Archive for the 'Silicon Valley' Category

Jun 20 2008

Yahoo’s “Exodus”

There has been much moaning about the departures of really well-known names from Yahoo. Now, I don’t know any of the folks involved, but if you compare all of the criticisms about what Yahoo has not been doing over the part few years in terms of innovating and getting new products out and or [...]

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Jun 05 2008

Who is Gary Krakow? Why is he off his meds?

TheStreet.Com has an add interview with some hilarious tripe about how Apple/Jobs needs to “bite the bullet” and “license WindowsMobile or RIM’s Blackberry” code.
This guy is clearly in need of psychiatric help. Like now. I mean he’s either had a break, or he’s the most transparent and disingenuous shill since Rob [...]

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Sep 20 2007

6th grade Founder lands $6.5M from VCs

Apparently a 6th grader, Arjun Mehta,  in San Jose landed $6.5M in a series A round round led by Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures for his idea of an in-game commerce system called Playspan.
My first reaction is a combination of “Wow… smart kid!” and “Holy crap.. we ARE [...]

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Sep 02 2007

Almost forgot… I got to visit the HP Garage!

We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP’s Archivist Anna Mancini, a private tour during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]

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