6 posts and columns on Rich Miner

Android’s Co-Founder: Developers Can Now Afford to Wait on iPhone

in Mobile on July 12, 2011 at 12:52 pm PT

Rich Miner, who helps lead Google’s $100 million-per-year venture capital fund, says that until recently there just weren’t enough Android handsets out there to merit developing first for the operating system he helped create. “That has clearly flipped,” Miner said, speaking Tuesday at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco.
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American Express Tests Another Location-Based Deal Platform: SCVNGR

in Social on May 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT

Companies like Foursquare, and now SCVNGR, are teaming up with American Express to help users redeem deals and get credits when they swipe their credit cards.

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (and Google Exec) Joe Kraus Moves to Google Ventures

in News on November 3, 2009 at 5:14 am PT

Joe Kraus–the longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who sold his most recent start-up, JotSpot, to Google in 2006 and has been a director of product management since–has moved to its Google Ventures unit as a partner, said several sources. Sources added that Kraus is likely to be the first of several well-known appointments at the relatively new venture arm of the search giant.
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Google's Mission: To Organize the World's Start-Ups and Make Them Universally Acquirable

in News on March 31, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz often says that the best time to invest is when people are cowering under their desks. Google appears to have taken that message to heart because it’s launching a new venture fund at a time when the VC industry is busy practicing its duck-for-cover exercises.
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Google’s Mission: To Organize the World’s Start-Ups and Make Them Universally Acquirable

in News on March 31, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz often says that the best time to invest is when people are cowering under their desks. Google appears to have taken that message to heart because it’s launching a new venture fund at a time when the VC industry is busy practicing its duck-for-cover exercises.
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Does Android Dream of Developer Sheep, Redux

in News on October 21, 2008 at 11:02 am PT

With the release of the first device to support Google’s Android mobile operating system less than a day away and a second already in development at Motorola, Google is making good on a promise it made when Android debuted: to make the platform available under a progressive, developer-friendly open-source license.