March 19, 2008 | Wednesday
Jeff Nolan: VC, innovator, evangelist
By Jackie Danicki - Blogger in Search Engines |Yahoo |Microsoft |Search Technology |Social Media
Yesterday in Silicon Valley, I had a great lunch with one of the most respected venture capital guys on the planet, Jeff Nolan. (I have never heard anyone speak of Jeff without less than effusive praise, something I cannot say about any other VC round these parts!) After years as an innovator in the enterprise software business, as CEO of Teqlo and exec with SAP, Jeff last year joined RSS market leader Newsgator as a vice president. His Venture Chronicles blog is one of the most closely read in the Valley.
With his deep knowledge and experience in so many areas of the web, I should have predicted that my “swift Q&A” with Jeff would only make me want to ask him more and more questions. In the end, our on-camera conversation ran 15 minutes, which went by all too quickly for me! Below, Jeff talks about search technology, social networking, recommendations, local search, Yahoo and Microsoft, whether this is finally “the year of mobile”, what the iPhone means for the future of the web, whether eBay will offload Skype in the next fortnight, and where he’d put his VC dollars on the web right now. (You will probably get the best audio experience by listening to this one on your headphones; the volume can be controlled at the lower right corner of the video frame.)
Many thanks to Jeff, a very busy guy, for being such a good sport. (Lunch was delicious, too!)
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