Jose, sign up with a dot-com, pop open an umbrella, and t starts raining money. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
The State of VC: Big
discusses VC statistics for 1999 and also the rivalry between VC research firms Venture Economics and Venture One
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring
Can’t a dot-com get a loan?
discusses the issues involved with Internet companies securing debt
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: Finance, IT / Technology / E-Business
Portals Pump Up Mom and Pop
a discussion of new portals targeted at small businesses; discusses 3 types: (1) free e-commerce providers, (2) ‘how to’ and ‘where to’ sites, (3) purchasing sites
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business
An Insider’s Guide to Incubators
gives overview & history, stats, A-Z guide, trends, profiles, etc.
Editor’s Note: probably quite dated by now…
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
The four known high-tech startup failure modes
since high-tech companies frequently fail, it’s useful to study and understand how and why they fail — learning from the failures that surround us becomes the critical evolutionary behavior (slow fail, chasm trap, tornado dive, dead zone)
Content: Article | Author: Geoffrey A. Moore | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
New IPOs: last millennium is hard to beat
RedHerring’s views on the leading sectors of investment opportunity: legacy integrators, linux, content providers, email mgmt, new breed of mutual funds, auctions, and networking
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Market/Investment
Red Herring’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs
RH’s take on the information economy’s boldest innovators
Content: Article | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Red Herring Magazine
Magazine that looks at VC and startup issues.
Editor’s Note: This magazine folded February 28, 2003. Read founder Tony Perkins discusst it at:
Content: Online Resource | Source: Red Herring | Subject: Entrepreneurship
