Joe Kraus
Joe Kraus
Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. Currently, Kraus is an Investment Partner on the GV team...
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It is ironic that the Internet is a global phenomenon -- yet if you're not in Silicon Valley, it's really hard to get a sense of the pace and the connections between those companies. So many of the ideas get transferred in hallway conversations, meetings over lunch and the casual interactions of the companies that are proximate.
loves sad town
The town loves us. It's sad that we have to sever that union.
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I'm tired, but I'm having a great time. I think that's sort of the common answer that anybody in Silicon Valley has. I've never had more fun. I've never been more tired!
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I've never seen such a competitive market for talent as in the last six months to a year. And it's funny, you think it can never get any more competitive. And yet the next year it gets that much more competitive.
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Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.
fighting squash innovation
Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.
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So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.