Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption. Backed with a list of angel investors that reads like a who’s who of today’s tech industry — Ron Conway, Aydin Senkut, Mitch Kapor, Dave Morin, Shawn Fanning, Keith Rabois, Max Levchin, Paul Bucheit, Rick Marini, Joshua Schachter, and Mike Arrington’s CrunchFund to name just a few — Wavii is built upon some big ideas, and naturally is going to be greeted with some high expectations. Will it possibly be able to live up to them? In short: Maybe yes, maybe no. But first let’s talk about what exactly it is. Wavii provides a personalized feed of the news and current events that are relevant to you. That’s when Wavii’s magic is meant to start. Here Are The Good Parts Seeing Wavii in action is really impressive. And Here Are The Iffy Parts Will anyone really use it? Paying It Forward To The Open Web?
Startup Professionals Musings From 0 To $1 Billion In Two Years: Instagram’s Rose-Tinted Ride To Glory Even now, it’s still shocking how the remarkably low distribution costs of the web can change a founder’s fate overnight. Many startups are duds, and most grow at a clip that’s just not fast enough to justify an interesting valuation. But once in awhile, a company comes along and just nails it. I met Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger before they were working together. Systrom, meanwhile, had just come off of a year at Nextstop, a travel-oriented startup that had sold to Facebook in a talent acquisition. In early 2010, Systrom was messing around with a few ideas. So Systrom, ever the connoisseur of fine whiskeys, tested an app called Burbn. Users weren’t exactly checking in all the time on Burbn. It was around this time that Krieger, who was ready for change after a year and a half at Meebo, came on board. The pair looked at how users in Burbn’s beta gravitated toward photo-sharing and then studied every single popular app in the photography category.
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Business Incubators What it is: Business incubators are organizations geared toward speeding up the growth and success of startup and early stage companies. They’re often a good path to capital from angel investors, state governments, economic-development coalitions and other investors. The National Business Incubation Association has more than 1,400 members in the United States -- and a total 1,900 members in 60 nations. How it works: Incubators vary in their strategies. Some are located in an actual physical space meant to foster networking among entrepreneurs and their coaches. Others operate on a virtual basis. Incubators sometimes call themselves accelerators instead, often when they’re geared toward jumpstarting businesses that are more developed. Many have potential capital to invest, or links to potential funding sources. Related: Less Time, More Money, Mentoring at Accelerators, Incubators Think hard about whether your business is at a stage where it could benefit from an incubator. Limited Time Offer
Why Mobile Ads in Emerging Markets are the Future [INFOGRAPHIC] There are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers around the world, meaning 77% of the world's population uses a phone. The majority of those users — 3.8 billion or 73% of the group — live in emerging economies. Yet mobile advertising dollars spent around the world do not begin to compete with traditional platforms or Internet ads. As the Internet spreads throughout the developing world, it's arriving on phones before traditional computers. Some 70% of Internet users in Egypt, 59% in India, 57% in South Africa, 50% in Ghana and 44% in Indonesia get online via mobile phones alone. This Jana infographic poses a question for advertisers — how will relevant content be delivered via mobile device? One idea: in Brazil, 74% of mobile users said they would like to receive advertisements in their devices in exchange for voice minutes. Do you have an answer to Jana's question? Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, hadynyah
How To Use Remote Installation Service to Install Windows Server 2003 on Remote Computers This step-by-step article describes how to use Remote Installation Service (RIS) to install Windows Server 2003 on remote computers. You can use RIS to remotely set up new Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computers by using a RIS network shared folder as the source of the Windows Server 2003 files. You can install operating systems on remote boot-enabled client computers. Client computers are connected to the network, and are then started by using a Pre-Boot eXecution Environment (PXE)-capable network adapter or remote boot disk. RIS Hardware Requirements Client Hardware Requirements The following list describes the minimum hardware that is required for RIS client computers: Meet the minimum operating system hardware requirements. Software Requirements Several network services must be active and available for RIS. Prerequisites for Client Installations Make sure that the client computer's network adapter has been set as the primary boot device in the computer BIOS. Set Up RIS
