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Re: Do accelerators help startups? Here’s what we found | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Shalin Sheth, Second Century Ventures

Edward Daciuk — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:07:43 -0000

How do you know if you are finding that accelerators add value or are just a good indicator of good companies?

Re: Welcome to MicroKia: Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices and services biz for $7.2B

Edward Daciuk — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:04:45 -0000

I think a better moniker mashup than MicroKia would be Nosoft.

Re: At $2.9bn/yr apps are challenging songs as the most valuable online medium

Edward Daciuk — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:09:10 -0000

Where is the data for your analysis coming from? Just curious. Also at what point do you think app downloads starts to encroach on the consumer software market which is fairly large but hasn't yet migrated to app stores?

Re: Let's Compare Mobile Media Stores - BusinessWeek

Edward Daciuk — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:14:52 -0000

Aren't you leaving out Google? They are homing in on mobile OS parity and have a nascent but growing media offering, and they have a trump card in 300 million monthly UVs at YouTube.

Re: Quantifying the phobia of owning Apple shares

Edward Daciuk — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:40:19 -0000

I may be missing something. Can't one simply chalk this up to the market saying past growth is not indicative of future growth, i.e. growth will slow. Isn't the main question: Apple rode the smartphone trend nicely but Android is blunting it in a way that will eventually makes its way to Apple's margins. So what's next? And right now the next $100 billion market is unclear. There are some obvious yet murky ones: tablets, emerging markets, enterprise, etc. But there's no clear massive play at work to sustain the current PEG calculation.

Re: Why A Grenade Needs To Get Thrown At Me

Edward Daciuk — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:23:03 -0000

I think he was being funny but you never know...

Re: Apple's blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it, the Street blew it - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech

Edward Daciuk — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:32:11 -0000

Anyway to get Trefis (www.trefis.com) on your list? We cover a bunch of companies including Apple of course.

Re: If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough

Edward Daciuk — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:23:22 -0000

Good quote. This is almost as good as the other quote that I use by you. We were in a meeting and you said that if you didn't miss the occasional flight you were wasting too much time (or something to that effect). Still love quoting that one.

Re: In Search of Corporation 2.0

Edward Daciuk — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:57:11 -0000

Good post Roger but I think there are spots that need a deeper look.

- How do you know the difference between creative destruction and style drift. They both start with the good intent of taking the long view and one can easily be the other without Monday morning quarterbacking. For example, it seems like a lot of actions that Microsoft took are billion dollar shots at creative destruction (timid and non-destructive as they might have been) that really turned out to be style drift because they didn't really have competent teams, they had a monopoly.
- I understand and largely agree with don't diversify, investors can do it cheaper so pay out profits. But the counterargument is that investors can't leverage monopolies and technology to dominate adjacent industries by simply buying and selling stocks. When is one better than the other?
- Similarly, paying out profits and taking the long view can be dichotomies that are hard to distinguish without Monday morning quarterbacking. How do you know the difference as you look at the future of your uncertain, multivariate market whether you should milk the cash cow or plow funds into creative destruction?

Re: "I had a talented wine" - Picking up the new car (bus?truck? it carries a...

Edward Daciuk — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:53:56 -0000

What are you getting?

Re: Entrepreneurs 1 - Patent Trolls 0

Edward Daciuk — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:58:44 -0000

Darn. I guess it doesn't bode well for my business method patents:

- Business process of selecting a good location for retail store
- Method for using the color red to indicate a sale online
- Method for the phrase "Thanks" in communications to customers following a sale

Guess I'll have to fall back on actually building a business.

Re: Media Uptick Rule?

Edward Daciuk — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:45:55 -0000

Excellent, excellent comment. This is a psychological game. Same as if we were storming Normandy, everyone needs to pitch in and help turn this thing around. And in this networked world the media is a huge influencer of the outcome. More realistically than banning free speech, what if the Fed asked for the help of not just Congress, but the owners of these huge media conglomerates. We all know they can influence what gets broadcast.

Re: WebEx Does Not Work On Macs

Edward Daciuk — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:14:29 -0000

you might want to check out adobe connect. Haven't used it myself but it's flash based.

Re: What’s The Safest Seat On An Airplane?

Edward Daciuk — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:17:21 -0000

On the one hand this seems intuitive since I would think most crashes would be nose down. On the other hand most airplane disaster movies I've seen have that part where the back of the plane gets ripped off and some poor guy (usually the annoying guy who harassed the flight attendant) flies out the back still strapped to his seat. Hmm...

Re: Sales vs. Web Dude

Edward Daciuk — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:54:17 -0000

Hilarious!