Content Matters: Five Questions for Fred Wilson Clipart of bills and coins Image via Wikipedia This creative bit of content is a great read for people planning start-ups it might be titled how to avoid the [soup line] when you start a new Venture ! It was noted on Fred Wilson’s site-http://www.avc.com/ Barry Graubert writes the excellent Content Matters blog and he’s got an interview with me up there today. Fred Wilson Here is one question and my answer: CM: Historically, as the economy comes out of recession, it creates transformation and change. Which segments have the potential for transformation in an eventual recovery? FW: Every industry that is based on knowledge or information or some other form of non-physical matter (atoms vs bits) is going to fundamentally transform and this downturn will be the darwinian forcing function. Think about energy and power systems, banking, media, education. They all have that aspect to them Barry Graubart has spent the past 20 years applying technology to content to develop high value business-to-business information products. Barry today serves as Vice President, Product Strategy & Business Development for Alacra, a leading content technology company, where his focus is on eCommerce and social media applications. Previously, he served as EVP & Chief Marketing Officer for Leadership Directories, a content provider of biographical and organizational data. Prior to Leadership Directories he spent four years in various roles with ClearForest, an emerging leader in the text analytics market. At ClearForest, he helped open the publishing and federal intelligence markets. Previously, he held general management, product development and marketing roles with b2b content businesses including divisions of Primedia, Nelson Information (now Thomson Financial), Kaplan/Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers. Barry holds a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Albany. Barry sits on the Board of Directors of the Content Division of the Software

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It’s About People, Not Technology Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun... Image via CrunchBase Finally some one has discussed Twitter as more than a toy ! I don’t read newspapers any more and only watch a few things on Pb-Yes ! I do download Ritmo Latino from NRP so if I get a tweet that interest’s me ! It is of value-I am not a teche but have gotten some info from a few on Twitter and It was of great value when I had trouble with my internet service and contacted Frank Eliason of Comcast Cares-

Making Something From Nothing This may be on of the best post’s of the new year ! From Mr Fred Wilson “That’s a fundamental difference and we cannot ever lose sight of this fact. Nothing costs nothing. We don’t have to pay for our ideas, imagination, and hard work we put into turning nothing into something. Well to be exact, the entrepreneur doesn’t have to pay for any of those things. The VC does pay for those things and gets a piece of the ride from nothing to something as a result.!” January 1, 2009 Fred Wilson Add to it this look up article from Dave Winer on helping friend feed http://www.scripting.com/ In one of my reblogs I added some thoughts regarding giving free help to Friendfeed Mr Wilson says it better nothing cost’s nothing ! Me below ! “Or better yet have the Executives at Friend Feed follow the folks at Adaptive Blue these people have developed an application for all of us and they will succeed. http://www.adaptiveblue.com/!” Msandler Making Something From Nothing.

Fred Wilson Dot VC Mr Wilson takes us to the world of the Supernatural with Ghostery http://www.ghostery.com/ ?

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