April 2008
Wesabe Steps Out
Over a year ago when we first started thinking about personal financial management tools on the web, I had this OMG moment when I realized that a web based personal financial management service was going to be way more disruptive... [Read More]
April 24, 2008 02:20 PM, By Brad Burnham
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AB Meta
Over the last two years, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue has become known for its ability to automatically recognize things like books, movies, stocks, and wines on the web. By using semantic analysis to figure out the difference between The... [Read More]
April 21, 2008 09:29 PM, By Brad Burnham
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This is Nuts
Yesterday the New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece that led with the collapse of the effort to create a hand-held device for managing the 2010 census. The latest problem is the Census Bureau’s failure— after nearly four years and... [Read More]
April 10, 2008 07:02 PM, By Brad Burnham
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I (May) Have a New Platform
Google has unveiled App Engine and unlike some other recent Google efforts this one feels fully baked and well thought-out. For starters it includes all the elements that I had identified in my post calling for a new platform, such... [Read More]
April 8, 2008 09:44 AM, By Albert Wenger
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Covestor
Access to financial markets is fairly open. All it takes is a bit of money to set up a brokerage account and one can start buying stocks. Over the last decade the Internet has further opened up access by letting... [Read More]
April 6, 2008 10:55 PM, By Albert Wenger
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