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Summer of Sam

nborgis — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:25 +0000

Right now I am rather busy at work, hence my non-existent blog posts. Still, I thought I should spend some time to share the latest update from Capital Finance on the French venture market. Last summer was all about the subprime crisis and there is a fair chance that this is not quite over… too many [...]

Back to earth

nborgis — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:01:49 +0000

It has been exactly one month since I last did a post here. Back from holiday today I cannot resist a short note on the financing of innovation and private equity in general. Capital Finance gave on July, 9th the following 3-year investment trends for Limited Partners in private equity. Interestingly enough venture and buy-out are mostly [...]

Thought leadership by design

nborgis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:04:50 +0000

Just a quickie to share with you a book I stumbled onto and find rather insightful: “Thought Leadership by Design”. I will order a few of those and distribute them to all my business contacts… it is, as they claim one of those “no-frills” books I like. You can actually read it and it is actually [...]

Microsoft Surface: accidental hit?

nborgis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:18:35 +0000

A lot has been said already about Surface, the killer UI making “Minority Report” look like “Driving Miss Daisy”. A video from the application to be found at the Caesars’ Palace can be found here, and Manuel Diaz posted a very complete video on the .Gr blog. Following the analysts’ meetings and our FY07 results, the [...]

Windows Live QuickApps: register NOW!

nborgis — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:41:45 +0000

The Windows Live Quick Application program has been launched following the Worldwide Partner Conference to minimize the learning curve of Windows Live services and technologies. If you are even remotely interested in web technologies I think you should take a close look at these applications and join the program as it will provide you with [...]

Outinnovating on the web

nborgis — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:47:25 +0000

This is the financial results period in the US and yesterday both Yahoo and eBay reported their earnings which generated disappointment as their stellar growth rates and cocaine-like margins are slowly falling victim of gravity. In yet another good article, Richard Waters, the Information Industries Editor for the Financial Times, explains why the web behemoths [...]

Venture Capital life prognosis

nborgis — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:05:26 +0000

Just a quick note to share this good paper found on Wired about pressures facing the Venture Capital industry and its limited returns (on average that is; if you only backed NSCP, YHOO and GOOG you’re good!) My take on this one is that as soon as the first major failure hits the fan with PE leveraged [...]

Nike Pulsing Back in Shape

nborgis — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:41:13 +0000

I talked earlier about RG/A and the Nike+ concept. Well, I decided to use it myself and after close to two sportless years (this is what happens when you have kids!) I went back to running using a beautiful iPod Nano (Red) coupled with the Nike+ sensor. I decided against changing my Adidas running shoes which are [...]

Burn baby, burn!

nborgis — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:52:49 +0000

Just a quickie to let you faithful readers know that I have decided to burn my feed at FeedBurner. The result should be much more RSS reader friendly, therefore I strongly encourage you to update your feed settings and point to this one. Keep tuned for more announcement as the Microsoft Global Exchange Summit (aka. MGX) [...]

Microsoft Surface @ Caesars Palace

nborgis — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:55:10 +0000

I managed to get one of the product managers from Microsoft Surface to do a quick demo of how the table will be used at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It is interesting and a good complement to other videos you can find on the web. The table price point is currently set around $10k [...]