Today, Somesso started and the 10 startups that were selected are listed here via the Somesso blog. Have a look and you can see where innvovation starts! Happy to see that three out of 10 are run by women. Yes we always have to point that out! And one of our very favorite companies, Zemanta is presenting. As you can see from this entry, we already use Zemanta - a great company with a killer team that wants to make blogging more relevant, personal and just awesome.
We skipped Day 3 – it was too easy – actually Day 3 was the ink party and that means Top 10 Hot Men list – which is now down to 15 -so we are still reducing that list… stay tuned. But Day 4 – well Day 4 took us away from IBC and over to London where I was at Seedcamp which starts tomorrow and one of my favorite entrepreneurs on the planet. I had the good fortune to spend an evening with Andrej Nabergoj, founder of Noovo and got a first hand tutorial over mojitos on Noovo. Now, before you say to me that you can’t take another social networking site I say to you – I agree. But how about a gathering place where you can in a true sense gather, post and share content from the Web that actually grows a new pool of content. It is so cool i can’t contain myself… that combined with the innovation from Zemanta which you all know is my ALL TIME FAVORITE bloggers tool – apparently they have a big announcement coming out on Thursday — I heard about it at the bar, but promised not to say anything….
Long title. But here is a rant: The CEO of Yahoo said hey guys ‘No, I think I don’t want to sell” That was it. Period. Commentators and opinon makers are saying that in 3 to 5 years from now it will just be Microsoft or Google and that Yahoo will go the way of AOL – carved up and divided into tiny composite pieces.
So stock market reactions to technology companies, have in the past decade been a knee- jerk reaction to the tech bubble of 2001. Because there is no “there” there. There is no invetory, nothing to sell. The problem is not with Yahoo its with the market and the way that Wall Street values internet companies.