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Betaworks' Borthwick on The Web of Things

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:01:00 GMT

Few people understand the Internet and how it is evolving as well as John Borthwick, the co-founder of Betaworks whose THINK/ Musings blog is food for the Internet intelligensia. One of the many online phenomena he articulated early and well is the real-time Web, or what he called originally The Now Web. These days, Borthwick is contemplating the next stage of the Internet's development, the Web of Things. To dip into these heady issues, The Deal caught up with Borthwick earlier this month at Shake Shack II, an informal gathering of 300 of the smartest folks on the New York tech scene. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes. For more on Borthwick, the Now Web and the Web of Things, read below the video. -- Mary Kathleen Flynn

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Sam Lessin on Drop.io and the "real-time Web"

Thu, 14 May 2009 20:16:06 GMT

Drop.io founder and CEO Sam Lessin talks about how his company's file-sharing service takes advantage of the "real-time Web," also known as the "Now Web," in this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money online video show. Drop.io creates online environments, or drops, for people to share videos and other large files privately. Drop.io recently added the ability to share files in real-time and on Thursday, Drop.io added the ability to share presentations. The New York startup has raised $3.9 million from DFJ Gotham Ventures and RRE Ventures. Click here to see Part 1 of our conversation with Sam Lessin, in which he talks about the New York startup community and the sense of kinship among 20- and 30-something entrepreneurs, including Charles Forman (OMGPOP, previously called Iminlikewithyou), Mike Hudack (Blip.tv), Rob Kalin (Etsy Inc.), David Karp (Tumblr Inc.), Charlie O'Donnell (Path101 Inc. and nextNY) and Nate Westheimer (AnyClip and NY Tech Meetup).

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Drop.io founder Sam Lessin on NY startup scene

Wed, 13 May 2009 18:37:06 GMT

Sam Lessin, the 25-year-old founder of drop.io talks about the New York tech startup scene in this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money online video show.

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Behind The Money: FreshmanFund on college savings

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:48:02 GMT

Jason Olim, co-founder and CEO of FreshmanFund Inc., explains how the company's Web site makes it easy for parents, relatives and friends to contribute to 529 College Savings Plans. Unlike many a Web 2.0 startup, FreshmanFund has a built-in revenue stream. The company charges a $2.00 handling fee for gifts. Previously, Olim founded CDNOW Inc. and was its CEO

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A Decade of the Deal: Fred Wilson on 1999's dot com 'casino'

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:02:04 GMT

Fred Wilson on the go-go dot com era.

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Behind The Money: Sometrics measures ad effectiveness on the social Web, says founder Ian Swanson

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:40:00 GMT

In this Behind the Money video interview, Sometrics co-founder and CEO Ian Swanson talks about the trends and about his company's new tools for the social Web, which are aimed at measuring brand perception and advertising effectiveness. Sometrics' backers include The Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners LLC.

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Tim O'Reilly urges Web 2.0 firms to solve real-world problems

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:26:00 GMT

"How can we use this technology to solve real-world problems?," ponders Tim O'Reilly, who coined the term Web 2.0 four years ago when he hosted a San Francisco conference on the topic. "There's been a lot of focus on silly consumer applications, like Facebook throwing sheep," says O'Reilly in a video interview from the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City last week. "Meanwhile we have economic meltdown, global warming, oil price shocks, terrible education in this country, dysfunctional politics," says O'Reilly. "What are we doing as an industry to apply our intelligence to solve these problems? I'd love to see a lot more focus in this community on moving away from more things for people to consume and really tackling the hard problems of the world." O'Reilly points out that the biggest companies in the computer industry began with lofty goals. Microsoft Corp. aimed to put a computer on every desktop, and Google Inc. sought to organize all the information in the world. "Finding a problem that's really hard and really needs solving is the secret to success," says O'Reilly. Check back later for more video interviews from Web 2.0 Expo.

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Fred Wilson: Startups should expect raising VC to get harder, but good ideas will get funded

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:50:00 GMT

"People are going to be more conservative," says venture capitalist Fred Wilson in a video interview with Tech Confidential about the impact of the crisis in the capital markets on the technology industry. "Everyone's going to think harder about writing a check for anything," says Wilson, whose Union Square Ventures backs microblogging firm Twitter Inc. and other Web 2.0 startups. "There are times when people want to take risks and times when people don't want to take risks. Clearly, no one's going to want to take risks right now." For entrepreneurs, that means it will be harder to raise money. But not impossible. "Good ideas are still going to get funded," says Wilson, who squeezed in a quick chat with us at Web 2.0 Expo between giving a presentation and watching one by Maria Thomas, new CEO of his portfolio company Etsy Inc. One major reason Internet companies are less vulnerable today than a decade ago: They cost less than one tenth to operate than they did then. "Most companies back then had million-dollar-a-month burn rates," Wilson says. "Today, Union Square's portfolio companies are spending $50,000 to $70,000 a month, or $600,000 to $700,000 for the whole year. In this environment, that's a much healthier place to be." Check back later for video interviews with conference organizer Tim O'Reilly, the creators of online video show Lonelygirl15 and others.

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