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This story was contributed to VentureBeat by Paul Grim, a General Partner at venture capital firm SunBridge Partners. Grim blogs on wireless issues at Grim Times.
For the better part of 20 years, Mac lovers fumed in frustration as Apple …
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Paul Grim is a General Partner at venture capital firm SunBridge Partners and blogs on wireless issues at Grim Times.
As an investor, whenever a major consumer electronics launch creates a fuss (especially when it’s from the master himself), I …
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Paul Grim is a General Partner at venture capital firm SunBridge Partners. He submitted this to VentureBeat.
Having survived the Nexus One barrage, it’s clear that many reviewers are missing the implications for wireless carriers and handset makers. They are …
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On Thursday, strategy consulting service Analysys Mason released a report claiming the end is nigh for WiMax wireless technology, and Lord knows I’ve rung that bell a few times (here, here, here, and here). WiMax has been touted as the …
The Federal Communications Commission has kicked off highly-anticipated hearings about the $7.2 billion stimulus package for rural and underserved broadband services. Unsurprisingly, there has been much debate (and no small amount of teeth-gnashing) about how to best invest this chunk …
[Editor's Note: Back in April, venture capitalist Paul Grim painted a somewhat bleak picture of the future of mobile WiMax networks, pointing to Sprint and Clearwire's inability to strike a deal as one of its prime weaknesses. Last week, the …
Things are certainly happening quickly in the wireless industry -- the iPhone has actually lived up to much of the absurd hype that preceded its release.
(Editor’s note: This is an opinion piece by Paul Grim, a General Partner at SunBridge Partners, the US affiliate of Japan-based SunBridge Corporation)
We recently celebrated President Reagan’s famous quotation from twenty years ago, a challenge to a closed …
In addition to the demise of the MENS Club, there were several other interesting insights to be found at the Orlando CTIA conference a few weeks back:
Mobile Broadband is now a three-horse race, but one of them (mobile WiMax) may end up like Barbaro -– a visibly thrilling candidate that tragically crashes and burns in the final round.
[Disclosure: Paul Grim's firm, SunBridge Partners, invested in Eclipse Aviation, and this article is in part to explain why he thought this made sense, despite lots of people who thought he was nuts at the time. With dozens of companies …
