Initial Thoughts on GoogleApps Marketplace

Posted by walter.roth on Mar 13, 2010 in Packaging, Startups, SweatInvesting, SweatStart, Workshop Posts | 0 comments Jenn Kho shared her front row access to the Google CampfireOne event last week allowing SweatInvestor to be one of the first sites to report live on Google’s announcement of the GoogleApp Marketplace.  She also wrote an article for AOL’s Dailyfinance entitled: Google Opens Market for Enterprise Apps. In 2010 SweatInvestor plans to slowly build its presence at such events and to...
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Google Launches Apps Marketplace at Campfire Event

Posted by jenn.kho on Mar 9, 2010 in SweatInvesting | 1 comment I’m at the Google Campfire One event at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and the company’s just launched a new marketplace for business app called, simply, Google Apps Marketplace. The idea is that businesses that use Google Apps will get access to far more apps that are then integrated into the same Google Apps interface — and that can work together. Meanwhile,...
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SweatInvestors On Ning

Posted by walter.roth on Nov 24, 2009 in Blog Roll, SweatInvesting, SweatInvestor Distributed Platform, SweatInvestor Profiles | 0 comments I’ve started to consider leveraging the Ning community I started to set up awhile back for SweatInvestor. I’m not sure what role it will play, but I’m impressed with its continued feature enhancements. I originally thought I might make it password protected, but I’m playing around with what the public version might look like. If you’d like to sign up and get...
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SweatInvestor Profile Workshop Post

Posted by walter.roth on Nov 21, 2009 in SweatInvesting, SweatInvestor Profiles, Workshop Posts | 1 comment We are looking to create the simplest way to establish one’s SweatInvestor profile.  Below is the current template that requests an image, summary paragraph and a few bullets under each section header (example profile).  At some point, once we create a few standard topics and formats for SweatInvesting, the SweatInvestor Expertise and Milestones will be more standardized resulting in...
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SweatInvestor Tagline Workshop Post

Posted by walter.roth on Nov 21, 2009 in Sweat Benefits, SweatInvesting, Workshop Posts | 0 comments Goal: Refine the Tagline for SweatInvestors in a meaningful way that reflects the SweatInvestor opportunity at its essence.  Please give feedback to the latest iteration: Board level value creation and compensation; when your portfolio can’t afford to live without it. * Thought process: It may be a bit to complex, but each part of it has meaning. The use of the words “Board...
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Walter R. Roth (SweatInvestor Profile)

Posted by walter.roth on Nov 17, 2009 in SweatInvesting, SweatInvestor Profiles | 0 comments Summary Walter R. Roth has over 10 years of experience founding and funding technology startups, with experience on both sides of the funding table as a venture backed CEO and as an entrepreneur in residence at a Silicon Valley venture capital fund. He has had various roles within executive management, board management, business development, sales, recruiting, product development and marketing...
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