Comments for Oded Ran: Tech Chutzpah

Comment on Is Mobile the Graveyard of VC money? by Marek Pawlowski

Marek Pawlowski — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:18:27 +0000

You’re right…there haven’t been many major exits for VCs in the consumer-facing mobile services area. Perhaps this is because mobile-specific services are not an end in themselves from the consumer perspective, but part of a wider user experience?

You could, however, argue that things like eBay, Facebook, Youtube etc… are actually ‘mobile’ services because so much of their access/content now comes from mobile devices. Perhaps consumer-facing companies which have tightly integrated mobile capabilities, but also span many digital channels are most likely going to produce the biggest exits?

It is, however, a different story if you look at the business-facing, supply side of the mobile industry. There have been lots of USD 100m+ exits for VCs in this area.

This serves as a reminder that most of the value in mobile has traditionally gone to the operators and handset manufacturers, hence the higher exits for companies which help those two sectors to deliver on their strategic objectives.

Comment on Flight Simulator no more? by Amusitronix

Amusitronix — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:54:27 +0000

Have you tried flight simulators at an event? Pretty powerful stuff!

Comment on GapMinder.org has a great tool for analyzing and presenting data by gilka

gilka — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:22:26 +0000

I agree, TED talks are amazing!
Have you seen the one with Dan Ariely?

Comment on The best pitch presentation around by Dick Hardt joins Microsoft « Oded Ran: Triple T-Blog

Dick Hardt joins Microsoft « Oded Ran: Triple T-Blog — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:30:13 +0000

[...] 13, 2008 by odedran I wrote about Dick Hardt last April and later updated when his company, Sxip, closed [...]

Comment on Geni is almost two years old, but still no way to delete your account by odedran

odedran — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:15:34 +0000

That’s good news for users, thanks Noah for the update!

Comment on Geni is almost two years old, but still no way to delete your account by Noah

Noah — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:23:49 +0000

Hi Oded Ran,

Thanks for being a Geni User. Funny you should mention this, we were just discussing this very feature earlier this week. I expect that you’ll see this soon. In the meantime, as you said, we do process account closure requests manually and (hopefully) painlessly!

-Noah
Geni.com