I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…

I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were two established, albeit still early stage companies, presenting. One company has achieved over $10M in revenue and is cashflow positive in just under 4 years. The second is a venture-backed company seeking additional investments to launch a second generation product line. more…

Intel and startup Numonyx said today they have accomplished a breakthrough in a new kind of memory chip that combines the best features of a variety of memory types. The “phase change memory” has been under research for years and the companies view it as a candidate for the ideal memory chip. If this kind of chip can be manufactured, it can eventually be used in everything electronic from cell phones to servers in data centers. Memory chips need to be fast, dense in terms of storage capacity, and hold their data even when the power is off. more…

Music services are popping up like daisies in October. Not Pirate Bay-style bootleg sites, but licensed services that let you listen to music without worring about being arrested. The latest is JukeFly , a San Jose-based startup originally launched last year, but now revamped to make online playing and sharing of personal playlists easy. I have trouble tracking the differences between JukeFly, blip.fm, GrooveShark, imeem, Facebook Music, MySpace and whatever people are tweeting. more…

Thank you everyone who made it to ArcticEvening Helsinki last night. The evening was a great success and a special thank you for that goes out to the panelists David O’Weger who covered for Ari-Pekka Salovaara from Severa, Michael Falck from Relex as well as Mikko Kaarela from Technopolis Ventures as well as our sponsors for making the event possible in the first place. The evening was started by a little introduction to the BizSpark program by Kim Nielsen, who oversees 14 countries and their development regarding the program itself. more…

The Obama administration has just funded the rollout of 18 million meters with stimulus funds, but here’s another way to get access to energy data without one of those new digital meters: This morning UK energy management startup AlertMe says it has joined up with Google’s energy management tool PowerMeter . AlertMe, which makes the monitoring device and is backed by venture capital firms like Index Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will use PowerMeter to help customers track their energy consumption online in the iGoogle format. more…

October 28, 2009 By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh DialoguesDownload or listen to this lively Fresh Dialogues interview We welcome feedback at FreshDialogues.com, click on the Contact TabThis week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; the fragile economy and why he sees light at the end of the tunnel.On the stock market and VC investing“If you are investing in two people in a garage today, it doesn’t matter what the Dow Jones Industrial Averageis at all…if you say ‘the market is down so I’m not going to invest in a startup today,’ there’s something ass backward about that. more…

Metabolon , a startup focused on biomarker and metabolomics research, has closed on $6 million in new venture funding. more…

Yeah ok it isn’t that Apple Tablet. But this is a picture, taken around 1990, of the Apple Pen Mac, a little known and never launched Apple tablet project. As far as we can tell there is no other image of this device anywhere on the Internet, and very few references to it at all. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime ) with a pen based touch screen. The screen itself was identical to the Mac Portable , but with the addition of pen touch. more…

Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their careers, and then gone on to change the world. In other regions, failure leads to disgrace. But futurist Paul Saffo has said that in the tech-obssessed valley,” the spires of success are built on the rubble of failure.” This religion runs so deep that it now has its own conference, FailCon . more…

reMail , a startup incubated by Y Combinator , has already convinced many email junkies that it offers a better way to store and search their messages than Apple’s built-in iPhone app. The latest version, which just went live in the App Store, helps reMail stand head and shoulders above the native email app — now users can access multiple email accounts, and search all of them from one box. Before this, I liked the fact that reMail stores all your email on phone (meaning you can read it when you don’t have a network connection) and lets you search the full text of the messages. more…