What’s the latest shockwave in the venture capital world? I just caught two great pieces that’ll tell you everything you need to know. Who says VC blogs only serve up a bunch of foo-foo (see this previous post referencing a NY Times piece). The first is a great essay I read this morning on the Always On Network, by Bill Reichert of Garage Technology Ventures: Small is Beautiful: Ecological Imbalance Is Threatening the Venture World. And, yesterday, Bill Burnham had a very insightful post on his blog in the same vein: Are VC Funds Getting Too Big For Their Own Good?. Nuff said! Hey, both Bills, you nail it and you rock…
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One word: Edgeio…or should I say EdgeIO…or edgeIO…or is it edgeio? [Seems to be upper and lowercase challenged.] But it’s all the rage in the blog-o-spherical world lately because somebody said it’s an “Ebay Killer.” No wonder Michael Arrington (the TechCrunch guy) didn’t return my email — he’s been, uh, a little busy lately? And no wonder he didn’t sit in on the presentations at DEMO, but just hung out in the press room. Now we know why! He’s hyping his new play, teamed up with old buddy Keith Teare from RealNames. You’ll remember that as a Web 1.0 company that was going to change everything, but … didn’t … quite … make … it.
Lots of talk out there about this one, and why or why not it will be the next big thing. Whatever, it’s really early-on at this point…. Though they plan to pitch the company formally at one of the next big, buzzy conferences: Esther Dyson’s PC Forum next month at LaCosta (Carlsbad, CA).
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