Resource Library - National Business Incubation Association Virtual Currency Is The Next Big Platform Editor’s note: Ari Mir is the co-founder and CEO of virtual currency platform Pocket Change. He also co-founded GumGum.com, the world’s largest in-image ad-network. This week, Mir is attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. My youth was spent jumping turtles, killing 16-bit Nazis, connecting kickflips with manuals and nube tubing. For two decades, selling hard and soft copies of games proved to be a very lucrative business. Virtual goods are purchased with virtual currency, a digital medium of exchange similar to dollars and cents. The advertising industry has already seized the opportunity. Engaging with advertisers won’t be the only way to earn virtual currency. As millions of users begin to build liquidity in a system such as FB Credits or other virtual currency providers it becomes possible to disrupt the trillion dollar mobile payments space. Virtual currency as a mass consumer product may sound far off. [image via flickr/epSos.de]
Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers Wikipedia and all of its related projects are obviously driven by the work of thousands of volunteers. Interestingly, though, while Wikipedia runs on top of an open-source stack, it’s been traditionally very hard for volunteers to help the organization run its sites. Most of that work is currently done by paid employees. For about a year and a half, though, the Wikimedia Foundation – the organization behind Wikipedia and its sister projects – has been quietly working on Wikimedia Labs, a new project based on OpenStack that will allow volunteers to help the Wikimedia team develop, test and deploy changes to the organization’s back-end infrastructure. Wikimedia Labs launched as a closed beta back in October 2011 and is still in closed beta today. To be clear, Wikimedia Labs isn’t so much about developing the Wikipedia software, as about running and improving the infrastructure that keeps massive projects like Wikipedia up and running smoothly. The reasons for this are understandable.
Running A Global Virtual Incubator: 10 Lessons We Have Learned Posted on Tuesday, Dec 17th 2013 Further to my earlier post, Mentoring Startups: 10 Lessons We Have Learned, I want to also go over our learnings through running, what is today, the world’s only global virtual incubation program. 1. Reach & Scalability: We have successfully created a virtual incubation program that entrepreneurs all over the world are using. The self-service curriculum is quite rich now, which makes the program scalable. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I could go on and highlight another 50 things we’ve learned, but for now, these offer a good snapshot.
The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile Editor’s note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. All Khosla Ventures investments, as well as ventures related to Vinod Khosla, are italicized. We are in a whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which I’d more aptly describe as the always/everywhere era, finally, and that means a whole new set of opportunities. What you get as a result are the recent successes in the Internet/mobile space like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zynga, Groupon and others, all of which have reenergized both entrepreneurs and investors. A few will be successful, many will fail, some will be acquired for a piece of technology or for the team (acqui-hires). The post-PC always/everywhere platform will be defined by the many variations of mobile, always available, silent complementary standbys (like home or personal networks and agents) and more. Of course, it is hard to classify any startup into a single category.
Tinychat Now Has 20 Million Registered Users, Hits Profitability Tinychat, the web-based video chat service, just surpassed 20 million users. Founded in 2009, the company has been on a roll lately and is showing some impressive momentum. Just about a year and a half ago, after all, Tinychat only had about one million users. The company’s co-founder Dan Blake also tells us that the site currently sees about 400,000 daily users and signs up about 50,000 new users every day. The average user now spends a good 22 minutes on the site per session. Tinychat allows its users to chat simultaneously with up to 11 of their friends (that is, 12 people can be on camera at the same time. Hitting 20 million registered users wasn’t Tinychat’s only good news today. Tinychat started out as a bootstrapped startup, but just over a year ago, the company raised $1.5 million from a group of investors that included Naval Ravikant, Ashton Kutcher and Sean Combs.