Disqus - Friends of gbh

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

seankelly — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:50:14 -0000

That pretty much happened to me last weekend

Re: Quote Of The Day

seankelly — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:03:59 -0000

It's odd watching fellow party members beat up on each other. In the Westminster system - UK and Australia - this does not happen.

Re: Mahalo Expands Multiprofiles: One Stop For Various Social Networking Sites

seankelly — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:27:38 -0000

I would have thought its pretty obvious what JC's MO for Mahalo is - build it then flip it - for say $500M to one of the B-tier firms. Something about leopards and spots...

Re: Quote Of The Day

seankelly — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:51:39 -0000

What's the bet McCain ask Rudy to join his ticket. Bet they're in discussions right now.

Re: WOW.+Microsoft+Offers+%2444.6+Billion+To+Acquire%26nbsp%3BYahoo

seankelly — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:07:25 -0000

Brilliant!
This will go the way of the TIME AOL merger.
$80 billion will be wiped of the value of the combined operation.
Google and Apple directors will be partying for weeks!!!!!!

Re: Bam! Borg makes Yahoo its bitch.

seankelly — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:50:32 -0000

The past plus the past does not equal the future - classic boardroom folly. Please Yahoo take the money and run.

Finally it might be easy to get some good hires in the Valley.

Re: Yahoo Prepares For A Black Monday

seankelly — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:44:58 -0000

The problem with Y! is that if they turned off the lights - pulled the plug on their services would anyone care?

Re: Why Dell will not bounce back

seankelly — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:25:07 -0000

All the above mentioned is true and I'll add one other thing.

Frigtards that use PC's don't need Moore's Law mandated upgrades to browse Facebook and reply to emails. In fact with storage moving into the clouds they don't need terabytes on the desktop.

Who knew.

Re: Commercial Ready scrapped. Time for a ‘flash’ protest?

seankelly — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:28:17 -0000

My company was weeks from receiving investor funding and applying for a CR grant. Apart from the scarce resources spent with consultants to apply for the grant we now face totally changing the business plan. The component that was going to attract the funding will be scrapped. Jobs that would have been created by the funding will either be overseas outsourced or not undertaken. Short term needs and thinking will replace the intense planning required by the grants and thus inevitably change our product/service offering.

Worse it makes the decision to move the whole operation OS. So instead of the 2 dollars spent here developing talent and supporting the lawyers, accountants and ancillary support industries like design, marketing etc - the one dollar will be exported and spent OS.

The upside is that somewhere a ring road will get funding!!! Winning thinking.

Re: 6 Alternatives To Flickr Now Yahoo Is In Full Control

seankelly — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:01:09 -0000

You may have overlooked the OTHER photo sharing site Facebook?

Re: Huge Google Gmail Enterprise Win

seankelly — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:34:19 -0000

Actually the problem was that the Teachers Union banned the use of email to communicate with student until the had received a "training" budget allocation. Which was not forthcoming at a price of tens of millions. The government basically said to hell with that..............

Re: Huge Google Gmail Enterprise Win

seankelly — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:24:32 -0000

They don't have shared calendars nor file sharing etc - that's another $30M contract.

Re: Bill Gates Jerry Seinfield Microsoft Ad 2

seankelly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:18:33 -0000

Am slightly scratching my head but I think I know where they are headed with this stuff. By having Gates in it they are "personalizing" the company/products. They are trying to connect with the average consumer as they have the enterprise sown up.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

seankelly — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:53:48 -0000

Fred - You have touched of a firestorm with this related post. Having first hand experience inside a higher education institution trying to effect change that acknowledges the above is nothing short of the ultimate in frustration.
There is no easy fix - technology just highlights the nature and extent of the problem.

Re: Huge Google Gmail Enterprise Win

seankelly — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:54 -0000

Re: Huge Google Gmail Enterprise Win

seankelly — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:54 -0000

They don't have shared calendars nor file sharing etc - that's another $30M contract.

Re: First photo of Steve Jobs back at Apple (Via TMZ)

seankelly — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:21:49 -0000

Was wondering how long it would take for a photo to pop up of his holiness.

Re: Ljubljana...who would have thought?

seankelly — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:34:38 -0000

Loved reading your detailed gastronomic experiences. Can "literally" taste the meal!

I have some friends who live there and Ljubljana is very much a well kept secret.

Re: The Ideal First Round Term Sheet

seankelly — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:40:49 -0000

Here here!

Re: What We Can Learn From Mess

seankelly — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:45:37 -0000

Quite a remarkable interview and analysis

Re: Founder Liquidity

seankelly — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:14:39 -0000

What about if the founders were granted a "fee" of say 3-5% of the funds raised much like a spotters fee.

Re: Failure

seankelly — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:10:59 -0000

The key to this is the learning bit. It always gets overlooked.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

seankelly — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:35:42 -0000

Here here!

Re: Comment Length

seankelly — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:56:19 -0000

If twitter is any guide to the atomisation of communications then comments are headed that way as well. Short and sweet!

Re: Want to see real racism?

seankelly — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:12:08 -0000

Good call Duncan.

The add may be tasteless but is has the Australian sense of humour that doesn't quite cut it in the States.