Tech and Entrepreneurs: Changing of the Guard
By Azam on October 12, 2011 Add a CommentVenture Capital was a small world in the earlier period of venture funding. Large families like Rockefellers started their private funds through into highly risky ventures. The East coast and Boston was the center of venture investing largely Boston area…
Continue Reading...MakerBot Enables You to Make Something
By Azam on October 7, 2011 Add a Comment![]()
MakerBot’s Thing-O-Matic ‘prints’ in 3D by building up layers of plastic. Photograph: David Neff
MakerBot is a revolutionary 3D printing machine that allows users to design physical products. MakeBot is making 3D printing and design affordable and will unleash the creative…
Continue Reading...Quirky Social Crowd Making Products
By Azam on October 3, 2011 Add a CommentQuirky is a very smart business model that engages the crowd to produce products that other may want. Quirky takes advantage of the community based development of product to test, produce, and market. Besides selling directly to consumers the company…
Continue Reading...Greplin Grabs Your Personal Content
By Azam on September 23, 2011 Add a CommentA few years ago, Daniel Gross was on his way to a party in his native Israel when he pulled out his smartphone to look up the address. The invitation could have been buried in his e-mail, on Facebook, or…
Continue Reading...Make More Kabbage Online
By Azam on August 26, 2011 Add a CommentKabbage provides financing to allow merchants buy inventory by innovative techniques to analyze credit based on metrics determined by social media and gaming. Kabbage uses a variety of metrics as ranking sellers, on time delivery, and other metrics related to…
Continue Reading...Ness Being More Subjective on Search
By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a CommentNess is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.
The Alsop-incubated company is…
Continue Reading...BitCoin the New Currency
By Azam on June 10, 2011 Add a CommentBitCoin is the ultimate currency in the modern and well connected world. BitCoin has recently been in the spotlight to news of being tied to the nefarious purposes. The growing interest in the currency offers a real the validation on…
Continue Reading...Social Networking Falling Under the Influence of Others
By Azam on June 6, 2011 Add a Comment
Social Networking is a powerful tool in sharing and decimating information across a network. I have been thinking on this idea for some time from telecom to statecraft. In telecom, networks are geared towards passing data to nodes and the…
Continue Reading...Groupon is a lot like Group Sex
By Azam on June 3, 2011 Add a CommentEveryone wants to have some fun at first and things get too messy and ultimately you are disappointed. You do not want to let others know you caught up there in between all of it. Groupon was fun in the beginning…
Continue Reading...Mobile Payment is Getting Very Near
By Azam on May 24, 2011 Add a Comment![]()
Google and Sprint set to announce today the launch of mobile payment using Near Field Technology. The market for mobile payment is heating up with launch of NFC technology and commercial availability. The mobile payment service requires a NFC semi…








