Note: Cooliris announced on October 20 that it has partnered with AOL to bring the AdJitsu Immersive 3D Ads platform to Editions by AOL, a free daily magazine for the iPad .
We use the word “immersive” rather loosely when we talk about Web-based 3D content. Instinctively, [...]
Continue Reading →You no doubt know Guidewire Group as an analyst firm committed tot he success of early-stage technology companies. Indeed, when we started the company in 2004, our goal was to accelerate emerging businesses and emerging markets around the world. Across the years, we’ve consulted with startups and large companies, produced programs and events that bring [...]
Continue Reading →It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur. It seems like everywhere you turn, someone, some organization, some company is throwing a party in honor of the starters.
This summer’s newest event is the International Startup Festival (www.startupfestival.com), to be held July 13-15 in beautiful Montreal. The two-day conference focuses on [...]
Continue Reading →A couple weeks ago, I was under a bit of pressure to deliver a draft of my presentation for Innovate Columbus, which is going on today at Ohio State University. I was invited to do a design lab exploring Columbus as an Innovation Ecosystem with Prezi CMO Continue Reading →
“Live” television builds in a seven-second delay to give censors the chance to bleep the seven dirty words you can’t say on TV. Sometimes, “real-time” Web applications feel a little like that, except that the dirty words get through. Which is to say that the “L” in Live Web might as well stand for “latency.”
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Continue Reading →Oy. My head is about to explode. I’m here at the Innovate Columbus event listening to a panel that had such wonderful potential. David Pogue of the New York Times (and an incredibly funny moderator), Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of Prodea Systems and the first private woman space tourist, and Sarah Lacy, the [...]
Continue Reading →This afternoon, Guidewire Group received news that we have been awarded a SBIR Phase II Grant from the National Science Foundation.
The award follows the Phase I grant we received in early 2010 to validate and deploy the G/SCORE ™ Startup Assessment Methodology for measuring and benchmarking early stage companies. This follow-on grant [...]
Continue Reading →Surely you know the story of the Shoemaker’s Children. The old chap was so busy crafting footwear for his customers that his own progeny went barefoot.
Sometimes, it feels that way around Guidewire Group. Even as we advise startups on their strategy and admonish them to market effectively, we ourselves struggle to keep up appearances. [...]
Continue Reading →The Innovate!2010 Summit is the culmination of our year-long quest to identify the most promising startups around the world. Set for November 30 through December 2 in historic Zaragoza, Spain, the Summit combines a day and a half of intensive workshops followed by the ultimate Pitch Slam event where winning startups from local events [...]
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