New Fundings:
- Salesnet, a provider of online customer relationship management software, completed a $10 million in fourth-round financing. Phoenix Investment Partners, Prism Venture Partners, and WestAM participated in the round.
- NeoPath Networks, a provider of file management software, said that it has raised $6 million in Series A financing.
- Tell-Eureka, a provider of automation software for call centers, said that it has raised $2 million in Series B.
- Relativity Technologies, a provider of legacy modernization software and services, secured a $6.5 million fifth round of financing. The round included investment from Intel Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, Tall Oaks Capital Partners, Wakefield Group, and Wachovia Strategic Ventures Group.
- Aperto Networks (WiMax) got $20 mil
http://www.silicon.com/networks/broadband/0,39024661,39119003,00.htm
Liquidity:
- Blackboard, a developer of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry, registered for an IPO with a $75 million maximum offering size allowed by filing. The lead underwriter is CS First Boston. Company backers include Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, America Online, Aurora Funds, Carlyle Group, Dell Ventures, Edelson Technology Partners, Harbert Management, Internet Capital Group, Kaplan Ventures, Merrill Lynch KECALP, Microsoft, Morgan Keegan, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Oak Hill Venture Partners, Pearson PLC, RBC Capital Markets, and individuals
- Trigo, a Mayfield investment, is getting acquired by IBM. Details unknown.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/03/08/daily15.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Main Dish:
- Dave Winer is proposing to merge RSS and Atom, but in reading his proposal outline it appears that what he wants is for Atom to support RSS data formats. The low-volume battle that has been simmering in the blogging community over Atom and RSS doesn't appear to be going away.
http://archive.scripting.com/2004/03/09
- and over at Sun, Jonathan Schwartz gave an interview on Sun's plan to support RSS. Apparently, Jonathan is not aware that RSS is NOT an open source project.
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
- Bill Gates is on the road talking about how American universities should be stemming the declining interest in math and science if the U.S. wants to remain a technology leader. I wish I had the blog-proof link to the article, it was really good. Anyone have a link?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C17FF3D5B0C728CDDAA0894DC404482
- a 3.4ghz wireless network designed to compete with DSL
http://www.commsdesign.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18311468
- this is very kewl, HP's new DVD/CD burner will include the ability to use the laser to etch a label on the disc. Looks like bootlegged publishers are going to step up a notch in their ability to deliver a professional looking product to the street corner and trunks of cars.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114592,tk,wb030804x,00.asp
- fighting counterfeit drugs with RFID, the FDA's full report is online
http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/counterfeit/report02_04.html
- Merrill's Hard News of Software report
http://www.cwes01.com/9093/24013/ds/752_3983.pdf
- 6 steps to successful relationship building... the business kind.
http://jstrande.typepad.com/blog/2004/03/6_factors_of_a_.html
- now this is a very small cell phone...
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/10793.shtml
- and Sony-Ericsson has a new lineup of phones for 2004, let's hope they have better RF reception than every SE phone put out to date.
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=806
- Kevin Laws looks at passion-inspired companies and their quest for profits. The example, and it's an obvious one, is TiVo.
http://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2004/000426.html
- there's a really interesting book excerpt in HBR about success and limitations. I'm still digesting it so I'm not going to attempt to summarize
http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=3966&t=career_effectiveness
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