Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

(aka Zenrob's) personal blog on investments and business development

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Entries from December 2006

Metrics in a widgified world

December 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Hooman Radfar poses this question in response to Keith Teare’s follow-up post on Fred Wilson’s discussion of this “De-portalization” trend:
If you buy the atomization of the web bit, then you are probably on board with the concurrent theme being propagated around the blogosphere - the death of the page view. Folks like Evan Williams, Fred Wilson, […]

Tags: widgets

Snipperoo’s Widget Year in Review

December 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Ivan Pope at Snipperoo writes a great piece looking back on the 2006 year in widgets. I’m flattered to have a mention in his summary of July for a post I wrote on a search engine for widgets, and in August for a review of Widgetbox, and in September for my post on […]

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An octogon for $2 million; a league today worth maybe a billion?

December 11th, 2006 · 3 Comments

My brother and I are huge fans of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). And we’ve been watching a lot of PRIDE and Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC fights on television.
Spike TV’s deal with UFC to air the Ultimate Fighter reality show as well as UFC Unleashed and Ultimate Fight Night Live is a brilliant move to garner […]

Tags: entrepreneurship

Predicting the future of Predictive Markets

December 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Yahoo! is hosting an event around Predictive Markets called confab.yahoo on Wednesday Dec. 13 at  5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at their headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA.  Thanks to Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web for pointing this out, and incidentally, he is looking for a blogger to cover that event.
I thought I’d look at a few predictive markets, […]

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Moved from TypePad to Wordpress

December 8th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve moved my blog from TypePad to Wordpress, though I’ll keep the other blog up for a while, until I get around to moving those articles over to this blog.
Here’s the link to my old blog:
http://zenrob.typepad.com

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