Vinod.com
Vinod Khosla — one of the VCs from the bubble era and bubble neighborhood I think is still worth listening to… carefully — has started his new, smaller venture firm and he put up some of his presentations. I’d love to have heard his Web 2.0 spiel (download the powerpoint here). Two important slides therein:
NEW-MEDIA USER HABITS
* Clickable everything (use media like web-page; pop-up videos)
* Multi-ported: tv+music+webportal+homework+communications
* Instant messaging: always on friendships
* Remix generation: competitive re-authorship
* Authorship IS Consumption
* Blogs are NEWS
….but the human needs/wants remain the sameTRENDS TO WATCH
* Mobility, mobility, mobility
* Smart mobs, hive minds
* Collaborative action: reviews, ratings, editing, voting,
* Emergent Branding
* Mass Authoring: Blogs, Music, Video,…
* Peer to peer: podcasting, videocasting
* Google changes education?
* Reputation systems (Bloggers, sellers, products…)
* Distributed education, better colleges
* Remote medicine
* RSS & Syndication
[via Umair Haque]
Tags: vc
March 13th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
So does Jarvis wish to retract or amend anything he said on the AT&T story? Surely Jarvis didn’t just read one blog and form his opinion. Surely Jarvis would strive to tell the whole story. Surely a responsible blogger wouldn’t throw the war profiteer tag around carelessly. Surely….
March 13th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Vinod Khosla - the real deal. Savvy and no bluster. a man who needs to be listened to.
March 13th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Surely, if you had some information, you’d link to it, Funny, and I’d be happy to do likewise. And surely, if you had balls, you’d have a name.
As they say about gum in the third grade: Please share.
March 13th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
On Hiveminds
I rather doubt this is what you mean by “hivemind”
(I don’t try to understand, I only hope the tranks arrive in time.)