http://www.voodooventures.com Idea Fuel Blog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:50:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're kicking off Jelly Co-Working here in NOLA tomorrow.  Visit the wiki and sign up.  There'll be wifi, coffee, and who knows, maybe it'll turn into a hurricane party. Come one, come all.  Stay all day, or stop on by.  We'll probably all grab lunch together.  And maybe beers in the ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/08/28/jelly-co-working-whos-in/ There are some cool things going on around here that I wanted to share: Lafayette CampFiber - Saturday, October 4 - As I've mentioned previously, excitement is in the air in Lafayette with the fiber network that is being installed as we speak.  With this as a theme, Geoff Daily has ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/08/21/whats-the-haps/ The dustup between the Demo conference and the TechCrunch 50 conference has spilled over to the NY Times today with some of the  press-friendly accusations coming to the forefront: To Michael Arrington, the elbow-throwing, supercilious founder of the popular Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch, Demo’s business model amounts to “payola.” This coming on ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/08/18/demoing-at-tc50/ I love attending the SXSW Interactive conference every year.  It's my favorite conference of the year, a chance to learn, catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and of course have a great time. Last year I pledged to myself that I would try to get further involved and organize ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/08/12/personal-thoughts-on-outsourcing-or-why-i-need-your-vote-at-sxsw/ I've lived in New Orleans for just six years now, but it feels like a lifetime in internet years when I think about the transformation of high tech in the state during my time here. When I got here, the internet community was shaking off the crash of the dot-coms and ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/07/28/louisiana-20-big-opportunities-happening-right-now/ I came across Dave McClures "Startup Metrics for Pirates" presentation this week from the Foo Camp conference. It really has some great metrics and is highly recommended for anyone starting a web-based business.  You'll learn what you should be tracking, and the conversion funnel approach that I've talked about in the ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/07/24/dave-mcclures-startup-metrics-for-pirates/ Charlie O'Donnell has a good summary of the big lesson from the Twitter - Summize acquisition confirmed today, and how $750,000 in funding helped Summize leap Tweetscan as the leader in the Twitter search space and get to the sale to Twitter. So, when your investor is having this kind of ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/07/15/when-a-little-funding-goes-a-long-way/ Well, maybe.  It's one of two reasons.  Either, he wishes Silicon Alley Reporter had been 8 years later because he was doing all of this blogging stuff before blogging was blogging.  Or, because he wishes Mahalo had been a blog network instead of a semantic search engine. Either way, he's ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/07/12/calacanis-is-out-and-i-know-why/ I've been a fan of Eric Marcoullier since I first added the MyBlogLog widget to this blog a year and a half ago.  He (and his partner Todd) transformed blogs into social networks and Yahoo snapped up the company last year. Eric and I hooked up at SXSW in March to ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/07/03/gnip-internet-infrastructure-gets-a-boost/ Today I came across a blog post by Steve Barsh in which he posted his slide deck from a talk he's gave in SF recently. Flipping through the deck, I came across one of the most straightforward and insightful presentations of the numbers that a VC is basing investment decisions on, ... http://www.voodooventures.com/2008/06/24/vc-magic-ratios-revealed/